I have another felting project to share.  This one is reminiscent of Shirley from Shaun the Sheep. I love watching stop motion clay movies – it’s always incredible what they can do and the amount of time it takes to make them.  Anyway, this idea is from some wool balls that I found on Amazon and thought it would be easy to CASE it.  So I convert one of my Mom’s wool balls so she would have a friend to do laundry with. I didn’t take a picture, but I added a small tail on the other side. 

Feeling a little felty?  He he he.  I have another felt friend that I finished – this one is a Dimensions Hedgehog needle felting kit.  I like the needles that come with the Dimensions kits so I’ll probably buy a couple more.  This turned out close the instructions but not exactly – I had trouble attaching the feet so I changed the angle a little.  It still works out but I need to practice that technique a little more. 

Tweet, tweet, tweet.  This is a felted bird I created using the De Witte Engel Birthday Bird kit.  It actually has a odd story to go along with him.  I purchased the kit about two years ago – it was a beginning kit and would be my first experience with felting.  OK, good, this was something I could handle.  Little did I know what I was getting myself into.  After breaking my needles, I purchased replacements only to loose them.  I found other replacement needles but had then lost the bird.  Arg!   I found the bird a month later but, you guessed it, my needles were now missing.  This just wasn’t in the stars for me so I gave up.  But not really, as you can plainly see, I found it and my needles a couple weeks ago.  Voila! 

Here are some more fun felting projects that I did with my girls.  These foxes were created from kits.  The one I did is a “Dimensions Craft Fox” and the girls use the “Klutz Felted Friends” kit.  It was a fun project to do together. This guy’s not for throwing and I think I’ll put him on my craft desk to watch over me.  😀

I have yet to tell them the felting joke… you know, the one right?  You point to anything (that isn’t felted) and ask them if that’s felt.  When they say no, then touch it, and say “well, it is now.”  Hardy-har-har

I’ve been branching out and having some fun with felting.  I use the “Woolbuddy Felting Frog” kit for this little guy.  It was my first experience so I made some mistakes and I think the eyes are all wrong.  I even broke my three needles that I had.  Boo-hoo!  But it was still so much fun that I bought another kit and even one for my girls to play with.  This guy will be perfect to toss around and have some fun with – he’s built pretty firm so I doubt anything can mess him up.  Update: Yeah, I was wrong and the dog proved that to me. LOL