{"id":1836,"date":"2009-11-17T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T01:29:52","slug":"how-young-can-you-start-needle-felting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/how-young-can-you-start-needle-felting\/","title":{"rendered":"How young can you start needle felting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1244 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid #A8A5A9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/little_bear-needlefelted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">I often get asked &#8220;How easy is needle felting?&#8221; and &#8220;How young can you start needle felting?&#8221;, so I asked the opinion of two experts in the field &#8211; <\/span>Marie Spalding<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> (US based Felting Artist) and<\/span> Barbara Allen<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> (New Zealand based needle felting author who designed this gorgeous needle felted baby bear!)<\/span><br \/>\n<br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more-->I have to admit , I wasn&#8217;t sure. As a beginner myself, I found it simple enough but I thought it best to ask the experts!<\/p>\n<p>Based on their responses, I put together an info page under the toy-making information section on the Funky Friends Factory website to give you a bit of an idea of what age is old enough to try needle felting for the first time.Or simply click on this link to find out more &#8211;\u00a0Needle Felting &#8211; how easy is it?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> .<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4105\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"153\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> .<\/span><br \/>\n<strong> Happy Sewing,<br \/>\nPauline : )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked &#8220;How easy is needle felting?&#8221; and &#8220;How young can you start needle felting?&#8221;, so I asked the opinion of two experts in the field &#8211; Marie Spalding (US based Felting Artist) and Barbara Allen (New Zealand based needle felting author who designed this gorgeous needle felted baby bear!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}