Felting Animals Part 3: The Head

By: Cynthia Mak
Little Felted Animals, Marie- Noëlle Horvath and Richard Boutin

Today, I'll be creating the head of my welsh corgi out of white wool, and I'll later attach it to the rest of my corgi. I'll try to match the diagram below and create the rounded shape with a skinnier snout.

"Form the basic head and body shapes from white wool, leaving an end of unworked wool at the top of the body. Join them together by felting this end onto the head" (Marie- Noëlle Horvath 34).

(Marie- Noëlle Horvath 34) 

I took out an amount of wool that I thought would be enough
after it condensed to be the head,

I flattened the wool and rolled it up, and felted around the areas
to secure the loose ends. 

I continued to felt the wool until it started to condense and I
tried my best to make it an oval shape.

After a very long time of felting, the wool finally condensed into
a smaller shape and  I felted a crease so the corgi's head
has a snout.

Felting is a really long and tedious process. It takes lots of patience and time. Thank you for reading! And watch out for my future blog posts where I'll be creating the rest of my corgi.

My question: What animal would you be interested in making?


 Marie- Noëlle Horvath and Richard Boutin. Little Felted Animals, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2008.