Well it has been quite a while since I posted anything. I have been away and have not done any craft work at all apart from a bit of knitting on and off for a few days when the weather was bad. As my birthday was last week I began looking at what I might spend my birthday money on.......always a good opportunity to buy some more craft materials!
On our way to visit a friend in Yorkshire yesterday, Hubby and I called into Adelaide Walker as we were passing - and I couldn't resist buying some needle felting equipment, a book, and some wool.
I didn't buy much, just a small selection of natural wool and a bit of merino in 'animal' colours. Last year I visited the island of Gotland which is in the Baltic off the coast of Sweden. It is famous for its sheep (Gotland), so when I saw some Gotland fleece I just had to buy some. The lady in the shop was very helpful as it was absolutely mesmerising seeing such a vast amount of wool in so many different colours. Being a newbie I appreciated the advice given as I didn't know what would be the best to select and didn't want to waste money in case I didn't want to continue after my initial dip into this new interest.
This afternoon, after finishing off my ironing, I made a start. Never one to be timid about a new craft I just dived in. I had watched a couple of video's on the internet, and by following the instructions in Jenny Barnett's book made a start. I suppose you could produce a pleasing enough result in a relatively short time, but I quickly realised that for the level of detail I would demand of myself, this was going to take quite a while.
I didn't realise how much time I had spent getting to this stage (head and body) and it will still need a lot more work to reduce the amount of fuzz. I know the head looks nothing like the ones in the book, or even anything like a real hare, but for a first attempt I am quite pleased. However, I don't think I will do any more today as I don't think I was sat correctly as now my back aches, but that could also be due to the large amount of ironing I did before I started!
I have roughly prepared the legs so will complete them tomorrow and see if I can get them to look right when I attach them to the body.
On our way to visit a friend in Yorkshire yesterday, Hubby and I called into Adelaide Walker as we were passing - and I couldn't resist buying some needle felting equipment, a book, and some wool.
I didn't buy much, just a small selection of natural wool and a bit of merino in 'animal' colours. Last year I visited the island of Gotland which is in the Baltic off the coast of Sweden. It is famous for its sheep (Gotland), so when I saw some Gotland fleece I just had to buy some. The lady in the shop was very helpful as it was absolutely mesmerising seeing such a vast amount of wool in so many different colours. Being a newbie I appreciated the advice given as I didn't know what would be the best to select and didn't want to waste money in case I didn't want to continue after my initial dip into this new interest.
This afternoon, after finishing off my ironing, I made a start. Never one to be timid about a new craft I just dived in. I had watched a couple of video's on the internet, and by following the instructions in Jenny Barnett's book made a start. I suppose you could produce a pleasing enough result in a relatively short time, but I quickly realised that for the level of detail I would demand of myself, this was going to take quite a while.
I have roughly prepared the legs so will complete them tomorrow and see if I can get them to look right when I attach them to the body.
