FREE Tutorial: How to make a needle felted Gingerbread Man decoration

In this FREE needle felting tutorial video Nicola will show you how to make your own needle felted Gingerbread Man decoration.

As well as teaching you how to make the basic Gingerbread Man, Nicola will also show you how to add surface decoration and create a secure fixing to hang him from your Christmas tree.

This needle felted Gingerbread Man decoration tutorial is great for needle felting beginners, as it uses simple techniques that have a professional quality finish.

Nicola will guide you step by step is easy to follow bitesized sections throughout the video so that you will have a beautiful needle felted Christmas ornament to be proud of at the end.

These needle felted Christmas decorations also make amazing gifts; you could even create a whole family of needle felted Gingerbread people!

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Difficulty Level: Beginner / Advanced Beginner

Equipment:
• Felting surface
• Needle felting needles
• Finger protectors
• Gingerbread Man cookie cutter
• Gingerbread coloured fibre
• A small amount of fibre in black, white and an accent colour of your choice
• Long sewing needle
• Strong thread
• Decorative thread
• Scissors

Used by Nicola Dean:
• Needles: 38G and 42G triangular needles from HeidiFeathers
• Fibre (all from World of Wool):
- Merino top in ‘Sienna’
- Merino top in 'Raven' and 'Ruby'
- Falkland Merino top in 'White'
• ’DMC Pearl Cotton' thread
• Twisted red and white paper raffia twine from The Works

Additional Instructions:

• Tutorial on preparing tops to be used as top colour can be found here:    • How to add top colour when needle fel...  

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USE OF THIS TUTORIAL:
I am happy for you to make items from this tutorial for personal use or to sell. All I ask is, if you share what you have made, that you add a note to say that you made it from a FREE tutorial from The Flock and add a link to The Flock’s Facebook group.

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The tutorial and its content is protected by copyright and must not be copied or shared without prior permission.

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About The Flock:

The Flock is dedicated to providing videos containing all you need to know about needle felting and free video tutorials. Hosted by Nicola Dean – an accomplished fibre artist with a vast experience in 3D and 2D needle felting. Nicola also has experience combining needle felting and wet felting methods; making beautiful pieces of art. In addition to this, Nicola has experience as a needle felting designer and teaching needle felting methods.