Embroidery on Needle Felting

I recently had another of those “What if” moments.  I was adding a bead to a heart ornament and realized that the ornament looked very plain even with the heart.  So I wondered how it would look with a little running stitch of embroidery around the edge.  And I liked it. 

Heart Ornament with embellishments

So that led me to adding embroidery on other felted items just to add a little embellishment to them.  

Such as using french knots for the eyes of some dolphin ornaments. 

French knot eyes on dolphin

Or adding a little sparkle to an ornament with metallic thread.

Sparkle on Red needle Felted Ball

How about creating the laces on what will be a football ornament. 

Laces on a football

When you do embroidery on fabric you have the knots and stitches on the back side of the fabric.  But with needle felting you don’t have that because you can felt over the knots and stitches.

Back of the football 

Just take a little roving and cover the back side and felt it in and the knots are gone.  Just a little advice: don't felt too deep or the needle might come through the embroidery and ruin your stitches. 

Felted the knots away

So the next time you are needle felting something, add a little interest to your piece and do some embroidery.

©2017  Cheryl Fillion