Disclaimer: Only one drop of blood was spilled for the sake of this tutorial. No pictures of said drop will be displayed as the bearer of the drop baby cried her way into the kitchen to get a paper towel as soon as the horrific event occurred!
Once the drop was tended to by the paramedic on duty (RonChops) she was able to resume her regularly schedule tutorial.
Now that I have that out of the way... oh hang on... I need to adjust my band-aid... ok that's better.
I love to milk a boo boo for all it's worth. Even a tiny needle felting puncture wound/gash/trauma/ouchie.
So are we going to have a project sharsey today or what!?
Ok. Ok. Sew about a week ago I purchased a WoolPets needle felting kit from Felt-o-Rama (the bunny version). BTBW was in full swing so I knew it would not make it as one of the projects for that buntastic event - but I wanted to get it anyway cause I have always wanted to try needle felting (oh and I had a coupon from the Felt-o-Rama newsletter)!
Disclaimer Part II: I have never done this before but it was fun and I only poked my finger once really bad and drew a little drop of blood... wait... did I already mention that?!?!?!?!
Let's get started already DramaChops!
This kit comes with a LOAD of wool. You could prolly make at least 3 "creatures" from this thing. All of the specifics about how to make ye tender bunny pops... come with the kit! I'll just use vague innuendos for this tutorial (helpful right???).
Roll your wool into a cocoon shape.
(cocoon is the word of the day... you'll see why in a few pics)
Once you have two cocoon shapes...
You jab them together with the needle felting needle...
(trying carefully NOT to attach your finger to the cocoon).
It's tempting.
But don't do it.
Trust Lolly HoleyFingers
Once Casper has been wrangled into his cocoon...
You admire your handiwork.
Admire. Admire. Admire.
Then you pretend to shape things that look like "bunny ears"...
...and ever-so-gently attach them to the cocoon...
Then you wonder if this is actually going to look like anything at all.
Question ever getting a needle felting kit and making a tutorial out of it...
Why? Why? Why?
...and keep on truckin.
(cause that's what we do in Texas)
(you don't have a choice... trust me)
Is it a Llama?
...a Lamb perchance?
That sure looks like a Llama hiney to me.
(here I am squeezing the ears and gently poking the wool together
NOTE: I said G-E-N-T-L-Y people
He was trying to get away but I caught him by his little fat bottom.
The ears are looking some better.
Crooked... but better.
Side view of the Llama legs...
Yeah. Yeah... those are supposed to be legs.
Back "legs" in place.
Adding some pink to those ears to get them as bunnesque as possible!!!
Somehow I managed to wrangle a tail onto him in the melee of attaching his legs.
This is when he started to question his heritage...
...and at this point he's in full out dog mode.
He kinda looks like a westie in this one.
...at this exact moment...
RonChops walked into the room for the first time to see what I was working on.
It went something like this.
RonChops: "Why is there a mustache on that dog?"
LollyChops: It's not a dog it's a bunny... and I am putting his nose on.
RonChops: Well it looks like a fat white dog... with really big ears... and a mustache.
LollyChops: It's not a dog it's a bunny!
RonChops: Well it looks like a dog to me. Is that mustache going to stay on there like that?
At this point he started pointing out all of the dog characteristics.
I nicely asked him to leave the room.
...and get me another band-aid...
The "nose/mouth/mustache area" was problematic to say the least.
I even tried turning him upside down to see if that made it any better.
It didn't.
Poor guy.
Can it get any worse for him?
Enter...commercial break
I decided to insert a shred of helpful information into the middle of the drama here.
The kit came with small beads that I could not get to thread over any of my needles.
Since I was using embroidery floss.. I couldn't even use my beading needles.
Needle threading thing to the rescue!
I stuck the tip of the needle threading thing through the bead hole...
...and then threaded the floss on...
...and then stuck the needle on the end of the string to finish sewing his eyes on...
...and that's pretty much all there was to it...
...only the small black eyes were too small so I got some blue ones which were too big...
...but that's a story for another day...
Finally...
I pinned the bunny pin from last week to His Royal Highness
Felted Llama Bunny Dog Pants the III
...and shipped him off to Leigh...
(the winner of the bunny pin)
So she can bask in his wacky glory!
Plus.. I am hoping that hanging out with a real bunny might rub off on him.
Was it hard? You betcha!!
Can I add any more "!!!'s" to this post? You had better believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll be back Wednesday with those cork butterflies I promised you last week!
More hugs than you can stand (seriously),
1) Have you ever tried needle felting?
2) Would you try it now that you have seen how fun and easy it is?
3) If you have tried it and have some of your project pictures somewheres and feel like sharing...please send them my way and I'll post them (that was more of a statement and less of a question really).
xoxoxo,
DogChops
