Felted teacup pig

I drew my cousin Laura in this year's family gift exchange. Since my cousin Lisa's felted beagle had gone over well, I thought Laura might like a wool critter too. Enquiries indicated that she likes teacup piglets and unicorns, and I prefer piggies to horsies, so I made a piglet... most of it on Christmas Eve, since my supplies were delayed in transit for almost four days (argh, Air Canada)

Anyway, I think I do pretty good work for my cousins. My almost-four-year-old nephew also seemed enamored :)

Felted eyeball

I made something, for the first time in forever! It's an eyeball. Yup. (I have, in the past, collected eyeballs).

Felted Krogan

Felted Krogan view 1, a photo by Angstcrafted on Flickr.

I wanted a Krogan of my own, so I made one!

Christmas felting

So I haven't made much of anything this year, particularly nothing felted... but Christmas gift time rolled around and I had two gift exchanges for which I could not come up with purchased gift ideas. First was a Secret Santa at work, so why not make a Christmas ornament? It's based on this: Diablo Loot Pinata



Then I drew my cousin for our family gift exchange. I heard she liked my previous beagles. I made her a slightly improved beagle! Except I made the legs all brown by accident, then after checking photo reference I felt bad and made the feet white. It's hard trying to put white over brown...

Secret Hyena

Geez, I just realized ages after posting this that I had already posted about this same thing earlier in January. I'm just absent-minded, not self-important, I swear... anyway...

The Something Awful forums are a wonderful place full of intelligent, funny and creative people. (I can say that without sarcasm because I don't visit the more horrible sub-forums that exist there). There's even a needle-felting thread, and we had a Secret Santa for Orthodox Christmas! My secret giftee was the shockingly talented creturfetur who had requested "something hyena-related", so I made a hyena. I sorta neglected to give it a mane, but it's a baby so that's OK.







I think this is my cutest li'l dude so far, though I still have a soft spot for the staring white kitty.

Baby Hyena

One of the best things I've ever spent ten bucks on was a membership to the Something Awful forums. Some of my web-savvy friends think they are a hive of scum and villainy, but that's only a couple of the sub-forums. Instead of looking at goatse, I read creative edits of comic strips, get new recipes, talk about video games, and get all crafty with people. There's even a needle-felting thread!

Someone proposed a Secret Santa for the needlefelters and I signed up. My recipient was the intimidatingly talented person who started the thread, and she wanted something hyena-related... so I sized up my efforts a bit and made this little pup. She got it now so I can post about it. Woof!







There are probably only a couple of drops of human blood felted into this particular item :P
I have a few more requests for dogs, but I think I might want to make myself a possum to hang from my monitor. The only felty thing I have myself is the little white cat I made!

Why are my posts so devoid of humour? I'm funny, dammit.

Belvedere

I made Loretta the Beagle for my coworker and he asked me to also make his beagle Belvedere who sadly passed away earlier this year. His fiancee misses him and wanted a little mascot to drive to work with her. So here he is:





This is Belvedere himself:

Spock

Here's the next in my series of "Coworkers' Dogs" needle felting: Spock the corgi. This Spock was actually a gift for a friend of mine who does not own him, but has a dog-crush on him and has him on her Facebook profile picture and iPhone wallpaper... Such things happen when people bring their dogs to work every day.






Me, I want to steal one of the other work corgis, but she never comes to the office anymore. :(

Infestation

So a few months ago, there were these tiny black bugs in my house. I'd find them in the morning near the cat food and cat litter, but I couldn't find a source. I keep my house clean, darnit, and I vacuum at least weekly.

One day my friend was over and I started ranting about the bugs. I found one to show her and she identified it as a grain weevil. After checking my pantry items for bugs and not finding anything, I remembered that my cat litter is made of corn... and there was a litter box upstairs that the cats hadn't been using, so I hadn't touched it for a while (just glances to confirm the continuing absence of poop).

Well, let's just say I found where the weevils were coming from.

I made this for the friend!

Loretta

Loretta is another work doggie. She is obsessed with food and getting her belly scratched. I tried to make a little felt Loretta. Her back markings aren't accurate but her dad seems pleased with the results :)

As for me I think it took me way too long for a somewhat amateurish end product. I think I made it a bit too small. I also used a rough core wool with roving laid over top for the first time and found it a bit harder to sculpt. (I was running out of brown roving...) I also didn't have a big enough fabric scrap for her little bandanna so the ends are a bit frayed as I couldn't hem them. It'll be fine as long as it isn't manhandled too much!

Chula

Lots of people bring their dogs to work. The bestest dog is my friend's puppy Chula. She's a boxer/American Bulldog mix and she's a sweetheart. Her only flaw is that she loves dogs way more than people so she pays no attention to me if other dogs are around. Anyway I thought I would make her owner a little felt Chula.

Chula is not allowed to play with her mini-me because she would just eat it.

Adventures in cute

My sister Andrea taught me to needle-felt last year. I made a few woolen balls for the cats to play with and a couple of "pom-poms" for baby hats but left it at that. After finding Softies Central I wanted to make more cute things, so I ordered a book on making needle-felted adorable animals.

Once the book arrived I flipped through it and proceeded to ignore basically everything it said and all the projects inside and made this cat. It was unexpectedly popular on my Facebook page so it gets its own post!