Welcome to my FELTING website. My name is Elaine and I live in Ontario, Canada. While looking for articles one day on the internet I found this interesting article about my favorite hobby, Needle felting. I never really thought of it as being calming but I know I always felt better when making one of my needle felted animals. Maybe stabbing something over and over releases some kind of endorphin LOL and helps keep me sane. *Creating needle felted animals can be good for your overall health. It’s hard to be calm in todays’ fast-paced atmosphere. TV, computers, and video games stifle creativity by thinking for you. A needle felting hobby can be just the thing you need to calm you and allow your creative side to shine through. What is needle felting? It is a dry felting technique. You don’t have to use soap and water as in the traditional method. You use a special barbed needle, a foam pad, and raw wool to create wall hangings, pillows, three dimensional characters, and more. The special barbed needle is plunged into the wool fibers. The fibers lock together and felt the wool. The beauty of using a single needle is that you have a lot of control over shaping and layering your projects. How can needle felting be calming? Because the needles are sharp, you must pay close attention to your work. While felting your project, you are focused on what you are doing and this keeps your mind free from worry. As your mind disconnects from everyday problems, your blood pressure decreases and your body relaxes. How can needle felting make you more creative? Just relieving stress will help get the creative juices flowing. With this art form, you use touch and sight to create projects which stimulates creative thinking. Felting with a needle allows you to experiment with colors and shapes. Experimenting helps you to be more creative because you never know the outcome until your project is finished. Layering wool provides you with the option of creating your own unique shapes and sizes. If you try three dimensional felting, you can really let your personality shine through in the characters you create. 3D characters are fun and you can create critters only you have seen in your imagination. Making something you have imagined is the ultimate in creativity and, with a little practice, you can easily create characters. Needle felting is an inexpensive, simple hobby to learn. Focusing on your project will have a calming effect. Relieving stress will get the creative juices flowing. Needle felting allows you to be creative with wool. Give needle felting a try and add a little calm, creative fun to your life.* *Original article from: EzineArticles.com/?Needle-Felting—How-You-Can-Be-Calm-and-Creative-Felting-Wool&id=53243 Please check out my etsy store for felted items http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7759949 Also see my web site called the felted purse for more on felting www.thefeltedpurse.com

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