Needle Felted Pinball Bumper Necklace

Gather tools and materials

Grip the wool roving with your hands a good distance apart, and pull gently.

Twist up the fibers. The more criss-crossed they are, the easier it is to felt.

Fold it together into a disc-like shape and begin to poke it with felting needles.

Safety! Felting needles are the sharpest sharp thing you've ever played with, unless you're a surgeon.

Always watch your hands while felting.

Never felt tired.

Use shallow, soft pokes instead of heavy pokes.

When you do stab yourself, just put a bandage on it and keep felting!

Once it starts to form a shape and is a little bit combined, pull the disc off the foam and turn it over.

Continue poking.

After a while, there won't be any more loose fiber to poke.

Loosely twist up another wisp of wool roving and wrap it around your disc.

Lay it down on the foam and keep poking until all of the new fiber is incorporated into the disc.

Twist, wrap, and poke many more layers of roving.

When it's nice and thick in the middle, but the edges are still fuzzy, use tiny pokes along the edge of the disc.