VIDEO: Needle Felted Panda
*This cute project has been updated since video 🙂
Panda Pal
To get started on your needle-felted panda, check out our tools and materials list below. Starting with a 4cm wool felt ball, you can simply wrap the roving wool around and felt into place to create the egg shape of your panda body. Once the body is formed, you can sculpt it with the felting technique to add the nose and tail. With the cut shapes from black wool-blend felt it will be simple to add all of the black details to the white panda, finishing it with our special needle felting eyes and a handmade sprig of felt bamboo.
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How adorable is this needle-felted panda? This is a simple DIY project for all skill levels, including kids who are comfortable using a felting needle. Of course, we also had to create some cute, little bamboo leaves out of wool blend felt for our panda pal.
Our tutorial will walk you through each step to creating your own needle-felted panda, but be sure to reach out if you have any questions!
How to Make a Needle-Felted Panda
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the pattern.
- Starting with the 4cm wool ball, wrap roving wool around and needle felt to shape an egg with the 36g needle.
- Continue refining and smoothing with middle 38g needle.
- Finish the egg shape with the finest 40g needle.
Full tutorial available for members to download above.
Explore More
If you enjoy this needle-felted panda with its tiny bamboo, you may also like our larger crepe paper bamboo plant. You can also explore all of our needle-felted animals for more ideas. To make the mini bowls pictured above, check out our tutorial here.
Tools
Optional Tools
- Tailor’s Awl
- Needle-Nose Tweezers
- Stuffing Tool
- Quilting Pins
- Embroidery Needle
- Needle Felting Finger Protectors
Materials
- Needle Felting Roving Wool – Licorice and Natural White
- Wool Blend Felt – Black, Juniper, and Eucalyptus
- Craft Eyes for Needle Felting – 3mm
- Wool Felt Ball – 4cm cotton color or Needle Felting Core Wool
- Embroidery Floss – DMC Avocado Green
- Art Glitter Glue
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2 Comments
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POLLY
July 24, 2018 at 2:40pm
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Lia
July 25, 2018 at 8:37am
@POLLY
Back to the TopThese are the most adorable pandas I have seen anywhere and they are incredibly easy to make. After seeing your patterns for needle felting, I purchased all that was required to make these sweeties. It all sat in a drawer, while I sat feeling intimidated by the process. Once begun, however, I was surprised and oh so happy by how easy needle felting is. So far, I have made a penguin, a pig, and am now working on a panda.
Thanks for providing these….would love to see more of these precious animals.
Oh Polly I’m so happy to hear this! We definitely have plans for more needle felted friends 🙂