Needle Felting is Painful 

The amount of realism some needle felting artists achieve is amazing. Its a form of sculpting but its very different

My new favourite part of Jazza’s videos is Jazza running around showing the entire team what he’s done. You can just tell how excited he is

I think we need a needlefelt Jazza. Your character has been created in lots of different art forms, why not felt too?

I love how he keeps trying to make self-deprecating jokes about the pikachu but then backpedaling because he actually is really proud of it. Too wholesome for negative jokes on this one.

If there's ever the doubt that you're extremely talented, just look how much you improved between thiccachu and chibbi-dinger, your literal second ever needle felting project.

The lady at the local craft shop is the most helpful person ever

I love how everyone thinks the pikachu is a cute little chonker and then they see the butt and give Jazza a stern look. I’ve dabbled only a tiny bit with needle felting and you have far surpassed me. The deep dive project is so good.

Jazza, The number of times I heard my daughter say: “put it on the mat”, and “use the finger protection” … I could be rich. Also please do Yoda next.

This takes “no pain no gain” to a different level

There's a subsection of needle felting which does "paintings" on the felt sheets, might be worth looking into! It's a LOT of fun as well and goes a little faster.

As a needle felting artist I can say that I'm completely enraged! Haha, this was an awesome first attempt! The hair and moustache were fantastic on Heimerdinger! And I feel you with the stab wounds! 😭😭😭

So Jazza, if you have all of this felt left over as well as the felting needle, you can actually make needle felted paintings! Especially if you start off with a felt sheet as a base. You can then add the other colors on top to create various paintings! I'd love to see your interpretation of this!

When I was in high school, I did needle felting for an art competition and got first in both my state and region. I made a gnome girl who was peeking around a mushroom. I had the items standing on a wooden platform with acorns around. I was really proud of it.

If you don't want none to do with needles, I have the perfect solution for you: wet felting. The wool goes through the same process but instead of needles you just need water and soap, so the only danger is making a bit of a mess if you aren't careful. Totally safe and you can end up with clothing, shoes, a hat or whatever you want by the end. I have been recommending this since needle felting became like a thing between art youtube for a while lol I love felting and wet felting can be such a relaxing activity that I would love to see more people giving it attention.

Jazza with a beard looks like Chris Hemsworth's long lost brother, that's a compliment

You should dive into an asian dragon. It would give you the opportunity to really play with the texture of the scales, the flowing locks of the tail and mane, and you could even add shimmer with metallic threads and sequins.

Yes!! I am a needle felter, I might even go so far as to call myself a professional, and in my professional opinion you did amazing- especially for your first time! For bigger pieces I recommend not worrying about how tight the core wool is felted- it’ll hold its shape once you go around it with your top layer, and just keep some wire inside for structural integrity. I also love making my own needle holders from remouldable thermoplastic (from Jaycar) and you can make them as big/small as you like, and just melt it up again if you break any needles. It can help the projects go quicker, and you don’t have to use the clunky safety punches. My favourite needle felting artist for tips and tutorials is Reena Lee Creations.

Jazza's intro today was the most relatable intro in the history of the universe.

I love jazza saying “I learned a lot from this” with multiple bandaids on his hand

Thiccachu and Heimerdinger are sooo cute, I probably need to get into needle felting bc I WANT THEM SO BADLY

I use felting needles to root hair on dolls and sometimes you slip.. and go straight through fingers 😂 i usually say that my dolls are made with blood sweat and tears. It's quite accurate.

I love how Jazzas first attempts are always just mediocre and his second attempts are always incredible.

A girl at the school I work at a few years ago was SO good at felting. She made various animals, and they sold well at the annual craft show. I was awfully tempted by her elephant.

I would love to see more needlefelting. Actually, this video has inspired me to pick it up again. I was feeling a bit discouraged because my projects weren't turning out the way I wanted, but after watching this, I just need to keep at it. Thank you!

