Hand Needle Felted Pins of Mohair Blend with Metallic Yarns
Hand sewn on Glass Beads
Hand sewn on pewter and golden pewter charms

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Felted pins look great on sweaters, jackets, coats and bags.
Also great to use to hold on a stole or cape.
All are unique and sure to be a conversational piece.

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What is Needle Felting?

Needle felting fabric is a time consuming process!
First, you have to use wool roving (wool that has not be twisted into yarn).
A tool with 5 very sharp barbed needles is used to punch the roving onto a special mat
With the wool pins on this page as many as 6 colors were blended together to make these felted shapes
Some pieces of felt take an hour+ to needle and shrink
They are hand washed to slightly shrink and thicken the wool
When dried the charms and beads are hand sewn onto the shape.
The pin is sew onto the back
More wool roving is needle felted onto the back to cover the sewing and to cover the base of the pin.
The front and back of the pin is repeatedly felted to smooth the surface.
Each pin then can take many hours to make!

Some of my pins also use 100% wool yarn with the roving.
Others use a Mohair blend yarn that has multiple multicolor metallic yarns twisted into it.

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