Monday, December 22, 2008

Felting Fun


This weekend I went to Maurine's house for the first time to learn how to felt. I had a great time meeting Maurine and enjoyed all of her wonderful hospitality. She also has some amazing looms one of which is computer manipulated. This is a felt bead that I made that day that I glued onto a ring base. I haven't strung the necklace or bracelet yet but isn't this ring too cute! What was so funny about this whole process was that Maurine had cards to use on the wool for another project. They looked just like the cards that you use on actual sheep. For those of you who don't know I showed sheep from age 8-18 in 4-H. Then we washed the wool in Ivory soap which is exactly what you wash sheep in to make them really white and pretty for the fair. It really made me chuckle.

4 comments:

Colleen Mcgraw said...

How cute is that ring??? I didn't really like the freeky little dolls .... but this is cute.

Jackie said...

Oh oh oh I want to felt I want to felt!!! hee-hee!! Great job amanda!!! can't wait to see it live!!

Mandy said...

Love it, love it! Can't wait to see the rest!

Sandy said...

This is adorable. I love that you made it into a ring. I was in 4H too. I didn't show sheep, how cool for you.