Felt Needle Reflection

Working with felt needle was fun. I didn't really encounter many difficulties in this project.

Main difficulties:

• Kept poking myself
• Sometimes, the felt would get stuck in the sponge (minor problem)
• A bit difficult to make the penguin's body parts equal

Vocabulary/terms in this project:

• Blending - mixing fibers of different colors or types together
• Carding - using carders to spread wool out and separate it into fibers
• Felt - fabric where wool fibers are entangled
• Felting needles - usually 3-sided needle with barbs on the side for meshing the felt/wool together

This project was more an arts-and-crafts project. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. Sometimes, it was difficult for me to get the proportions straight. In my opinion, the best part of my felt needle project was the penguin's head and body. Well, that's pretty much the whole thing. Anyways, I liked the head of the penguin because it was well-proportioned and round. For the body, I originally created it using white. But then, i added on grey felt. So, the body is kind of like a mixture of white and grey. The effect is pretty cool. Unfortunately, because I poked too much, there are some small holes, where the needles were, on the body. Next time, I should challenge myself more and try to create something more detailed and creative. Penguins are cute and all, but there really wasn't a lot of creativity in it. The creativity in this project would include the colors chosen, the overall shape, and the style.