Feltlicious: Needle-Felted Treats to Make & Give

by Kari Chapin, Kerri Wessel

Bestselling author Kari Chapin ( The Handmade Marketplace ) and needle-felting artist Kerri Wessel concoct a delightful “cookbook” of more than 30 amazing felted foods. The menu features such fare as Good Morning breakfast dishes; Diner Delights; Farmer's Market fruits and vegetables; Sweet Tooth desserts; and Holiday Treats—like heart-shaped lollipops for Valentine's Day. Also detailed instructions for turning these tasty-looking projects into snack-size jewelry, magnets, ornaments, hairclips, and paperweights.

Genres: Crafts, Nonfiction, How To

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 2013

Reviews

[Pumpkin Spice]

Feltlicious has cute felting projects of food.

[Piper Gee]

Feltlicious has a nice variety of different needle felting projects all in the food theme. Some of my favorites include the Root Beer Float, Pumpkin Pie, Macaron and Pop Tart. Each project has beautiful photo of the finished item and step by step color photos to guide you in making your own. This keeps it easy to understand and beautiful to look at. I also liked that it goes into shading your pieces, something I haven't really seen included in other needle felting books. Depending on what you are working on, this can have a really cool effect. I like when diagrams for actual sizing are included. It's nice to check your work and make sure size wise you are on the right track. These aren't included, however this doesn't hinder my ability to follow the instructions and complete the projects.

If you have never needle felted before, there is a section on the front of the book that goes over tools you will need and how it is done. If you are still not quite sure, try looking up needle felting tutorials on youtube. There are many good ones, I recommend Maqaroon and Flying Mio in particular. Sometimes actually watching someone do it will make evetything click everything into place for you. It is a fun, relaxing craft, so don't give up! It's very rewarding.

[Ligaya]

The little needle-felted food projects in this book are just absolutely ADORABLE! Step-by-step instructions and photographs make it seem as if you can do it, as well! After several pages of tools and techniques, the authors dive straight into the projects. I've not seen felted items w such realism. They talk a lot about the importance of highlights, but there's a fair amount of shading going on too, that gets glossed over. Nonetheless, a really good book on the craft.

[Leslie]

Have been curious about felting for awhile. Great visual and easily read instructions made me think that if I tried this I might actually be successful in my crafting attempts.

[Bel]

Adorable food-inspired felting projects to make and give. Clear concise photos and steps.

[Iroquois]

Pretty good! I think I'll take this up stat, and join my friend in entrepreneurship:)