Makerss Masterclass - Harvest Mouse with Agnese Davies

Welcome to our brand new Makerss Masterclass Series! 

In this video masterclass we explore how to needle felt a Harvest Mouse.

Join award-winning artist, Agnese Davies, in her 5 part Needle Felt Masterclass as she teaches how to create a realistic harvest mouse. Agnese will take you through how to make the mouse step-by-step. With techniques covering 3D shaping, surface decoration and fibre blending.

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Agnese's Harvest mouse Masterclass List of materials:

• Hamilworth #26 L.36cm Paper covered florist wire
• Round, black 3mm glue in glass eyes
• Glue (PVA glue pen is easiest)
• Pink, hard beeswax (woolly wax)
• Natural beeswax (bars available from bee keepers)
• White nail varnish (I use UV one, but you need UV light for that too)
• Mod-Podge and paint brush for applying (optional as you can just use PVA glue too)
• Cat hair for whiskers (maybe fine dog ones would work too, everyone has a friend
  with a short haired cat, don't they?

Wool (you only need small amounts and shades are optional, I mix mine and choose different shades with different mice. 20g of each could make hundreds of mice)

• Core wool- I personally prefer lanolin rich, but use what you are most comfortable
  with
• White Extra fine merino
• Light grey Merino roving tops
• Pale brown roving tops
• Beige roving tops
• Medium brown roving tops
• Manx Loaghtan
• Brown roving tops
• Flesh pink tops (for tail and feet)
• Cape merino –natural creamy white short carded batts (for muzzle cheeks and chin)
• Dark brown or black wool for adding shape of the eyes around the black beed- tiny amount.

Additional tools, you may already have some:

• Wax heater
• Hair straighteners
• Pliers
• Wire cutters
• Good scissors
• Tweezers
• Candle and basic metal ball sculpting tools
• Brush matt
• Multiple needle puncher
• Tooth brush- for combing-sorting fur
• Ball end pins –short ones (a helpful guide where to put both ears before felting)
• Your favourite felting needles (of course!)
• Pyrography tool with flat leaf looking tip (as seen in my video Masterclass)
  

I wish you good luck with the project, for any questions please email me personally at [email protected]