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Published: 2010-11-03 02:56:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 18884; Favourites: 582; Downloads: 157
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Dragons and wyverns and things with wings/legs/glass eyes all look nice, but they are a pain in the butt to make. Sometimes I just want to felt and relax without it being exhausting. When that happens, I make pokemon.Dragonair is made entirely out of colored wools, except for a wire run down her middle that makes her gently posable. She also has an apoxie sculpt horn painted in acrylics and coated in matte gel (i.e. a varnish). She's approximately 16 inches long and is super fun to pose! I like the serpentine body type. Maybe I'll do more.
Needle felting, to summarize briefly, is a technique used to create what are essentially 'wool sculptures'. There's no sewing involved; instead, by punching the raw wool thousands of times with special barbed needles, you transform it into felt, and can control the shape of the felt.
Before you ask, yes, that's a corn snake in the fourth picture. His name is Jasper. He probably wants me to stop putting pokemon in his tank.
Materials: Wool, felting needles, wire, needle nose pliers, apoxie sculpt, acrylic, matte varnish.
Dragonair and all other pokemon are copyright to Gamefreak and Nintendo. I just make things out of wool. (Gotta catch 'em all, Pokemon!)
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-stares O.O (jaw drops then faints) awesome job, i tried making a felted pig once just 1 inch tall and wide and that took me 2 hours of stabbing the thing e.e you should try making a rayquaza one if your up to the challenge but supppperrrr cool x3333
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I'm planning to make a needle felted snake and it needs to be bent. Where did you get your wire?
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I got it at ACMoore, a craft store, though you can get similar stuff at other places--such as at a hardware store, or a florist (floral wire). I use either aluminum or steel depending on what I'm making.
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Thanks
Could you also tell me how you made it? I cant find anythig on the internet. Im planning on needle felting a snake and yours looks the closest thing to one hehe sorry for bothering you so much!
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No problem! There's lots of tutorials on the internet on how to needle felt that can explain the basic technique better than I can, but if you already know that, then really the trick to making a snake is to get a wire, and wrap the wool TIGHTLY around the wire, then felt it down. Also, make sure there's a loop at each end of the wire and you felt some wool through the loop--if you just leave the wire as a sharp point, it'll eventually poke through the wool!
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Oh and please reply ASAP I'm on a time limit. Thanks
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This is so cute! Must be fun posing it :>.
does the wool not frey or split apart when you pose it? And is there any sort of armature holding up the ears/fins?
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Thank you! Not really, I felt very densely so by the time it's done, it's really, in essence, a solid piece of felt just like fabric felt--if you were rough with it or tried to over-contort it it may split, but regular posing is fine. And nope, the ears hold themselves up.
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Are they for sale cause it's my birthday :3 i all ways wanted a dragonair stuffie!
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Do you sell these by chance? Because I would love to buy one and have it wrapping around my desk or something. :]
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^_^ I love dragonair, it's so elegant looking, and you did a great job with it
oh and Jasper is pretty cute too
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Omg...*drools* xDDD Is this even possible? xD I can't even find a flaw.
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Aww! My favourite is the one with him and Jasper. ^_^
Is he for sale? (The dragonair, not the snake. 
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Thank you! The dragonair has already been sold, but I may do one again, it was pretty fun.
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AWESOME
Do you have an idea of when?
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It'll depend on how the next couple of months go...at the moment I'm out of the country with no felting supplies! ^_^; Whenever I have a long stretch at home I start felting again.
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I've always loved Dragonair *_________*, nice job *_________*
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oooo this is beautiful! and you got everything just perfect it looks X3 i love it!
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itΒ΄s absolutely awesomee β₯
love it soo much !
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this looks amazing 
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This is so cool! 
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That is so cool, I wish I could do that. =3
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that's awesome! i love dragonair because she's a "gentle dragon" and i love dragon...i'm gonna watch you after i post this and im gonna finish looking through your gallery and fav alot of stuff...^u^...can you make a tutorial for this? i really want to make stuff like this and i love crafting...again, i reall like dragonair and this is adorable...^u^
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Lol after reading the comment about him being perplexed, that's exactly what I thought. "Wtf you weren't here a minute ag--- oh, thanks.... for snapping the picture while I wasn't ready." Hah. Snakes amuse me. I've raised several, and my ball python, Cash, had Hannibal on his handcart in his tank for a while. Until he hugged him to oblivion. >.>
Anyway, to compliment the needle felting, this is amazing and I adore it. I admire crafts like this, because I do not have the patience to do so. This is an adorable creation.
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How would you get the wire in? Would you stab the wool around it, or push it in?
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I build wool up around the wire--it actually works very nicely for long cylindrical critters like this one, since I can just wrap wool very tightly around a wire, and then go at it with the needle until its solid.
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love all your felted creatures, but the Dragonair just made me so happy! 
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Oh that's cool. Yay Pokemon! I love that it can bend. I just find it so fascinating. Felting sounds interesting, but I am a bit busy at the moment haha.
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This is AMAZING. Oh, wow, wow. 
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wow!! this is fantastic. so cute!! nice corn snake too... i want one so badly!!
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