When you click on the video no matter what that's when you know jazza is worth watching

How many times a day do you run around the studio Jazza, calling out “Look what I made?” The look on each staff’s face when they spot the backside shows none are surprised with you either 🤣

Needle felt on sweaters. It's magic. It's much more forgiving than needle felting like little sculpture things. It's also much more practical because basically no one needs more little tchotchke sitting around. (I mean, most of the things are pretty useless unless you're making Christmas ornaments, or toys for kids.) Needle felting on sweaters looks super, super impressive, and you can put literally anything you want on a sweater, with reasonably professional looking results.

PLEASE have an interview with the Lady at the Local Craft shop! She'll have SO MANY stories to tell!

Yay Jazza is doing my main craft finally ^^ I gotta ask - Did you break any needles with these two projects? For the fuzzy vs smooth surface you mentioned - there's actually different types of needles you can use to make less fuzzy or even more fuzzy results. It's really fun to experiment different things with different types of fibres and needles! And if you want to get more ambitious you can even make wire skeleton base to support things if you plan to make bigger ones.

Since you're in the needle section of arts you should give Embroidering a try next jazza!!

Tips for felting. Different needles have different purposes. Think of it like sandpaper and working down in size the smoother you want it. Make use of the single needles more. They give you more control over where things sit and give you the ability to carve out shapes more. You're going to stab yourself and do so often. Wear the leather finger guards or thimbles if you don't like that. It is not a rush. Throw on a movie and take your time, it's kinda soothing. Make body parts separate then connect. Start small and work up. This was a fantastic first go and choice for a beginner project.

I will never stop being amazed by how quickly you pick these things up. The difference in quality between your first and second attempts is astounding.

YES more needle felting. I AM ADDING A CLARIFICATION!!! YAY!!! :) THIS POST IS BECOMING A MESS I LOVE IT. IF you use modgepodge, or any other kind of glue to prep a limb, or to make a section paintable. The best advice, is to always try it on a scrap piece, before on a project you are working on. For Limbs, use a long needle, or three prong needle, puncture deep and fast, only a few times, wait till it dries (Doesn't take long.) then add more felt to cover, and fill up. (someone in on of my art groups pointed out, the best way to clean modgepodge off metal, and thus your needles, is to have separate needles, and a little cup of hot almost boiling water with a little bit of soap, and just drop the needles you used on the modgepodge in right away, scrape the sides carefully with a pin, being careful of the barbs, and place it to the side to dry, he uses a metal stir stick to carefully spread modgepodge on projects, and that's how he cleans it) For painting the felt creation, once you have finished an area, let the modgepodge you applied dry completely before you paint, let the paint dry, and you can felt over the edge of the painted area, it's supposed to work better if the paint is still a little wet, like pliable, but not quite dry, what ever that word is, but I never painted my felt guy so don't ask me! For super artsy pieces, this is fun to do instead of using store bought hard eyes, and still be able to get a more unique look, than just felt. When doing bigger Needle Felting, ya gotta build up your initial layer, start small, add more, and more, as it gets firmer, BUT NOT TOO FIRM, as the extra felt you are adding will make it even more firm, until you have the size you want, the needle is only effective to a certain depth, that's why the bigger ball wasn't working, it starts to behave more like a big ball full of air. If you don't and the piece gets handled often, and have smaller sections on them, like arms or tails, the excess movement will eventually cause the piece to become loose, and lose shape... takes a long long time though, years of handling. :) but if you start small, make sure its nice and tight, the little felt suckers can last forever. Especially if you modge podge the inner layers, to help get it tighter, OR modgepodge certain parts of the outerlayer multiple times, and you cant paint it, but that's not the point of felt needling :) modgepodge is still useful for getting tighter cores, and discretely attaching limbs. Make the base of the limb smaller than you want and unfinished, I mean strands of felt ready to be pressed in., a tiny bit of modgepodge (no really, like not even a drop, use a toothpick to apply it)to the base to the body (NOT LIMB), press, single or triple needle, to work the modgepodge deep, add more felt slowly so the modgepodge dries, and to fill out the base of the limb, and no one will know any different if you needling on the last layer after its dried. Way stronger limbs. I got to learn needle felting in a Junior high art class series, and my little dude lasted probably 8 years as a key chain, because I glued the crap out of his core. I have texture sensitivity, so unfortunately It's not an art I can take part in, and that's where my experience ends, it was 3 classes, and I hated the feeling of the felt when its loose. The art teacher had an older woman come in to teach us, she could make realistic looking flower petals, and did them for weddings. EDIT: Apparently this method is old school, and most professionals use a type of wire armature to make bigger felt sculptures now. She tried to teach us other stuff, but I never really paid much attention to the other stuff, just these things caught my ear, and got stuffed in my ADHD brain. Oh ADHD, you are a curse, and a blessing.

