3 - 3 - 15 .... the "last" felting exchange

Oh yes : late again.

This last piece of our felting exchange 

was scheduled for February.

It went in the post today.

As you will probably understand the theme for this month was 

"sheep"

Now this should not have been a problem,

because I like sheep 

(though not their sound when they're grown-ups)

They "give" us their gorgeous warm coat

with which we have lost of fun 

knitting and felting !

But what to make for this felting exchange ???

One sheep, 

a ram with awesome horns,

a little lam, 

or even a flock of sheep and shepherd ? 

I couldn't decide and moreover

I wanted to make something funny

.....

Yesterday I started with a kind of heath landscape

for a background

.....

Then I thought it would be fun to change the woolen coat

for a knitted one !

But :

all my lovely sock (or thicker) yarns

are "superwash"

so it won't felt

The only solution then is, to make your own yarn :

spinning

Now I had vowed a long time ago 

that "spinning" is nót for me

(and daughter wanted to help out but was doing other things)

I made a spindle out of an old big whirligig

and tried my best to spin some even thread

(thread yes, even no !)

Then I knitted a small swatch

So on the heath landscape came a colourful sheep

with the swatch and some snippets of prefelt,

which I stitched to the back with some linen thread.

(Like I always do, when dealing with difficult parts

so things won't shift during the rolling process.

I take the thread out when all is finished)

Geurdie, I hope you like my "modern" sheep

it will be on your doorstep tomorrow !

In fact this colourful sheep isn't really the last one

of this year's exchange :

I have to do a last one for myself,

because there were only eleven women participating

So with that last one (something RED)

the circle will be closed.

;-)