A Needle-Felted Llama (Made of 100% Llama Fiber)

I don't felt many animals, though they were great projects to learn the techniques for felting in the round. I tried my hand at a tree full of local Mid-West songbirds, a couple of sheep, etc. The idea of felting a llama had never dawned on me --- that is, until a friend wanted to learn how to felt. She has a lot of llamas, so she brought over some bags of llama fiber and we set about designing a little llama.



This is certainly a one-of-a-kind piece, as I used every last bit of the fiber that I had. Llama is extremely soft as raw fiber, but it looses a bit of that feeling once felted. It's still soft, but the fiber felts rather quickly and hard --- giving the finished piece a solid build. The body of this little fellow was felted to shape and then I felted longer pieces onto the body which received a generous haircut to give the llama his neat and trim appearance. 

Mom suggested the blue ribbon, and it gave this proud fellow a reason to hold his head up. The ribbon is felted from blue and yellow wool roving, and it is held onto the llama's neck with genuine leather thong.

This llama is available in our Etsy shop, so be sure to check him out via the link at the top of this page. Thanks for stopping by!