Posts tagged ‘wool’

I hosted a crafty play date at my house this morning for some mommies, Jenn and Mary, from the Stitch N Bitch group. The kids rough housed and played dress up while we turned my dining room table into a roving mountain. We felted things up using the same techniques I posted about here. More owls were made, and some little beads I want to make into earrings at a later date. But my favorite things I made today were my little felted shoes for Cressida and this wreath ornament for my Christmas tree (which we have yet to put up).

Jenn provided the roving, and she left a bunch with me. Now I am feeling like I either need to do a lot more felting, or learn how to spin…

This morning I had a crafty get together with my Sister-in-Law Emily and we worked on some wool owls together. Emily came up to Crafty Mart and bought this owl from one of the vendors. If someone knows who it was, please let me know, I don’t have his contact information and I want to link to his shop if possible. (Juniper informed me that this is from threebearsdesign.com)

We loved this little inspiration owl so much we needed to make some friends for him. Using brown, white and orange wool roving we felted up three more owls.

There were two different techniques we used to make them. The first was to felt four ounces of brown roving with soapy hot water until it was a nice firm ball. There is a tutorial on that here, on theartofmegan’s Flickr. Once we had our round owl bodies we needle felted their facial featured and bellies on. You can see the needle felting tool we used in the picture of Emily.

I love these little guys so much. I would love to make a bunch of other animals to go along with our owl. I was thinking mice and bunnies would be good. But it might make more sense to make reindeer for Christmas. I wonder how I could pull that off?