Needle felted polar bear

So about 8 months ago I started a new hobby: Needle Felting. What is that you might ask, as I did myself. Well the best I can describe it is sculpting with wool. In essence you use barbed needles to tangle wool fibres (or any other natural fibre) together to form 3D shapes.

Here is my first project (well the first one I was willing to admit to). It not a large polar bear, but I learned a lot about sculpting with needles in this one. He's made from white and black merino wool over a pipecleaner armature.

Re-purposing

So clearly I'm not putting up photos every week anymore, not that I don't still occasionally take out my camera, but as usual I have gotten side tracked by other things in life and recently my husband said to me, "Why don't you put your latest craft stuff on your blog?"

And seeing how much I enjoy reading other people's craft blogs I thought why not. Maybe no-one will read it, but it makes for a nice diary anyway and I'm not likely to loose this like a file on my harddive.

So over the next while I will put on some of my crafting stuff until I'm caught up to what I'm currently working on and re-purpose this as a general creative blog. Once its up to date, I'll update it as and when I've got a project I want to share.