I'd love to see more needle felting, it's something I've been interested to try and seeing the realistic beginner projects is encouraging because everywhere online all you see is those hyper realistic animals or the really refined chibi characters. I think any video game characters would be fun to see, maybe a moogle from final fantasy! They're one of my favorite adorable characters from games. Also anything from Zelda, my absolute favorite franchise. A Majora's mask project would utilize a lot of color and come out pretty badass.

PLEASE more needle felting! This is SO fun to watch. Maybe try a landscape on a piece of felt and then try to make a 3D character coming out from it?

Hey Jazza, I think it would be really interesting if you were to try to needle felt treebeard from Lord of the Rings. I think he has a great aesthetic for needle felting, and he has his own challenge while still feeling approachable. The amount of detail you could put in would be very impressive, and it would be really exciting to see how you do

I’m a spinner rather than a needle felter (though I have dabbled); I’m happy to see you playing with fibre! I’d love to see you try 2D needle felting. You could try making a wool version of one of your previous artworks.

Watching this makes me want to see him do a diamond painting so badly. I feel like he would either love it, or hate it. Either way entertaining for us.

This is just so satisfying to watch, i've honestly never heard about this type art before

I really like how he tries new things out without any help and THEN goes to see how it should be done and how he could do better lol

I see the thumbnail: "OH NO WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO TO THAT POOR PIKACHU!!" Jazza: "Create it."

I get lost for hours watching needle felters work, especially the incredibly realistic pet portraits! Theres something special to be said about having your very own thiccachu in your home, but that little Arcane guy is going to look great on the shelf!

We're all with you with the pain of needle felting, my stash of felt is sitting there and stab wounds aside you've inspired me to pick it up again Jazza, love your channel, amazing energy

Needle felting artist here ;) (sorry if it's TLDR) You let yourself be tempted by the multi tools... The clover tool is great; BUT not in the very beginning of a project. The needles don't reach far enough in. (you can actually take the first pink part of the "pen" off so your needles reach further. But still, it's for small needles. Usually, depending on the wool you work from a stronger needle to a finer.) Also: felting needles are "numbered backwards" a 36 is a strong needle, a 40 is a fine needle. What actually works really well is 2 medium needles in a clover tool. (more than two don't work, unfortunately. They literally won't go into the wool) It's at least a little faster. But creating a well felted, firm figurine always takes ages. I recognized some of the tutorial videos you watched were from my favourite needle felter, Felts by Philippa. She has very good videos for beginners explaining needles, wools etc. So If you want to attempt something again, maybe have a look there. 50 seconds in... Starting with the punching tool - which is made for 2D felting, but not for a 3D figure like you're making. Again, needles don't reach far enough in. Also, when I accidentally bought and tried it before I knew what I was doing I never felt it did much. And, as you noticed it is very easy to stab yourself with it. I'd say unless you want to felt a 2d picture leave that thing alone and get a different multi-tool holder. You'll probably be much happier with it than the punching tool. Your Pikachu looked pretty good for a first attempt. So did the second little guy! Well done! I'm glad you enjoyed felting! And don't worry. EVERYTHING just looks like a shapeless blob in the beginning. As you saw for yourself: Trust the process and you'll get something cool out of it. Some quick tips: - Roll the wool as tightly as you can when you begin. It saves time! - If you have hands, feet, ears etc. to attach leave the end you are going to attach fluffy. This way you should not get any bumps but a smooth transition from one to the other. It will look seemless. - As I mentioned, 2 medium needles in a multi-tool speed things up a bit. (and remember, you can take of the front pink bit of the pen to get the needles further in.) - If you have to do parts that need to be about the same size (limbs, ears etc.) rip off about the same amount of wool for each and compare them before you start felting the first. It will make life much easier if you have the right amount for e.g. all four legs of an animal prepared before you start the first one. - You can always add more wool. So try start with maybe a little less than you think you need. (I have spent SO MUCH time trying to just keep felting something smaller. It's an absolute unnecessary time stealer. Please learn from my mistake. Your time is valuable! Use it wisely.) ... I should stop now :D Have a great day!

