Felted posing

I found with felted mice it is more about the posing than the mouse it self check out Ralph s mouse and friend

Felted polyfil unicorn

Haven't posted in a while been working on a few different projects a few were utter failures and not worth posting.  This felted unicorn worked out pretty well . I used some of sarafina fiber arts pony instructions but that made it a little too far so I had to trim the belly . It is made almost completely of fiberfill I bought 2 pounds of it from Joann fabrics on line. The hooves are wool as I have not been able to try dyeing the poly fil yet.

Break from felting

Chaucers canterberry tale prologue in middle English.
I was forced to memorize and recite this in high school. It haunts me to this day.

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote 
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, 
And bathed every veyne in swich licour 
Of which vertu engendred is the flour; 
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth 
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth 
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne 
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, 
And smale foweles maken melodye, 
That slepen al the nyght with open ye 
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages); 
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, 
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, 
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; 
And specially from every shires ende 
Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, 
The hooly blisful martir for to seke, 
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. 

Opportunity Pirate Fest Crew

Opportunity Pirate Fest Crew



volunteer at this fest to get free admission. this is the cool boat kids will make at the raingutter regatta.

Needle felted giraffe tips

Ok so I learned a lot from this experiment. I was very intimidated by having to add all the spots. three lessons I learned.

First if you are going to apply spots directly to the giraffe then you need to be sure it is very firm before you start if it is still mushy the spots go in and the space between them will be too wide when finished. one option is to create a sheet of spots using the brush and multi-needle punch tool to make the spots flat and even.

 

 

The other thing I tried was to make the spots angular like in real life I feted a sheet of brown with the multi tool and brush pad. then I cut with scissors (heaven forbid) the sheet into the angular shapes and felted them one I really like the control this method gave me.

 

I also had to pull off the horns cut them smaller and place them closer to the eyes as they were too far back. That cutting worked well also.

 

 

Fixing mistakes in a needle felted piece

I read a lot of posts and most of them said do not cut your felted sculptures that you should always pull it apart so that isn't always  possible and you know what I don't think its even necessary I've cut my things apart many times and I've been able to cover it up and make it look just fine so I don't know what they are saying when they say don't cut it I've been just fine by cutting my things especially when I make something too skinny I cut it up the middle shove a ball inside and then seal it back-up seems to work just fine for me.

sculptural effects with polyfil felting

I really like needle felting with polyester stuffing i call it polyfil. it is a pain that it only comes in white but I have been able to get faster and better sculptural effects. it is probably hard to see but i even had some feather effects on the owl chest and of course his face. i suspect i am either using the wrong wool or i am just not poking it long enough. 

I should have a better idea if it is me or the wool once i try my kool aid dyed wool. this is the first sculpture with a glass pebble eyes it was kind of opalescent i painted the back black and yellow its kind of a neat effect but will take a lot more practice to get right any small imperfection is multiplied by the magnification of the water drop shape. This is for my mom. I made my mother in law a dolphin. I am going to bring my felting stuff to try and get my mother or sister interested in felting with me my mom likes sculpture with clay and my sister is a crochet fanatic so they are good candidates.

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