Needle Felted Sea Turtle Time Lapse

Find my online video course at This time lapse edit of the making of my Sea Turtle felted wool sculpture compresses 19 hours of stabby needle felting into 6 minutes of video. This quick view will give a good sense of the order of operations I use for a complex felt sculpture like this one. I start with a simple outline drawing to track relative scale of the parts, and work through making the shell and limbs and spend a good deal of time sculpting the face. I test how the pieces fit together and make changes, then add color and details before joining the component parts together. I insert a wire armature when the piece is nearly complete, then do a little more detailing before mounting it onto a simple base. I go much further in depth with this project in my online video-based workshop ’Sculptural Needle Felting: The Comprehensive Guide.’ The Sea Turtle is a “Bonus Project“ at the end of the techniques-based class; it is one of six projects tha