Needle felted styrofoam head

I have bought some lovely vibrant sari yarn as an embellishment for my project, using it around the dress area. This is a bit fiddly but once I have needle felted blue inbetween it should look ok.




The head wear is really awkward, most things were too heavy and Geraldine kept toppling over backwards.

So....I bought some funky foam, couldn't get it in the colour that I wanted, had to buy pink!.but with a few ready made felt squares this won't be a problem.

She looks abit like she is doing a Tommy Cooper impression at the moment, but hopefully this will change the more I work on her, although I do wish that I had gone for navy felt, not to worry though as I want this to be bright and very colourful.

Needle felted styrofoam head

I have done a bit more to my  Nefertiti and covered her head for the time being because she was embarrassed by the state of the back view!

Her mouth is almost finished, I just add a bit of felt here and there as in certain light I can see where I need to put more colour.

I need to embellish her clothes and sort out her head gear, it's the head gear that is going to be the real challenge, so I will do that last, when I am happy with her face.

She is much happier now that her head is covered and her identity is starting to form!

Needle Felted Styrofoam

I am so addicted to needle felting and wet felting that I had to start up a huge project involving a styrofoam head.

I have felted styrofoam balls and egg shapes before and am also working on a foam ring that is almost finished, but I just can't put this head down!

I have covered it in light skin coloured felting wool and used black wool for the eyes, deep red for the mouth and will embellish the front dress area with blue/green/red and gold.

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She has been nick named "Geraldine" by friends, but as she progresses her name will be changed, perhaps abit more regal!

It is very easy and extremely theraputic, just pull off a small amount of wool and lay it on the foam and push the needle into the foam moving across the area until smooth.

She looks really freaky, but is slowly developing into a woolly beauty in a needle felted sort of way!

I am quite happy with her eyes, but they're not finished yet!

I need to get together some more supplies and I think she is going to become quite difficult on certain parts but I am looking forwards to the challenge!

I will put more pics up as I progress, which hopefully will be very soon! :)