... 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)

 

 

 



let's fly away

I know,

it's still a long time ...

but my first angel is ready to fly away.

In the last photo 

you can see very well what the embellisher does :

the fibres of the yellow triangles migrate 

through the blue wool ánd the dotted fabric to the back

"Catching stars"

Some Noro yarn was needle felted with the embellisher,

some stitches and French knots with self striping sock yarn,
a bit of magic thread

and twelve very old mother-of-pearl buttons

complete the work.

( 20 cm x 20 cm )

Later on I will sew it on a painted canvas.

*

In the garden I found something odd / special :

at least four years ago I bought ánd planted some saffron crocuses

....

To my regret I never saw any of them !

untill today !!!

Here was  one  saffron crocus

and another, withered one, I apparently missed !

When I picked that one up :

it stained my fingers bright orange !!!

(hmmmmmm ... probably not enough to eco-dye ???)