After sticking your finger with a sharp needle for what is probably the hundredth time, you start looking for solutions. I get the most sticks when building a face. Mostly when I connect the bottom lip to the top lip. Here you are trying to connect two pieces with nothing under them but your fingers, hence the pucture wounds.

When I buy new needles they, on occasion, arrive embedded in a small piece of foam. it's the same type used as a work space for needle felting. Keep these pieces. They are the perfect size to put under your work when you try to connect two pieces that have nothing under them. They also work great when you are connecting two pieces together that are small, like a fore arm to an upper arm. My puncture would count is way down. As Martha would say, "It's a good thing."

Also keep your old, used foam work space when you buy a new one. Some felting activities are just harder on the foam than others. Like when you have to do a few really good stabs that will go through and into the base. This saves my new foam base from any abuse and it will last much longer. Yes, another Martha moment. Feel free to add any good ideas you have for needle felting.

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