Off with her head!

Said the queen of hearts!

She is the next one in my Alice in wonderland set ive been commissioned to do.

I thought id share with you the evolution of her head over the next few blogs, before you see her finished look. I find faces the hardest thing to do and usually end up ripping it off at least three times before im happy with it. In this case every time i do i shall say. OFF WITH HER HEAD hehe.

Here she is so far!

More to this than meets the eye.

Ive been inquisitive about blogging for a while now. My sister is an avid blogger and it made me have a dabble. Then my friend at work started blogging and has helped me get blogging again. She is rahter motivated and is spurring me on to keep adding to mine. So this week i need to look on how to add pages and links and change my page design. Its good to have a bit of competition hehe!

Todays needle felt since it is a needle felting blog is the caterpillar from alice in wonderland. He still needs a hookah pipe ... I am working on it.

Still learning

I was having a bit of a clean up today. I 'felt' in my conservatory and the more wool i get the more my other half calls it the fluff room.

It can get quite untidy at times and every now and again i will have to have a blitz.

Today was one of them days....

While cleaning i picked up Arthur.

Arthur was the first real character i had made. I based him on my grandad and although i have been offered money for him, he isnt for sale.

I had always been proud of him until today.

Today i realised how far i had come in the needle felting world. I looked at Arthur and for the first time thought ' blimey hes not very good' 

This is a good thing it shows i think i have improved which it hard for me to say. And although i have such a long way to go compared to some felters, i no longer 'feel' like a beginer.

Heres Arthur

The mad hatter!

This one was a real challange! 

I pulled his face off five times before i was happy with him.

That sounds awful if you take it out of the felting context! 

But i hope you like him.

Here he is

We are all mad here?

Another Alice in wonderland character, this time the Cheshire Cat!

I had great fun making him.

I cant help but smile at that grin! 

What do you think? 

Inspired to do more

Blogging that is not felting, im always felting.
Since my ipad is almost grafted to my hand, now i have the blogger app ( thank you Sarah) i should be able to blog a bit more often.
As promised in my last blog ( which was only yesterday i might add!) i mentioned i have been felting some alice in wonderland characters.
Here are the first ones i did.

Is it tweedle dum and tweedle dee? Or tweedle dee and tweedle dum?

More coming soon!

If you want a sneak preview of the others i have done and other felts too. Check out my facebook page at www.facebook.com/feltsforever  and on twitter @feltsforever 

Let me know what you think. :)

Need to do more

Wow I havent been on here since September!

Thats no good but then on the other hand the reason is because I've been busy felting.

Since I last blogged I have done a few christmas fairs and taught my first needle felting class!

Since then orders have been coming in steadily away. 

I was asked to felt a dog for a ladies 60th birthday. He was called barney!.

Her he is and his felted doppleganger.

Next alice in wonderland characters

Barney

Felted barney