I really enjoy making needle felt landscape “paintings”, great job Jazza!

This makes me sooo happy has a needle felting artist!!! Nice to see it on a large platform

I love how cute and goofy it is. It isn’t perfect but that’s what makes it so cute in my opinion. Just really derpy and neat

I love that you did this, it makes needle felting so much more approachable. Ive been wanting to try it for years after seeing some of the realistic animals.

That looks like so much fun! I think that it would be cool to combine this with some miniature work. Little bit of sculpting and a little bit of needle felting. Maybe space bear?

I love needle felting! It’s also fun to needle felt a painting. I could see you doing a needle felted version of a Bob Ross painting tutorial or something

1:29 the goof and banter is so heartwarming 💘

I definitely want to see more needle felts, something I'd love to see made but I doubt any creator would do it is gurgi from the black cauldron.

One of the first things I learned when needle felting (besides the fact that there’s a reason “needle” is part of the title of the craft!) is that when making two of something that you want to match size with is to make them side by side. Pull out the wool for one, then pull out for the second. Needle one a bit to make the shape, then the other. Going back and forth between the two you can make two legs (ears, arms, eyes, etc.) that match. Great video and great work!! I agree that you should try the wool painting and do a flat (or semi dimensional) piece!!!

You should make a giant needle felt dragon. Maybe even with a matching castle

i LOVE that Heimerdinger, it's more adorable than i expected

1. Yes DOTA! 2. I think I started watching your videos five years ago and I haven’t watched them in maybe a year. It’s honestly nice to come back and see that you’re still making the fun quality content that hooked me into your channel so many years ago 3. Why didn’t you do the Jazza avatar??? I was so pumped!

Would love to see more needle felting! Maybe try doing a landscape or portrait style next time? (rather than a 3d figure) Thanks as always! Go team Jazza!

i cant believe how random this video was to me xD i am in midst of planning a session for my course to try out needle felting and SUDDENLY you come out with this video hahaha love it! especially that heimerdinger looked INCREDIBLE

Aww, that Pikachu is so cute.

Never knew what needle-felting was until now and I really want to try it, it looks fun, patience required and relaxing, I'm not an arty type of person but I actually wanna try. Thank You Jazza and Team ❤

I love Jazza's videos and I watch them all but my favourite thing is when Gareth makes some kind of cameo. And the smash SFX when Gareth threw the felt made me laugh. It made my day. Thanks guys!

I've seen realism paintings of Ireland landscapes done, really really well in felt, with tons of hue and color variations and detail, I was mind blown that was possible with felt

Needle felting with realistic Tabletop Roleplay Characters.

I started loving you even more when you said that Arcane is your favorite animated show!

I'm enjoying the new direction of his content. Feels a lil more immature at times, but you take the good with the bad, at least he's happy

Love how he's trying out the more 'overlooked' crafts. 💕💕💕

Needle felting is a fantastic craft to do after a long, particularly terrible day at work. So cathartic!

I’ve always wondered about felting, thanks for taking the absolute beginner’s journey and letting us ride-along.

I love seeing someone who has as many varied interests as I do, but seeing it done in a way that actually looks good is on a whole other level. Thank you for this, Jazza.

I do needle felting (nothing legit like the videos you were watching, just for fun) so I got so excited when I saw this video pop up! :D I made a cute little dino that I'm really proud of so maybe an epic, Jazza-style dinosaur/dragon. Or, because of the inherent cuteness of the felting, you could go the opposite directions and try to make something really creepy/scary/ominous?

Jazza I have a idea for a future needle felting project, You could needle felt your character (animated you). I just think its a good idea if you don't think so that is fine.

