30 April 2012

Maternal Felting Explosion*

The hat is my triumph. The jacket now outgrown. Dressing him up like a crazy gnome? only just begun.

magical bean [and crazybrows]

I love how tactile felt is and wet-felting seems suited to my slapdash method of try it and see. Careful measurements don't work anyway (at least for me) and tinkering is king.  Plus, it's cheap.

I saw these baskets on Design*Sponge:

for $95?!
and I think I might have to have a go.
top photo: my iphone, bottom photo Alder & Co

*the name of my future jam band

5 comments:

  1. I love it...my little gnome is now 15 years old...and I loved dressing her like a gnome when she was a baby...think I'll try it again tonight...

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    1. Ha, it is fun, isn't it. Though I wonder how much luck you'll have with a fifteen year old ;)

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  3. holy shit, you *made* that hat?

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    1. I did (the jacket too, but the hat was cooler.) In a fit of pregnancy activity I learned how to felt wool - I am a fan partially because it doesn't require sewing, nor a great deal of skill (if a bit of elbow grease).

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