***Please note that this kitten is available as my free giveaway this year. You can enter to win through April 6, 2020 on my Facebook page***
This is a time lapse (primarily) video of how I made this little kitten. I do have a very detailed tutorial available (Fox) that you can refer to if you need to see the technique more clearly.
Materials:
*needle felting foam pad
*needle felting needles (I used primarily 40T and the clover felting pen as described in the Fox Tutorial. I also used the 36T needle in attaching the head to the body, and the reverse felting needle on the tail)
*clear plastic safety eyes (these ones happen to be 9mm from Glass Eyes Online)
*acrylic paint for the back of the eyes (I used Liquitex phthalocyanine blue and gold to achieve an aqua blue color with metallic shimmer. Any acrylic paints should work, and the eye color is up to you)
*paint brush
*scissors
*core wool roving
*white and black colored wool rovings
*light pink/peach wool batt -- roving would be OK
*darker pink and light gray wool optional -- very tiny amounts needed for nose details and brow accents. For tiny detail areas, a fine marker (india ink) in darker pink and light gray would be acceptable instead, and while I have not tried it, some artists use chalk pastels for these details. I believe chalk requires a fixative, and since I am unfamiliar with this technique I cannot give any advice, but I have seen beautiful results, in case you want to experiment with it.
***SOME IMPORTANT NOTES:
The attachment of the ears was unfortunately not filmed! I must not have restarted my camera. The ears are attached the same way as in my fox tutorial, and this step can be seen in PART 3 of that tutorial. • DIY Making A Needle Fe...
At the end of the video I briefly used the reverse needle (with the pink heart handle) on the kitten's tail to make it fuzzy, but I forgot to mention it.
Also, I trimmed the wool around the edges of the face with scissors to create the shape of the cheeks.