January Dog: Afghan

I've decided to challenge myself to needle felt a different breed of dog each month this year. So here is January's finished product. I've never made a long hair animal before so that was a new experience.

Shoes

During the last meeting of the Textile Tarts, a member demonstrated how to make shoes using Paper Clay. These are the ones that I completed. They are quite small, only about one inch high. They are made of air dry clay, embroidery floss laces, and thin black ribbon. Now I need to determine the "person" that is wearing these shoes! Fun!

  

Seagull

Made this seagull just for fun.

March 19: Although I liked this seagull, I always though something was missing. He just seemed a little plain to me. So today I went back to him and added a bit of embellishment. He now has lace on his webbed feet with a tiny white pearl on the top edge. He also has a piece of deep blue lace on his tail feathers embellished with small black beads. And I also embellished his wings with small white pearl beads. I like him better now....is he finished??

Penny

I finished my 10th wall doll- Penny.  She holds a lucky penny!

Swap Finished

We had our December meeting of the Textile Tarts which included the Tilda Swap so I am now able to post the doll that I made for this swap.

I especially like her blue suede fur topped boots. She has a new home now and my desire to make Tilda style dolls is done- at least for the near future. They are a lot of fun to make though, so there's no telling what the future could bring.