Needle Felting Kit: Sheep Baa-ble

I've made lots of these super cute Sheep Baa-bles over the past few years, and I decided it was time for you to make your own!

These kits are suitable for beginners and contain everything you'll need to make your own felted sheep entirely from British Wool. Using the best quality needle felting tools and with thorough instructions to guide you through.

WARNING: Felting needles are very sharp. This kit is not suitable for young children. Recommended for age 10+ with adult supervision.

Needle felting is the process of binding wool together with a barbed needle to make soft, loose wool into a sturdy shape. The barbs along the shaft of the needle pick up the wool fibres, pulling them in and out as you stab the wool. This matts the wool together.

Your kit includes:

Felting needles
Needles come in different gauges for different uses. You will use:
38 gauge star - black (x2) - for fast felting and firming shapes
40 gauge triangular - blue (x1) - a finer needle for detail.

Needle handle
Making it easier to hold the needles.

Felting Mat
This high quality, dense foam mat will give a base for your needle to hit, and mean that you don’t damage your work surface or snap your needle.

British wool
The wool in this kit is carded (combed) and referred to as “carded sliver”, good for felting.
White core wool - Whitefaced Woodland wool for the body.
Grey wool - a blend of British wool used for the head.
Black Jacobs wool - for the eyes.
Green Shetland wool - naturally dyed, for the grass.
White yarn - for the hanger

Thorough step by step instructions with photos to guide you through.

Details on the traceability of these materials can be found in the instructions. Your mat and needles can be used again and again in future felting projects. You may wish to buy more felting wool here on my website.

Choosing British Wool:
Choosing to craft with real wool avoids synthetic fibres that result in microplastics, and means that at the end of it’s life your creation can biodegrade, going back into the earth where it came from. Using British wool processed in the UK gives us a reduced carbon footprint, avoiding long shipping distances and all the carbon that goes with it.