Felting Tragedy

This is what happens when your cat decides to play with your felted sock monkey!  Cats LOVE felted toys and these sock monkeys are not hard enough to resist the attack for long.

Another flower

This flower was made by laying out the fiber in a circle.  I used a layer of silk Hankie on top and wet felted the fiber working it in all directions. Attach the stem to the back side, make the stamen and needle to attach to the inside.

Spring Flowers

It's spring so I've decided to tackle flowers.  These were created by felting two colors of merino over a small smooth rock.  The rock is wrapped first with several thin "ropes", that fiber becomes the stamen.  They are mainly wet felted but I did use needle felting to correct some problems and to add the leaves - which were then lightly wet felted.

Hearts

A couple weeks ago I got the urge to felt something - anything! I dug out some red and pink fiber and needle felted hearts using a cookie cutter as a mold. I tried needle felting slogans but decided to use beads as accents instead.

Catching Up

Wow, I didn't realize how long it's been since I posted. Most of these use baby doll wool as the core, the monkey, moose, and squirrel are mostly baby doll.  I love the way it felts.  I haven't done much wet felting lately (except for a botched spiral scarf) but I plan to get back to it when I have a slow day!

Hedgehog

 

 

 

 

Moose

Squirrel

My sister sent a picture of a fox in her backyard so I made her this felt version.

Willow Ptarmigan - I added catnip between the layers so the bird didn't last too long!

Sock Monkeys!

Thanks to a set of instructional DVD's from Felt Alive, I was able to create a felt version of my husband's Second Life avatar.  I'm still working on the guitar, trying to get it to stay put!

Sock monkey and friend

I made my first "sock monkey" on my trip to San Diego for the Discovery Summer Institute and made two more while attending a gathering of Second Life musicians in Montreal.  They're easy to make and so cute.  I used Baby Doll wool, it needle felts so quickly and is the perfect color for the monkeys.  Some of the people I met in Montreal suggested making them for various holidays.  I just learned my supplier for the Baby Doll wool has sold her sheep so I'm buying a pound of wool from her stock - that should make a lot of monkeys! I've also made rabbits, squirrels and a boxer with this wool.