Iris

This is little Iris. She's 8 1/4 inches tall and her fur is soft angora and alpaca wool. Her eBay auction starts tonight.

Pansy & Hank

Here's two that I used the reverse needles on.  I first found out about them through Joanne's blog Desert Mountain Bears. She does the most amazing Teddies. If you're not familiar with her work, you really should check it out. Since then, I have found two other felting friends using them, Helen Priem and Victor Dubrosky. They both do amazing work as well. It's interesting how differently we all work using the same supplies and tools. I found that I like rooting the hair in as I used to and then using the reverse needles to help further lock it in.  By using the reverse needles alone I found the fur to be a bit wirey looking.  It could work rally nicely for some animals and effects.  For the bunny, I first felted him with my core wool. Then I added a layer of dark brown wool on top.  Next I felted a wirey llama wool of it. Then I next felted some light fawn alpaca.  After it was all finished I used the reverse needles to pull out the fibers. I really liked how it mixed the colors. But I'm not to sure I like the texture.  For a Hank, the Guinea Pig, I used a black romney wool for the core and felted mohair into it. I then used the reverse needles to pull wool through. It worked really well for locking in the rooted mohair.

Patrick

His auction starts tonight.  I just love this hedgehog mohair.

My Neighbors and Totoro

I just love coincidences! And I've been having a lot of them lately. As you probably know, I live in a very tiny town of 150 people, if you count chickens and dogs. I also foster the wonderful Mr. Bullet, a very sweet bull terrier boy.  Bull terriers are not the most common of breeds. You'll never guess. But my new neighbors across the street from me have a rescue bully! She's a very dainty little girl and Bullet is in love. He gets kind of moony eyed and stares at her from across the street.

My second coincidence, is that the other day I had just finished photographing a birthday present that I made for my son, when I noticed Helen Priem's post of her birthday present that she was sending. So here is what I made Jeremiah.

Penny, a Little Spring Duckling

Here's little Penny. Her eBay auction starts tonight at the usual time of 6:45 Pm PST.

Percival & Petunia

I finished little Petunia, today. And quite by accident, I noticed how cute they were together when you place their mats side by side. Initially, I wanted to put Petunia in my Etsy store.  But they looked so cute together that it would be a shame not see them go to the same buyer.  Petunia is up for auction on eBay now.

A Hedgehog, Retrospective

Percival, pictured at top, is my latest hedgie. I used a specialty mohair fur for his spines. I kind of felt like it was cheating a bit.  But I really like how he turned out. I have enough left over to start really playing with making hedgehogs. I'm kind of excited about making more. Percival's eBay auction starts Sunday at the usual time.