Felt Lettuce Tutorial
I bought a loaf of Haba Biofino Bread (they call it toast actually but I have no idea why, there isn’t anything toast-like about it) as a present for a little girl, and I wanted to make some sandwich...
View ArticleFelt Tomato Slice Tutorial
Step 1: Research! (actually step 0 was make a bad tomato I think…) Have you ever really studied tomato slices before? They are surprisingly not that symmetric. Do you slice your tomato through the...
View ArticleFelt Grass Rug
My daughter does not discriminate by species, her doll house has many animal residents, and we decided they deserved a grass lawn in the attic. We cut a bunch of medium and light green triangles and...
View ArticleHollow Wet Felted Eggs
More eggs! I made these with Rebecca last week. We used mini plastic easter eggs as the center, covered in duct tape so they were water tight, wrapped them generously in organic wool roving, (which...
View ArticleActivity Blanket
I have such a hard time taking pictures of quilts around here. It would be nice if I had a lovely blank wall to tack them up against, but usually the best I can do is spreading it on the floor, and...
View ArticleNeedlefelting Totoro
It turns out that Totoros are easy shapes to needle felt, being mostly egg shaped. I was working from the picture in the front of the Totoro from-the-movie book, and I think it’s really interesting...
View ArticleNeedlefelted Matryoshka
I got the idea for these from this picture of ‘Felt Wool Cute Zakka’ from FeltCafe’s photostream. Theirs are cuter, but mine are still cute! Even if the green one looks more like she is wearing a...
View ArticleNeedle Felting as Applique or A Monster for Abby
Needle felting is such a wonderfully simple technique, but so many people seem skittish about trying it. This is a stuffed monster that I made for a friend’s 5 month old, it is a standard two piece...
View ArticleFelted Things
There was no tutorial on Monday, was there? That’s what happens when you are working overtime and coincidentally traveling across the country (taxi, plane, bus (okay okay, shuttle), rental car,...
View ArticleFelted Lamb
Once upon a time this was a craft blog, wasn’t it? How did it get to be a mostly kids art activities blog? Over the last year so much of my creative energy has gone into experimenting and researching...
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