Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Needle Felting at Last!

We'd thought about it for a long while, we'd bought the book, some wool, needles and mats so today Oly and I made ourselves a cat each. Just the ONE cat each and they took all day! We nearly missed lunch and I couldn't come home until mine was finished. Maybe we're a bit slow or too meticulous but we had expected to have made a few more animals after 7 hours!
It was really good fun, we really enjoyed making them although we both started off with a strange shape looking more like a duck, then a penguin, a dog.... but finally they started to adopt the right posture and the right faces for cats - well, we thought so, maybe wishful thinking but we are really happy with our first ever attempts and despite a few stray finger jabs here and there, neither of us drew blood!
Here is my little cat, he's very tiny so as I couldn't use beads for eyes, I jabbed in some green wool. His little pink nose looks a bit like a pig from the wrong angle but he's been welcomed by the children, even if the little girl is being rude to him!
He sits just over 1" to the tip of his ears.
We used the book 'Little Felted Animals' which is a great starter book with loads of different animals to make. We scanned the pattern page, reducing it roughly to1/3rd which made it a bit easier to make dollshouse size. Oly made the standing cat which turned out lovely. I'll try to get her to show him on her blog.
Bye for now,


20 comments:

  1. Awww your little cat is precious! I just love needle felted critters!
    Well done you for 'having a go' & doing such a wonderful job!
    Hugs! :) x

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  2. Great job! I'm about to try my hand at needle felting too. Same book, same everything. Something must be in the air! Your kitty turned out adorable. xo Jennifer

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  3. So sweet, he's just beautiful.

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  4. Hi Gillian!
    Your cat came out so cute. I love the blue eyes. I've tryed to do felting some time ago. I used some shaped superlon inside and stitched the wool with the needle onto the superlon. Maybe it would work in miniature sized works also?

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  5. Awww hes so cute 7 hours or not you made a lovely job of him! Love the little doll too! x

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  6. Fantastico!!!
    Besos de las Malu´s.

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  7. Wonderful results! The kitten is very cute!
    Hugs, Drora

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  8. He is very cute :) Thank you very much for my gifts they are all beautiful I love them.
    Hugs Maria

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  9. Te ha quedado estupendo. Yo también he probado y la verdad es que es muy divertido y agradable ¡menos los pinchazos que te pegas en los dedos!!!!. Un saludo, Eva

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  10. That is super cute! And a first time? No way! I hear if you stick the needle in your finger it does serious damage. I better stay away from needle felting and leave it to natural talent like yours! Great job!
    hugs
    Caroline

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  11. How sweet!!! My baby sister loves wool felting, too.

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  12. Great job!!!!! I find needle felting very difficult, I think you made a super cutie!!!!!
    hugs
    Eli

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  13. un trabajo magnifico , yo tambien he empezado con la lana cardada , pero solo he hecho ositos por el momento

    besitos

    Mari

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