Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", hamster wheel, monster, needle felting, tail on October 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
i started making this guy on friday… i thought he looked a little rodent like so went to the pet store and bought him a toy for inspiration.
he needed a rodent like tail, so i lightly felted a long piece of wool.
i wanted to get cartoon like ribbing on the tail and but needle felting [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", hurri-crafting, hurricane ike, lamp, lucie, needle felting on September 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
what does one do when there is no power for 2 days? well, you craft of course…and then you clean your craft room. lucie is a needle felted puppet that i never finished because there was always something about her that i didnt like…her face, her mouth…her ears.
then along came hurricane ike and a [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", bat, craft, kiyoshi, needle felting, umbrella on September 8, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Meet Kiyoshi 淳!
last week i set out to needle felt a bat with wings made with umbrella parts. his wings turned out better than i thought they would because they have a full range of motion despite the wool. when i was almost done felting him,i decided to try a cabbage dye to give him [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged bat, craft, needle felting, plush, umbrella on September 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
i went a little batty yesterday when i got sick of making sugar foots. i have been wanting to make a bat for a while now, but i wasn’t sure how i would approach it.
should he be sweet or mean? white, black or some random color? i still don’t know.
i did know that i wanted [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", "sugar foots", donny, tabasco on September 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
i finally got over my fear of polymer clay! i have had a stash of translucent and flesh colored clays for years now, but have been too afraid of phthalates to use them. i knew when i started making the sugar foots that i would have to get over it. sugar foots need teeth and [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, tagged "sugar foots", candy, carving, stamp on September 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
sugar foots bunny stamp!
i went all stamp happy today. i was trying to create a logo for licorice tree and got side tracked making candy and sugar foots. i made…
a peppermint…
some candy corn…
a lollipop…
some random wrapped candy…
a possible logo…im not so sure i like him.
AND
a cherry.
its break time, but i still need to clean up [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged dye, halloween, horns, needle felting on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i needle felted some horns last night…gotta get ready for the holidays. maybe i will FINALLY put something on my etsy page.
made a bunch more this morning and dyed them pinks and reds
ooooh, boiling horns…
the horns are a-drying right now. once they are completely dry, i will sew clips on them and tighten up the [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", "sugar foots", felt, needle felting, wool on August 27, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I finished my second sugar foots yesterday, sliced the nose off of my first one (i cant get it right) and almost finished the third. I think #3 is the best by far. i will post him tommorow.
Sugar foots #2 waffle eater made me proud when he was featured in the Craftzine blog and [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", "sugar foots", "tea dyed", totem, waffle on August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i made alot of stuff this weekend to make up for the mini travel break. where shall we start…
i finished the hawk for the plush totem and needle felted all of the pieces together and decided to dye it with tea to make it look like a wooden totem. it took a long time to [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged owl, totem on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i am out of town traveling with the hubby, so totem progress has not been that great. i have started the owl and the cat so far, but they both need COLOR…and more personality…
i usually go through a period when i hate whatever i am working on- if i love it the whole way through, [...]
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