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Attach the Raccoon's Nose and Trim the Facial Fur

From Lesley Shepherd, About.com

Your raccoon's face is almost finished. Work the nose into a rounded shape and trim the facial fur.
Attaching the nose to a miniature needle felted raccoon head

Attach the nose by rolling a small ball of black fibre and poking the outer edges into the bottom of the muzzle with the felting needle

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If you don't have a distinct enough nose from the previous step, roll a small ball of black fibre and fix it in place by using the needle on the edges and then punching through into the centre of the nose area. Punching around the edges of colored patches helps to define the shape of the patch. If you start working your needle in the centre, it pulls the patch smaller than you may have intended. (This is a useful technique if you go on to needle felt dogs or animals with colored patches on their faces or fur).

When you have your nose in place, hold your head by it's neck fibre and trim the facial hair so that the black mask sticks out the side of the face and the white and grey/brown layers above fan out in a widening triangle. (check a photo or a raccoon's face for reference).

If you wish, you can insert bristles from a toothbrush, or other fine brush to create the raccoon's whiskers at the side of the muzzle just below the mask. The eyes will be added later.

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