The Wizpick Everyday Felting Needle Set is the set to begin your needle felting adventures with!
We've created this sets to help you expand your needle felting horizons and get to know some these excellent needles. 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 EVERYDAY Needle Set includes:
BLUE: 32 8x0x0 - forming eye sockets, splicing, adding coarse and medium fibre, rooting hair on plastic dolls head.
BURGUNDY: 38 2x2x2 - Use Burgundy for medium wools, such as Corriedale and Merino. 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.
GILT: 32 2x2x2 reverse - Use Gilt for course fibres when you want to add texture to certain areas, rather than to condense and flatten. Especially handy for 3D sculptures of animals and birds.
Use Gilt for:
- pulling fibres backwards up the surface creating a furry surface
- loosening up hard or dense felt,
- creating a hair or grass-like texture.
MAUVE: 36 2x2x2 - Use Mauve for medium wools such as Corriedale, and firming stages for coarser fibres, such as Romney, Leicester, Lincoln and Mohair
Use Mauve for:
- Children! It’s a very sturdy needle ;)
- Form or firm 3-D items.
PEACH STAR 38 2x2x2x2 - Use Peach Star for medium and fine wools. This needle is a finer version of Red Star.blending pieces together, patching holes.
Use Peach Star for:
- blending pieces of flat felt together instead of using a seam.
- including patching a hole.
- using a shallow stabbing action.
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
- The Blending flat felt pieces together
- Patching holes
- Joining thicker yarns.
Needles made in Switzerland