I may have been drawn into Needle Felting as much by the beautiful raw materials as I was by the oh-so-cute finished products. The wool roving, or "fluff" as I like to call it, comes in every luscious color you can imagine. 
Aside from the Fluff, all you need is a few specially barbed needles and a thick spongy pad to poke into. Here’s what it looks like to work on needle felting:
You just poke, poke, poke the wool roving with a barbed needle. {disclaimer – please don’t hold the thing you’re working on like I am holding that tree – you’ll stab your finger! I was just holding it like that for the photo.}
I am such a novice at this, so if you’re an expert needle felter, I hope you don’t cringe at my description of how this process works! :o) Basically, after poking hundreds of times, the barbs start to knot up the wool against itself and it begins to take shape in the areas you poke. It seems very magical! And when you hand someone a needle felted peice, they almost always ask, "what’s in it?" because the wool can really get quite firm. They feel like little stuffed things with soft wool on the outside.
This is the first little project I made: