This master class is suitable for newcomers in dry fooling and those who are just going to create their miniature pet.
So, in order to eat a small pet or susuvatari, we will need:
1. Wool for felting. If you work precisely suwavatari, then black and white colors. And if you wish to create your unique creature, then the whole rainbow colors is yours, do not forget about white and black eyes for the eyes (although options are possible here).
2. Needle (needles) for felting. Minimum - 1 piece Size 38 (55-60 According to Russian Ghosts, if I'm not mistaken, or universal, such usually eat in dials without specifying size), if you want to make the creature fluffy, it is necessary to have a reverse needle for felting. Optimally - 2 needles (thin and ultra-thin or medium and thin) + reverse.
3. Working surface. A thick sponge for dishes is suitable (of course - new and clean), I like working with a dense automotive sponge. Someone is convenient to work with a special brush or with a bag filled with wool. You can also adapt an old wool sweater. The meaning of the working surface is that the needle has a flight of "flight" and she did not hit the table or your fingers (in the first case it will be easy to break, in the second - will bring himself a disathum, and this is not so much painful when the blood goes, how much The next day, when the fingers would hurt to touch the world around).
4. Good mood and a little fantasy =)
To begin with, decide on the exemplary size of your yet born crumbs and navitite the bunch of the wool of the main color. It is important that the wool is cut off not long braids, but short beams, otherwise the finished product will not look natural.
To determine, enough for you this wool for the product, squeeze it well. If the size of the compressed ball does not coincide with the ideas about the size of the future character, we add / we reduce the wool and repeat the procedure again until the result arranges.
Now proceed to the time consuming and long-term process in all this event - directly to felting. Careful with your fingers and needle: the needle needs to be entered into the wool perpendicular to the surface, and towards the working mat. Do not send a needle to the side of your fingers, even if it seems that you already work well. Periodically turn the product with different sides to dump it uniformly.
Some say that the felting process soothes nerves. There is even a type of art therapy as Felt therapy. Therefore, enjoy =) As a result of the work, you should get a ball, tight, but in moderation, ideal to seek too early.
If you eat a ball very tightly, there will be problems with the attachment of other elements (in this case - the eye), and during this process there is a risk of breaking the needle. If you leave it too loose - after the entrance of the eyes, it can be deformed and losing his shape and "commodity appearance".
For your eyes, we tear away small pieces of white wool, it is important: the same. How to achieve this? Ride the wool between the palms or fingers so that it becomes a small ball. Two balls are easier to compare in size. As soon as it turned out to comprise the balls for the eyes - slightly treat them with a needle for fooling, so that they are "gathered in a bunch" and were not just a beam of villi. And already these "bugs" are taking turns to that part of the color ball, where, according to your view, there must be a face.
Spherifying eye proteins are more convenient from the center and to the edges. Then there is an opportunity to hide the uneven edges deep into the product.
As soon as both eye protein will be ready, carefully inspect them for symmetry, and correct if somewhere something is wrong. Carefully with a needle, remember the perpendicularity of the product.
Now it's time to make pupils. Here I do not limit you with the dimensions, they can even be different :) The technology is the same as with the eyes of the eye, only to tear up completely tiny pieces of wool, up to several villings. And also ride them between the pads of the fingers to estimate the future size. I have been originally balls. The smaller the entrance area, the greater the wool inward, it should also be remembered, and accordingly take this percentage of losses.
As soon as pupils are ready - the product begins to look at us carefully, and now it is no longer it in your power, and you are in it. After this procedure, the Valyan Creature begins to dictate your conditions, and in general in every way to show your character.
After creating the eye, you need to go to the second monotonous procedure - I call it "grinding" - to fill with a thin needle surface, to give it homogeneousness and bringing the product to the completed view. It all depends on your perfection and degree of perfectionism =) But since I will continue to shake the susuvatari in the future, then it is not necessary to bring everything to the ideal, the main thing is very tightly sprinkling all the vills so that the product does not fall apart, and there has been a cultural look.
If you, too, decided to make your own being in a reverse needle, then you need to do it gradually, in different planes. First, the fluffiness turns out to be slightly.
The boundaries between the processed and non-treated surface are visible to the unarmed look, even in such a small product.
And then, due to the fact that the product turns all the time, we are slightly intimidated with your fingers, and the result takes a more tidy look.
If in some places, the wool sticks too defiantly, you can make a model haircut with scissors :)
As a result, you must get here such a fluffy lump.
You can leave it in this form, but you can give it the individuality, your taste. I built him legs and handles, and then a couple of friends for a funny company =)
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