a pod ... ?

After I finished the little sheep

(which has arrived safely on its destiny)

There was room (in my head)

to finally make the last piece for the felting exchange :

something RED for myself.

The plan for it was in fact already in my head 

when we had to pick our theme for the exchange.

So during this last year it was always "there"

That might explain why this little piece of felt

turned out the way it did

.....

I wanted a pod like shape, so made a template to go with that.

My only fear was that the tape would come off with all the water

but luckily it didn't !

Building up the layers,

wetting them and felting them was tricky.

Making antenna, tentacles ....

(yes, felting is thinking and planning in advance)

After more layers ...

and working very hard ...

the template could be removed.

Done !

Ha ! you can see it's still (more or less) the needed

size of a postcard !

Ta-daaaaah

"something  red,  you can hang"

Yes, I adore the berries of the spindle tree

And I confess I put a bit more work in this one that the other ones,

but it had a lot of time to "simmer" 

(the fact that the different colours I did on the inside

don't show that much ... well that's for another time 

to try and do better)

* 

Underneath this funny "pod" of mine

spring is really getting on its way

And when I lifted a pot that was in the garden for some time

(to fill in an empty spot)

there was animal life hiding away still

(I put the pot back on for a while longer)