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Tonight’s Unexpected Project

After a fruitless search for an orange pillow for #1 son to bring to class, my good friend Katharine said, “You should just make him one.” So I thought to myself, well I do have the stuff…

Thanks also to my small sister for providing the copious yards of fur that I had no immediate use for but excitedly accepted when offered!

After seeing what #1’s pillow looked like, and helping me sew and stuff it, #2 said he needed one. So of course, now #1 needs one for home too. Told them both the ones for home weren’t going to be anywhere near as big as the school one. Two was all I could handle tonight though, this was a LOT of hand sewing. #1 will just have to make do with his school pillow for now…

While no animals were harmed during the making of these pillows, it looks like I plucked a bunny in my room!

Monthly Needle Felt Exchange

I really am loving participating in the monthly exchange in my Facebook group – Needle Felt Exchange. It forces me to do something creative at least once a month and it’s FUN!

This month’s theme was Circus. So I made a Circus Monkey, with a Fez, just cause he had to have one. Instead of framing this time though I made it into a pin. He’s going to live in Illinois.

He makes me smile.

Jungle!

Here is my jungle themed needle felt exchange project. This little guy now lives in Colorado.

Needle Felting Exchange

The theme in my first needle felting exchange was ocean. Supposed to be a small item so my pic is 3″x3″ and the frame is for a 4″x4″ picture. This little picture lives in Lake Tahoe now.

He likes reds, I like whites

My honey and I are so compatible…he prefers reds and I prefer whites.

My jam is peach and his is strawberry (don’t tell him my jar is bigger!)

Miss Bianca’s Birthday Bag

It was about 6″ tall by the time I was done. Wet felted the bag body then needled the flower and the scalloped top. This was my first stab at wet felting a bag, needed to reinforce in some areas. I think I’ll stick with fulling knitted bags. Had to tell em I made it myself, they thought I bought it!

Who Gives a Hoot? Hooti Do!

While on vacation this summer, the boys and I dropped hooti-owl toys as part of an anonymous giving program from The (secret) Toy Society http://thetoysociety.blogspot.com/.

While waiting for my hubby to finish packing the car I realized I had everything I needed for the project so I cut out all the owl parts just 15 minutes before leaving for our trip, packed them up and sewed each owl as we went along. We dropped one in four states, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.

The mini men had a great time picking the location for each drop.

They weren’t too imaginative in Illinois and Michigan, picked the hotel elevator both times.

The vending machine at the Indiana rest stop was fun though.

And we dropped our final owl on the play structure at the park in Wisconsin late at night, in the dark. Unfortunately it rained buckets that night while we slept. Hopefully the hooti-owl was safe in it’s Ziploc bag.

What a fun project. Can’t wait for our first California drop!