Let’s whip up some needle-felted sheep for a baby mobile! My daughter loves looking, pointing, and reaching at these little friends above her changing table. This was one of my first ever needle-felting projects, and I love how forgiving and therapeutic felting can be. No matter how many inspiration photos I referenced, once I started shaping body parts, these sheep took on spunky little lives of their own, and I especially love their different hairdos!

Materials

Fibers

• Wool Batting (also known as Core Wool)

• Trace Amounts of Wool Roving in Various Neutral Colors

• Wensleydale Curls

Tools

• Felting Needles

• Needle Felting Foam or Cushion

• Silicon Thimbles or Finger Guards (optional)

• DMC Embroidery Floss (for hanging mobile)

• Wooden Hoop (I used an old embroidery hoop)

• Eye Hook (for mounting to ceiling)

💙 Fibers, supplies, tools and more can be found at BenzieDesign.com 💙

Tutorial

• Use core wool to felt a peanut-shaped body.

• Use core wool to felt and shape four feet and legs. Leave the tops of the legs un-felted so that they can be attached to the body. Ta-da, you now have a headless sheep!

• Using the same technique as the feet/legs, use core wool to felt a round head, two ears, and tiny tail, all with un-felted ends to make it easier to attach each piece to the body.

• Once you are happy with the overall shape, add detail and texture to the sheep’s coat with neutral colors of roving and lots of curly locks. Adding curls to the top of the head gives your sheep a lot of personality!

• Felt tiny eye and nose details with trace amounts of dark brown or black wool roving.

• Repeat steps to create a few more sheep – each one shapes up a little differently which makes it fun.

Introducing Meryl Sheep, Fleece Witherspoon, and Halle Baaarry:

• To create a baby mobile, first attach an eye hook to the ceiling.

• Measure your desired lengths of embroidery floss so that each sheep will hang at a different height.

• Knot one end of your floss, pierce each sheep from belly and up though the back, then loop once or twice around the hoop. Repeat for each sheep.

• Join all embroidery floss ends at the top, and knot to create a loop to hang from the eye hook.

If you enjoyed this tutorial, please let me know! I would love to see your creations on Instagram: @moseycreative