From near the smallest to near the largest – both in the real world and the felt universe: the new feature is a foot-long Beluga Whale. Sliding weights allow the figure to stand upright, as here, or balance neatly on nose and flippers.

Welcome to the Salamander Feltworks, where fiber and imagination blend to bring a world to life via the craft of needle felting. Needle felting takes advantage of wool’s natural tooth — the little flanges along each fiber that make it want to hold on to its own kind — to build solid structures out of fluffy wisps. For more on the process, see In the Workshop.

Is there a creature in your heart or home that you’d like to see and keep in felt? A pet? A mythological or heraldic beast? Something from a song or dream or story? E-mail the Salamander and describe what you have in mind. The Salamander may help it come alive for you....