Okay, so I cringed at only a couple of things: First, it is wool roving, not felt, that you're stabbing. Stabbing the wool roving turns it into felt. Second.... DON'T USE SCISSORS ON THE WOOL ROVING! It ruins the ends of it and makes the resulting piece extra fuzzy. A tip: instead of stabbing super rough for a smooth finish, try stabbing almost parallel to the surface to tack down the stray strands of wool. It creates a super smooth finish and I think you'll find it more satisfying. Remember, you don't have to stab super hard or sink the whole needle into the piece. Only go as far as the last set of barbs. That will keep you from breaking needles and also from having huge, gaping stab holes in your finished work. :)

It's insane to see how big of a change researching makes to the final product 🤩 The Heimerdinger is SUPER cute and looks great!!

Recently I was playing with the bit of laffy Taffy and realize how easy it is to mold as well as sculpt and it got me thinking that someone could make an entire sculpture out of it and have it be inedible work of art I think if anyone could do this I would be you

I love that you have done this. Thanks for sharing 😊

Heimerdinger!!! Oh I LOVE him! He turned out great! (Interested in what your take on League may be after trying it 👀) Needle felting is something I picked up pretty randomly but it is really fun! I think it's way easier than clay to sculpt with and get the results I want. It's also a decent relaxation tool. Stab the anger out! lol I haven't made many pieces but this has absolutely inspired me to work on more!

OMG I LOVE THEM!! Those little characters are so friking CUTE! I tried needle felting before but went right away with things with armature and thin limbs, so it didn't go very well and I soon got tired of it. But after watching this, I kinda want to give it a different approach and try again!

i make felted art dolls and i use a single needle in a couple different sizes, its always surprising to people the amount of angles involved

So glad I found this channel! Very relaxing and informative at the same time

I've really gotten interested in needle felting myself. It's so cool how much you can do with so little. Also, you can make a base in clay or foam or whatever and add wool later.

Honestly, I'd love to see even more Needle Felting from you! It was really cool to see and satisfying.

I’ve been watching Jazza for years and I’ve recently been obsessed with Arcane so hearing him talk about how he liked it (and talk about it in general) made me very happy lol, love the heimmerdinger!

The slow addition of more and more bandaids did me in🤣 awesome job though!

I love how you are always trying new things!!! As a hobbyist felter I loved this video - reminded me of when I first started to felt wool myself - lots of finger injuries!! I think you should give it more of a go - look at trying to paint with wool!!!

I wander how needle felting works on a microscopic level? I know it pushes the threads into each other but it does kind of seem like magic in some ways

I just made a figure like that for my future childrensgarden-classes and I learned for myself that its easier and needs way less of the felt, when I cut the rough shape of the figure out of some sort of sponge and then covered that with felt :) by the way great videos!

I would love to see you do more needle felting!! I have some ideas! Maybe you could do a medieval diorama with a castle, a Crystal cave with ur own mythical creature, urself as a mythical creature, or maybe a felt version of ur favorite sculpture I really liked the centaur wizard you created with Nerdecrafter’s kit!

This man has all the felt he could ever need lol, this is awesome

I would love to see you tackle the realistic cat faces! Go big! Hehehe. I had seen it done, but was not understanding it, NOW I get it! I don’t wanna do it, but I get it! LOL

I, personally, love the facial hair this length! Suits you very well.

I had no idea needle felting was a thing and now I'm in love with it

Sew a string through their heads and they’re adorable fluffy Christmas tree decorations. I totally want to see more. I bought needle felting stuff myself but there wasn’t any felt fluff at my near by hobby shops except for cranberry coloured

honest i dunno why but i didn't expect you to want to do a base for this kind of thing at first some reason.. this looks so fun! I definitely wanna try it

Thanks for validating lots of different mediums....really enjoyed this and may give it a go too!

“WOW” is what i say everytime i see you make art!! its incredible

Jazza! What an inspiration! Although you might need a few bandaids...🤣🤔

Hey jazza I know it’s been a while since you tried it, wich is why I’m asking you to please try to conquer the soap sculpting challenge please

I appreciate Jazza trying this. This seems like cross-stitching to me. And i love cross-stitching, but its what you do when you need repetitive motion and counting. I think Jazza is a more....other kind of creative guy

Fantastic video once again by Jazza!! I love his enthusiasm for everything.

Cosplay, needle felting, I love how ur getting into so many different art forms! I expect a fursuit from you next 👁👁