Introduction: Easter Egg Hunt Kit, Create 6 Needle Felted Eggs to Decorate and Hide

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Create your own felted eggs for your own Easter Egg Hunt!

Supplies

You can find all the fibre you need, by purchasing the kit from the link below!


https://www.tregaverfibreshop.com/product/easter-egg-hunt-kit

Step 1: Gather and Organise Your Supplies

Unpack your kit!


You'll find 100g of our wonky wool, this fibre is from when things go wrong during processing, but it's a beautiful mix of fibres and colours, and a very budget friendly way to create your projects!


You'll also get 5g of brown carded mixed species fibre, and 5g of our cream carded wool.

Step 2: Split Your Fibres for Each Egg

You'll need 6 sets of wonky wool, one for each egg.


It's up to you if you want to split into colour themes, or do a mix of colours in each egg.


I chose to make my eggs multicoloured!


You'll also need to split your carded fibres, but this will be done later on, so just set aside for now

Step 3: Create Your Eggs

You can either needle felt the wonky wool into eggs, or use the machine method.


The machine method:


To make the eggs,


  1. Make 6 rough ball shapes
  2. Take a pair of tights/pantyhose and cut off each leg.
  3. Tie the balls into the tights - ideally 3 in each leg
  4. Put into your washing machine at the highest heat, with a little wool friendly detergent
  5. Once the machine has finished, untie the threads holding the balls, and gently remove them from the tights
  6. While they are still damp, give them a good roll around with your hands to make sure they are rounded, and roll the tops a little thinner to create your egg shapes
  7. Allow to dry in a well ventilated warm place




Step 4: Ensure Your Eggs Fit in the Box

As you can see, my eggs came out bigger than they needed to be, and wouldn't fit in the box

You can solve this issue by felting the eggs more tightly


using a multitool with 3 or 4 needles, just felt the eggs more firmly

As you felt more, the fibres will interlock creating a tighter, and smaller egg shape

Step 5: Split Your Carded Wools for the Rabbits

So for this project, I decided on a bunny and a sheep design.


I'll create 3 bunny eggs and 3 sheep eggs.


So start by splitting your brown carded wool into 2 pieces, a large and a small section. The large will be your bunnies, the small will be the sheep heads later on.


You'll then need to use the large section of your carded wool, and split that into 3 sections too.


For your first bunny, you'll need to split one of your 3 sections into 4 smaller parts.


Photo 2 shoes how this will be done - you need a large (body), small (head) and a smaller one (ears)

Step 6: Create the Bunny Design

You only need a very small amount of fibre for the designs, so I've photographed them in my hand so you can see the scale.


Begin by felting a pear shape piece for the body


Then make a rounder piece for the head


Roll the final piece into a sausage, then felt it into a V shape

Step 7: Add Your Bunny to the Egg

Put the pieces onto the egg to ensure they are in the right place.


When you are happy with the placement, begin by felting the body onto the egg


Then add the head, and ears

Take a tiny amount of your cream wool, roll into a ball and felt it, then place it onto your bunny for his tail


Do this for 3 of your eggs


Step 8: Add Your Sheep to the Egg

You'll need a tiny amount for your sheep!


Create a small round ball of cream fibre and a small round ball of brown fibre by rolling it in your fingers, and then felt them into slightly flat 'button' type rounds

Add the body of your sheep, and then add it's head on.

You'll need to create 2 legs - the easiest way to do this is to make 2 sausages, then add them onto the body!


I also used a tiny bit of fibre to make an ear and tail!


As you can see, my legs ended up too long, so I folded some of the fibre back onto itself. and then felted that into place, and I also added a little bit more cream fibre over the top of it's legs, so it looks like the fleece is covering the tops of the legs

Step 9: Admire Your Work! (and Make Changes If Needed!)

I'm quite happy with how these came out, so at this stage, ensure that each egg is good enough, making any tweaks I feel were needed.

Step 10: Place Your Eggs in the Box

Once you've finished all 6 of your eggs, you can place them in the egg box, ready for your Easter Egg Hunt!


Congratulations on completing your project, and I hope you have fun on your hunt!