Claudia Marie Lenart – författare

Needle felting is a process that uses barbed needles to mash wool fibers together forming a denser material into an endless range of shapes and forms, a great way to make adorable fully dimensional soft sculptures. This guide features 20 step-by-step beginner needle crafting projects including birds, fairies, unicorns, and many other woodland friends. Learn which needles to use, how to dye custom colours, how to blend colours and shapes, and the materials needed to begin the fulfilling art of needle felting. Claudia's felted artwork has been featured in two children's books and in national commercials.

This book introduces crafters to the rewarding world of creating with wool while immersing them in the natural beauty of this country’s national parks system. Each project starts with a small intro that shares in which parks the animals are found and the status of animals – threatened, endangered. Unlike other “National Parks”-inspired titles that include accessory projects, needle felting enables crafters to make miniature sculptures and landscapes of actual park animals. Claudia Lenart not only has impressive experience in the art of needle felting, previously authoring both a how-to manual, and illustrating children’s books with wool art, she spent three summers as a young adult working in Yellowstone, Mt. Rainier, and Sequoia National Parks.Includes: • Overview of wools, needles and other required tools and materials• Basic Techniques:DyeingBlendingCreating ShapesSmoothing• Armature creation• Wool sculptures and painting• 12 realistic projects