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Pijangibears Oct 6, 2011

I need some advice to make eyelids.
I am trying to make some, but they turned out clumcy, not nice and smooth.
Can somebody help me - please.

What I need is to make the eyelids before they are attach to the eyes.

HeidiBears Oct 6, 2011

I dont have much experience with this myself since I've only tried needle felting eyelids (more like a socket?) once but maybe I can help lead you in the right direction. I found that you have to felt it a lot harder than you think in order for the eyes to look neat, you might want to try and create like a socket, or surround the eye with the felt. Do this by felting a seperate strip first and then applying it around the eye itself. After your done you could apply some kind of acrylic sealer to the eye lids- that will harden them up so that you can trim all of the little fuzzies away. I followed Joanne livingstons blog (Desert mountain bears) as I worked on my bears eyes ; she posts really good detailed instructions on how to needle felt the eyes along with lots of pictures... you might want to check it out as well  .

Pijangibears Oct 7, 2011

Thank you. you did understand what I meant  . It was the strip that looks clumcy. I will check out Desert mountain's blog 

desertmountainbear Oct 11, 2011

Are you trying to needle felt them, or are you wanting eyelids made of some kind of fabric?

Joanne

Pijangibears Oct 11, 2011

I am trying to needlefelt them like one lond strand, so I can apply eyelashes, and then needlefelt them on.
I have tried to make one, but it was flat and clumsy. I did make them over a stick and left some wool to attach them.
Maybe I should try to needlefelt them on a wire - with no loose felt?
Do I glue the eyelashes on the wool or on the eye?
The eyelids will be put on a hole needlefelted animal.

desertmountainbear Oct 11, 2011

Here is the post I wrote about felting the face.  At the end I show you how I felt in the eyelids.  Heidi is right, you really need to start out with much more wool than you think and keep poking with the needle.  This will give you a nice firm eyelid to work with.

I really don't use eyelashes so I can't help you out there.  You would just have to be careful with the glue around the felt.  The wool is so flat (no shine) that I think that you will see a shine on it where the glue would be.

http://desertmountainbear.blogspot.com/ … 20a%20face

Joanne

BeauT Bears Oct 11, 2011

Hallo Birgitte,

I don't know if you already worked out your needlefelting 'problem' with the help of Joanne's tutorial and the remarks by the others, but I know EbearZ University offers online needlefelting courses (against payment    , by Judy Paul.
Here's the link to their Felted Faces course:   http://www.kranbearys.com/Ebearz/Bears/FeltedFaces.htm

Good luck!

Pijangibears Oct 20, 2011

Thank you all for the good advices 
I tryed needlefelt my stripe a lot harder than I did the first time, and I uses a needlesize 43 gauge
and voila - my eyelid is just perfect. It is so neat.  :dance:
Now I will try to glue the eyelashes to the stripe (with caution).

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TraceyF Nov 9, 2011

I have tried doing my own eyelids and it mine also tend to come out looking a little less 'pretty'
I have found though that if you needle felt some wool in to a strip and felt in on over the eye then it should hopefully work well - I can't seem to get mine to be hard enough before felting to the face and end up with half an eyelid.

Good luck