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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Needle Felting Dogs and Cats: A Beginner's Guide to Expressive Faces, Secure Joins, and Pets with Personality

Needle Felting Dogs and Cats: A Beginner's Guide to Expressive Faces, Secure Joins, and Pets with Personality

Goodman, Ruby

Paperback

Toys & Models

ISBN13: 9798194906819
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.31 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
A dog circles twice before it settles at the foot of the bed. A cat freezes mid-stride, ears swiveling toward a sound only it can hear, then decides, half a second later, that the moment wasn't worth the fuss after all. Every pet owner has watched small, unrepeatable moments like these and known instantly, without stopping to think about it, exactly which animal on the whole street they belonged to, the one asleep at the foot of one particular bed and no one else's, winding around one particular set of ankles.

This book turns that kind of noticing into two learnable skills: a face that reads as a real, specific expression, and a join sturdy enough to survive years of being picked up, hugged, and occasionally chewed.

Nine Pets, Two Skills, No Guesswork

  • Shape a firm wool core into a ball, an oval, and a cylinder before any project asks for anything harder than that basic shape first.
  • Place eyes and ears so a face reads as alert, relaxed, or watchful, the same small cues real dogs and cats rely on every single day.
  • Anchor a head, four legs, and a tail with a folded-tab join, a wire pin, or a full internal wire armature built to hold firm for years.
  • Layer a short, sleek coat or a full Persian-style coat with no bald patches and no hard, painted-looking seams anywhere at all on it.
  • Blend brindle, tricolor, tabby stripes, and color-point markings so each one reads as grown into the wool, never applied on top of it.
  • Pose a stretching cat or a standing Labrador on four independently wired legs that hold real weight without ever wobbling once at all.
  • Nine complete figures wait at the end of it: a sitting beagle puppy, a stretching cat caught mid-yawn, a Persian, a Siamese, and more.

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