クリスのソウルであるハートをフェルトで作りました。

材料はアクレーヌというアクリルのフェルト綿です。

小さい方はクリスに縫い込み、大きい方は持たせます。

I made Kris’s SOUL, the red heart, out of felt.

The material is called “Acrylane(Aclaine),” an acrylic felting wool.

Here we go!

I made this tiny Sans! I made him to text out some aclaine fiber I ordered a while ago. Aclaine is a felting fiber made of acrylic, it is perfect for people with wool allergies and is vegan friendly.

Anyways, aclaine is kind of expensive. So to save the little I have I made his core out of some polyfil batting I had lying around. Sans’ zipper is silver polyester embroidery thread and I made his zipper pull out of a sequin I heavily modified.

Sans stands at 3"s tall and featured a simple wire armature. He can stand on his own with a little fiddling and can be posed.

No fingers this time guys, even I have my limits as to how small I can go before fingers become impossible.

Anyways, I am giving Sans away!

If you wish to possess this cutie, follow the instructions bellow

GIVE AWAY INFORMATION!

To win Sans all you have to do is reblog this post, follow my tumblr and tell me why you should stay in Hell’s Kitchen!

I’m kidding.

You just have to reblog and follow. Telling me why you should stay in HK is optional and entirely for my amusement. It will not get you any extra entries.

You do not have to keep following me after the draw, but you should because I make cool things and I will probably hold other giveaways if this goes well. 😉

One reblog and follow = 1 entry

Reblogging multiple times will not get you extra entries. One entry per person.

You have until July 21st, 2017 at 11:59pm to enter. I will use a random list generator to draw for a winner after that time.

I will then contact the winner of the giveaway and they will have until Sunday July 23, 2017 at 11:59 pm to contact me. If the winner fails to contact me, I will redraw for a new winner.

RULES:

- The winner must be willing to give me their mailing address.

I can’t send you your prize if I don’t have an address. I will not share your address with anyone. I will delete your information as soon as Sans is on his merry way. This is the only thing I will mail to you.

- If you are under the age of 18, you absolutely must have permission from your parent or guardian to enter.

Sans is a pg feltie and I do not intend to mail anything that is not young person friendly. However, I am a full grown adult and I do not want to receive any messages from angry parents demanding why I, a random internet stranger, am sending spooky skeleton packages to their child.

- I will ship internationally, on my dime.

Only a Canadian address will receive tracking information. Unfortunately, Canada Post is awful and likes to nickel and dime you into oblivion. Tracking numbers for international packages is ridiculously expensive. If the winner really wants a tracking number, they can pay the difference.

- If in the unlikely situation Sans gets lost in the mail, I cannot replace him. Sorry, but them’s the breaks.

- Be cool. I probably shouldn’t have to say this and this is probably an unnecessary precaution, but if you are not the winner and you are unhappy about it, you may not harass me or the winner. I will block and report you.

Besides, you will probably get another chance to win something if next time I do a giveaway! Unless, I blocked you for harassing me or the winner, but that goes without saying.

I’m so excited to try this stuff! AAHHH!

This is aclaine, it’s an acrylic fiber that you usually find in most Japanese needle felting kits. I hear when felted it has a spongy texture and you can use it as a screen cleaner or make a kitchen sponge! Why you would want to go through the trouble of doing that is a question for the ages.

As you guys probably know by now, I love playing with new materials and tools. I’ve been meaning to try some wool alternatives. Mostly because I can’t gift or sell my pieces to wool allergic or vegan friends.

Also, because I’ve noticed some felters are snobs about using just wool. Some even poo poo the use of armatures or glass eyes and feel you should use wool for everything. I’ve seen a few instances were someone has asked about alternatives and was told there were none.

I don’t think it’s done maliciously(most of the time, assholes exist in all hobbies) and is definitely done out of ignorance some of the time, but it’s still a butt thing to do because it discourages people with allergies or ethical concerns from trying this great craft. Not to mention un-spun wool is just difficult to acquire for some people even with the internet.

I’d like to be able to be more informed about alternatives by trying them myself before recommending them.

In addition, I selfishly want more people needle felting so this craft can become more popular so that materials and tools become cheaper and more easily available.

Let’s try this again. I’m not sure if anyone else has issues posting with mobile, where things won’t post, but I am experiencing this now.

Aclaine review

Basic information: Aclaine is an acrylic fiber designed for needle felting that is produced by Japanese craft giant Hamanaka. It is found in many Japanese needle felting kits and is often used make cleaning sponges.

Texture: It feels like wool, but courser. Red and hot pink were probably not the best choice for a comparison photo, but as you can see they look a lot alike.

Colour availability: It comes in about 30 bright vibrant colours, natural and subdued colours leave much to be desired.

Edit: I forgot to mention it comes in single colours or multipacks of 3, 6 or 10 colours.

Feltability: Aclaine felts very very well, about as well if not better than some wools. It felts very quickly and has a nice smooth finish. It comes in batt format, rather than roving so some of the work is already done for you.

Cost: I’m gonna talk in Canadian dollars, because that is what I paid in. You can probably use currency converters to figure out how it costs where you are. Also, I ordered my pack from Japan and waited about 2 weeks for it to show up.

If Aclaine has a downside it would be it’s kind of expensive. I paid $16.65 for one of their 20gram 10 packs. That works out to $1.67/2 gram batt.

I’ve posted a couple of comparison shots up top to give you an idea of how much 2 grams of fiber is.

I am fortunate enough to live in an area with a spinning shop that sells wool roving and batts. I usually pay a little less than $5/40 grams of wool roving. That’s less than $0.25/2 grams!

Conclusion: As a fiber, I really really like aclaine. I would definitely recommend it for people with allergies or vegans. Despite how easy it is to work with, I cannot recommend it for beginners because it costs too much.

Personally, I think I’ll stick to regular wool unless a commissioner requests it specifically and would just order what I need for the project rather than keep it on hand.

I can’t justify spending more on a product that felts as well as wool and is less readily available. Plus, wool just comes in so many more textures and colours! I can’t give that up.

I would probably stick to smaller projects and definitely use polyfil for core rather than use it straight just to get more mileage out of it. As you can see by the pic showing how much I had left of each batt after Sans, a little goes a long way if you use core to get fill out your figure first. I did end up using almost all my white, because I misjudged how much core I actually needed.