oops gnome hat?

Ok, I was using this wool that works great to needle felt. I soon found out that it sort of sucks to wet felt, it was smoshy and spongey. I was attempting to wet felt a fairy pod roof and this what happened. Zane was playing with it and lightbulb! I should really get some better wet felting wool and make some kid and grown up crazy woodland gnome hats! Don't ya think?

Valentines Fairies

I made these little fairies for my sons school. Each child takes one home and several of the parents and teachers each made some too! They have cotton pipe cleaners on the inside with wool roving rapped around the outside, then needle felted. They are awesome cause they bend.

Wool roving braided rug

I bought some wool roving which didn't wet felt or needle felt good. It was probably good for spinning which I don't do. Not yet anyway! So, I was bummed but shortly after I went to the wool festival in Taos, New Mexico and a woman had braided rugs made with wool roving. Wow, I had made a couple of rugs by collecting scrap wool fabric, they took forever! Well, it took 2 years to finish a small round rug. Unfortunately, we had a leek in the pipes and it got wet, so we put it out on our fence to dry. Our fence faces a Catholic church parking lot and after church it was gone. I still get broken hearted when I think about it. Not sewing the strands together and just overlapping and braiding the roving as I went, this rug in about 4 hours. I have these awesome needles that I inherited from my Great Grandmother May. I think they may be for shoes or leather. I used this one for sewing the rug together it worked great. I may make it bigger and add on more roving when I can afford it. I was surprised at how sturdy it turned out.
I am thinking that it might be cool to make a big chunky rug by using a huge crochet hook with roving. Oh, and I could also felt it too. How soft that would be!

wool bracelets

I crocheted these bracelets as an experiment. I need to try them on a bunch of people cause I am not sure how they will fit everybody, since I sized it to myself. Maybe I need to put clasps on them? One thing I did learn was that if I am going to put them in the dryer to felt them to use a garment bag or pillow case. The green leaf bracelet felted into the yarn some of the dryer lint and I couldn't get it out. To fit good around my wrist I used 35 single crochet with worsted weight yarn.