Make Magic Wool Fruit Children
by Floris Books • 8 January 2013 • Crafts & Activities, Magic Wool, Steiner-Waldorf Education • 0 Comments
Magic Wool Fruit Children by Christine Schäfer (available from 24th January) is a fun and colourful craft book with step-by-step instructions for making a variety of fruit and fruit children with a felting technique using unspun sheep’s wool.
This gallery will show your how to make a basic fruit child!
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- Magic Wool Fruit Children by Christine Schäfer
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- Start with the head. Make a wool ball about 2cm. Bind a string of wool (15-20cm).
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- Place the ball on the bind-off point.
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- Smooth the strand firmly around the ball and bind-off the neck with a small amount of wool fibre.
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- The bind-off point should be exactly on top of the head. Make sure the wool is smoothed down.
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- Attach the inner core of the body to the head by winding wool around the existing strands.
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- Add more layers to make the body into a large ball.
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- Layer coloured wool over the body and needle felt it in place.
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- Make sure you cover all the white.
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- Needle felt curly wool onto the head to create hair.
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- This can take time because each is done individually.
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- You can create these figures in any colour and use them as the basis for creating many types of fruit children.
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- Chestnut children made using the basic fruit child template.
