Irresistible Felted Baby Animals: Needle Felted Cuties from Puppies to Pandas (with Actual-Sized Diagrams)

by Sachiko Susa

Overview

"Susa's approach to needle felting will give beginners the know-how to get started, but experienced felters will also appreciate her whimsical designs." —Library Journal

Irresistible Felted Baby Animals shows you how to bring out the playfulness and wide-eyed innocence of sweet young creatures of backyards, barnyards, woodlands and seas from all over the world.This new collection by Sachiko Susa, the author of the bestselling Cute Needle Felted Animals, will appeal to beginners and experienced felters alike.

Learn how to create felted cuties from all walks of life!

• An easy and incredibly cute baby seal, chick or penguin
• Woodland buddies like foxes, bears and raccoons
• Exotic friends from foreign lands like the panda, lion, koala and manul
• Family pets like puppies, kittens, bunnies and hamsters
• And more—18 different animal friends in 30 different poses!

Perfect for beginners and experienced felters alike, the felting projects are presented according to the level of experience required to make them, with detailed step-by-step instructions for each. Actual-size diagrams for the key body parts make it easy to reproduce their sizes and shapes accurately. Active (and sleeping) poses make the figures extremely lifelike and give you a variety of options so you can even assemble a whole litter of cuties!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804856409
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	10/17/2023
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	410,624
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sachiko Susa is a master felter and maker of stuffed toys, specializing in expressive little animals both realistic and novel. Her books have been translated into many languages. She is the author of It's A Small World Felted Friends, Sweet & Simple Felted Animals, Cute Needle Felted Animals and Pompom Pokemon.

Editorial Reviews

09/18/2023

Needle felting designer Susa (Cute Needle Felted Animal Friends) shares an adorable if incomplete guide to creating 20 baby animals with wool felt. Providing a brief overview of tools and materials, Susa notes that she prefers to use felt made by the company Hamanaka (which inconveniently has “limited availability outside of Japan”) and that readers should acquire felting needles, an awl, and craft scissors. A few of the projects, such as the seal pup and Shiba Inu, have step-by-step instructions accompanied by photo illustrations. To make the chick, for example, Susa shows how to roll felt, “punch” it with a needle to “harden the shape,” attach a tiny felt beak, and glue on eyes. Other projects, such as the penguin, raccoon, and lion, omit photo illustrations and instead consist of a list of steps that novice felters will have difficulty following. Patient crafters up for a challenge will find opportunities to learn new techniques, such as creating stripes for the red panda’s tail, but those who haven’t worked with felt before might feel underserved by the lack of tips on working with the medium. This is best suited for experienced felters who can fill in the gaps. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Susa's approach to needle felting will give beginners the know-how to get started, but experienced felters will also appreciate her whimsical designs." —Library Journal

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