I've had a busy few weeks trying to finish off a couple of old projects, one project in particular was a pattern from All About Ami for a chunky shrug, I blogged about this last October, yes, that is how long it's been in my basket. I'm very pleased how it has turned out it is very thick and warm. The pattern was very easy to follow, the only problem I had is that I crochet very tightly and I therefore needed two extra balls of wool to finish it off. I also decided to add a button, the one I choose is made from spalted oak I bought them from Natural Organic Crafts they have a shop on Etsy.
I have also been playing around with needle felting again, this time my Auntie gave me two silver vintage salt and pepper pots I decided to incorporate them into my needle felting and came up with this.
To make the small toadstools stand up I wound some cream felt around small pieces of pipe cleaner and then gently needle felted them. Once I had finished this I decided to make a smaller version, this time using a vintage thimble.
My last old project involved acorns, last year I had collected lots of acorns I wasn't too sure what I would do with them but I thought I would keep them and at some point I would think of something. The 'something' turned into replacing the acorns and making little coloured acorns to fit in the caps. I didn't use a needle for this, I tried the wet felting method instead. I had very sore hands by the time I had finished them, I think next time I will wear thin rubber gloves instead. To attach the acorn to the cap I used a glue gun. I then attached string to them so it was a little easier to tie them to some corkscrew Hazel branches I had.
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