Wizpick STARTER Needle Felting Needle Set of 4

The Wizpick Starter Felting Needle Set is a great collection of needles for when you just want to get started! 

We've created this set to give you 4 basic needles that will allow you to practice a variety of techniques. Each needle is specific to a particular technique. You're gonna find your favourite needle in this 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.

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 Starter Needle Set includes:

BURGUNDY: 38 2x2x2 - Use Burgundy for medium wools, such as Corriedale and Halfbred, and initial felting of fine wools and similar fibres, such as Merino, Angora, Alpaca, Silk and fine manmade fibres such as Rayon, Soy silk, Ingeo, if they are being used for the bulk of the project. This needle is not recommended for attaching fine fibres as an embellishment.

Use Burgundy for:

• Deep penetration
• Attaching blobs of wool (eyes of felted animals)
• Joining balls together
• Creating spots within a smooth surface.

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.

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.

RED STAR: 36 2x2x2x2 - Use Red to easily penetrate firm felt, condensing light to medium wool in early stages.

Use Red Star for:

• Forming balls
• Blending flat felt pieces together
• Patching holes
• Joining thicker yarns.

Needles made in Switzerland