Many of you will know how much I LOVE chickens.. Which is why it's a little surprising that its' taken me this long to felt one :)
I decided to make a cosy-critter chicken.. here he is
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| A quick sketch |
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| Chicken shaped resist cut from foam floor underlay |
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| Building layers.. The inside is white English wool - slightly spongy and very warm The outside is dyed merino |
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| 2 more fibre layers to go.. time to root in the tail |
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| Adding felted cords for the tail :) |
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| Adding details |
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| Speckled breast feathers :) |
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| Part way through felting.. just after the resist was removed, but before healing the edges. |
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| Chickens blocked and drying on my radiator |
| My chickens needed their combs! I had never used commercial prefelt before.. but thought I would buy an A4 sized piece 'specially to try for this project. I went for a nice bright red for his comb.. and as I was planning to felt 2 chickens I worked the combs together and cut them before finishing felting. |
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| After working, cutting, healing the edges, fully felting, rinsing and drying :) I decided to machine stitch the sections to create 3 chambers, which I stuffed with wool fibre and hand stitched on to the heads |
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| Finished 'em off with a couple of cute green button eyes :) |
xoxo
I love them, they are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThey're excellent!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jane & Zed :)
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Lovvvvvvvveeeeeee them!
ReplyDeleteSuper fun! Love the colours...will look great on the breakfast table!
ReplyDeleteLovely and sweet! Very detail steps. Pretty and warm enough for the morning tea.
ReplyDeleteHa, it will be a lot of noise in the hen house !
ReplyDelete(they're cute !!!)
Wow!! I loved seeing the whole creative process. And these are just too cute :-)
ReplyDeletewowm I love them . Couldn't help thinking they would be perfect to keep a teapot warm ;-)
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!. Kuropatwa jest fantastyczna. Choć może to kura ?
ReplyDeleteThank you all :) I've been completely out of it the last 5 or 6 days.. I've had migraines and didn't dare touch the computer incase I set off another 'light show'.
ReplyDeleteSo it was lovely to log in this morning and tread all your lovely comments
Karolina, they were intended to be chickens.. but my family all thought one was a pheasant as I was working on him :) I don't mind, I like chickens and pheasants :).
Kim, they sit on a fair sized pot too :)
xoxo
Thank you all for cheering me up
The cosies are wonderful - the red combs and button eyes are eye-catching.
ReplyDeleteGoing back a couple of posts, I think your spiral bag is very pretty.