Felted Flower Addiction

What a fun addiction to make!  I've been using hand dyed merino roving to create these little guys. Takes me about 2hrs to make about 20 of them, and the centers.  I have been known to use the blow dryer to decrease the wait time on drying so I can sew centers on and put on the backs.  I love the barretts and am thinking about finding some nice hair combs to decorate with flowers.

General size of the flowers are just a little larger than a quarter.








I will have a few classes coming up on how to make these suckers, check out dates and times at both Craft Akron and Peninsula Art Academy.

I am going to experiment with creating little insects to accent the flowers.  Thanks to Martha at Craft Akron, I can now attach the dots or legs or whatever with the needle felting needles she gave me this afternoon.  Which is just fantastic because the needles I found at home have rusted from being out in the garage...really, really need to get that studio started and completed!

train hat!

Finally!  I was able to convince the small gremlin to wear another hat this morning.  So here is the train hat.  I think it still needs fluffy smoke coming out of the stack, maybe I will add that this weekend during the conference.

The train pattern came from a kid's pattern book.  Unfortunately I cannot locate it but as as soon as I do I will post whose pattern it is.  I did adjust the pattern a little due to lack of some yarn and trying to knit with the 2yr old running about.

Not to happy about the stitching on the green railcar.  I may have to rip out and try again.  Although the kiddo seems to really like it anyway and I will be satisfied if it lasts thru this year and next year.







And the caboose.

 Last but not least, the model.  I had to distract him with monkeys!