An angel needle-felted onto polystyrene

1   Cut off the top of the polystyrene egg.

2   Tear a small tuft of carded wool and felt it onto the polystyrene egg until it is covered using the felting needle.

3   Glue on a wooden head and cotton yarn or other thin yarn for the hair.

4   Gather the hair (in bunches) at the end and tie on bows.

5   Cut out the angel's hat from the template which is available as a separate PDF file on this page. Needle felt a flat piece from carded wool the roughly same size as the hat from the template. Place the template on top of the needle-felted carded wool and felt along the edge with the felting needle. Fold the loose carded felt over and felt it on.

6   Fold the hat and felt it together.

7   Sew rocaille seed beads onto the angel's body.

8   Glue two pieces of felt together using a glue gun. Cut out the wings from the template and place it on top of the felt. Cut out the wings from felt.

9   Sew rocaille seed beads onto the hat and the wings.

10   Glue the head and the wings onto the angel.

11   Sew a piece of cotton yarn for hanging through the hat.

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