so angelic!

Welcome to my Angelic Donkey!

Already to add a small dash of heavenly happiness to your life



He's very happy hanging against something, but need to get the balance worked out if he is going to possibly, dare I say it, go on a tree!  At the moment he nods forward.

Just needs to have a think on that, but will take this chap down to Hannah at Lovely Pops tomorrow.

first attempts, will start at the head and work down....

Well I promised I would have a go at my own ideas, and this little head is done using the remains of the fleece from the kit. Which is why he is turquoise!

do rather like him, but not sure how to use him.......

So I had a rethink and was given some natural coloured fleece by Iris and Dora www.irisanddora.co.uk

Thank you girls!

And so I decided to do a donkey

The donkey is the symbol of a Guernsey person, just like the British Bulldog.

Some say its because we have short legs and are stubborn, but unfortunately the reason is a lot more mundane, it was a football insult hurled at us by Jersey supporters in the early 1900's....oh well.

But I am proud to be a DONKEY!!!!!!



And am also rather proud of him,

 might make him in to a broach, or maybe something else?????

But first I am going to set myself the challenge of making the rest of him!

Wish me luck I will keep you posted ;-)

I can feel the start of a new adiction.....

When I was in Petworth with my sister in July, I picked up a needle felting kit, now I am not usually a fan of kits, but this was something totally new too me, and I thought it might be a gentle introduction.

Well, I had a go earlier this month, and think I am hooked! This little bird was produced in a couple of hours, by a total novice!

With traditional felting you are agrevating the scales on the fiber shaft with heat (hot water) causing them to lock together or felt. With needle felting you are using a small barbed needle to do the same thing, but with out the mess or your finger tips ending up look like dried prunes!  Though those same fingers did get stabbed a fair few times, so not sure which is the lesser of two evils......

I am not very goods at sitting in front of the telly in the evening not doing anything, and some times if my fabric is stretched too tight over the hoop embroidery can be very squeaky (!) Which to Chris is like running your fingers down a blackboard (ugggh!)  So here is the perfect evening craft, yippee ;-)

Right so now we leave the kit behind and start experimenting with my own ideas and designs, lots in the pipe line, will keep you posted xxx

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