one bird in the hand ...

Like last year

I'm participating in an online felting class

of Corinna Nitschmann.

Though I don't have a lot of time

to do some big felting right now,

but there's the possibility to save these lessons for later

(like the wrist warmers and the skirt)

But the little birds that adorned a felted vessel

were sooooooooo CUTE

I had to try them right away !

A tiny bit of wool

lukewarm water, soap

and nimble hands

do the trick.

A small great tit was the result !

And because it's such fun ...

(a blue tit without a picture)

a wren

and a tail tit.

Always love it when in winter these little ones

come foraging in a group !

Maybe I even make one of these special visitors in felt !

(ring-necked parakeets are more and more common here)

... the quick brown fox ...

 

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

.....

what an amazing sentence this is !

 

And who ever invented it ???

 

I remember when I first saw it

(waaaaaaaaay back in highschool probably)

I could hardly believe

that all the letters of the alphabet

are in such a short sentence !

(ha, check for yourself, if you don't believe me)

 

Here is another brown fox (though not so quick)

still soapy and wet

but nearly finished !

 

Making daughters wet felted cats was so much fun

that I couldn't wait to give it another go 

a fox this time.

(though Gabi's PDF is for cats,

a fox should be made in a similar way)

 

I love foxes

I love the way they walk, love their wit, love their colour.

 

I know : when you have a farm with chickens,

you probably don't love foxes.

It's a predator no doubt,

but lots of other beautiful animals are.

...

 

"The making of the fox" .....  with an interested spectator ...

(ah, the white blob on Bagheera's face was a spec of soap on the lens)

 

It'a a challenge to get two equally large ears !

 

Although I didn't have any black "Bergschafwolle"

the dark gray colour with which I " built" the frame

worked well enough

 

Here he is (or she) rinsed, dried in a towel, shaped again

and waiting till he's totally dry.

 

(Then the last akward job : making the nose mouth and eyes !

with a felting needle this time)

 

 

 



a try .... at last

Today, because I was baby-sitting,

I took some wool,

some soap

and a felting needle

with me to daughter's house.

When I was with Gabi in Germany

some weeks ago,

she gave me a bit of her special wool.

She washed it and then it went through the carding machine.

It is brownish gray and a touch of white.

Earlier I carefully studied the tutorial  PDF (with lots of photos) 

I purchased from her some time ago

...

and gave it a try 

(Because I didn't have my camera

there are not many "making-of" pictures,

only the ones I took this evening)

That was already a lot of work done when he came home

pfffffft

A white nose, tummy and tail

Tomorrow a lot of rinsing and making

his face

(I know it's a bit early for Easter,

but I might find him a little basket for his eggs !) 

Gabi was so right :

working with "Bergschafwolle" is great !