WizPick COMPANION Felting Needle Set

With a global colour coding system, Wizpick felting needles are the needle felting needles you can count on to be strong, consistent and accurate.

We have created some sets to help you expand your needle felting horizons and get to know some new needles.

Understanding what the different needles can do only broadens your needle felting knowledge and will allow you to tackle more intricate designs with confidence.

The Companion Needle Set includes:

BROWN: 40 3x3x3 - Use Brown for medium wools, such as Corriedale and Halfbred, and other fibres of similar diameter such as human hair and Hemp, and for fast, early-stage felting of fine wools such as Polworth and Merino, and other fibres of similar diameter such as Alpaca, Silk, and fine manmade fibres such as rayon, Soy silk, and Ingeo if they are being used for the bulk of the project or surface irregularity is not an issue. This needle is not recommended for attaching fine embellishing fibres.

Brown is for:

• Forming depressions
• Preparing wool prior to wet felting
• Quickly adding rough surface textures.

CREAM 40 gauge 2x2x2 barbs Use Cream for early and firming stages of felting for fine wools or for fast deep action with easy penetration on medium wool. The Cream needle works particularly well for Merino when other needles seem to not grip the fibre. This needle tends to bend easily.

Use Cream for:

• when other needles just slip by without catching hold of the fibre.
• very fine fibres like Merino with a high micron count or baby Camel or Cashmire.
• attaching hairlike fibre to felt (Mohair or dogs hair).

GOLD 40 gauge 3x3x0 barbs Use Gold for firming and finishing of fine wools such as Merino and Polworth, and fibres of similar diameter such as Angora, Alpaca, Silk, and manmade fibres such as Rayon, Soy silk and Ingeo.

Use Gold for:

• thickening areas in flat felt with a gentle horizontal action to ease more fibres into a thin area.
• firming, sculpturing and finishing 3-dimensional projects.
• securing fibres wrapped around wire or pipe cleaner.

ORANGE 40 gauge 2x2x2 barbs Use Orange as a finishing needle for all fibres, but particularly medium to fine wools.

Use Orange for:

• forming a denser surface skin in 3-dimensional projects, for securing a surface veneer, and for minimizing puncture marks on the finished surface of both flat and 3-dimensional projects.
• attaching fine and delicate embellishing fibres to any project. It causes the least amount of distortion in the embellishing fibres, and minimizes puncture marks. Use with a gentle stabbing action, which only penetrates to a shallow depth.
• attaching and securing wool in a loose way without making the wool look felted as in wool pictures.
• securing fibres wrapped around wire or pipe cleaner.

YELLOW: 40 2x2x2 - Use Yellow for coarse or medium wool projects and as a finishing needle for coarse wools such as Romney, Leicester and Lincoln and fibres of similar diameter. Leaves less pronounced puncture marks than BROWN. Close barb spacing like ORANGE but works over a greater depth.

Yellow is for:

• Attaching embellishment fibres and creating patterns on balls or eggs prior to wet felting
• Firming medium wool

Needle made in Switzerland, sets assembled in Canada