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Happy Birthday to Me!

Goob — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:26:54 +0000

So in honour of my birthday a couple of days ago, my wonderful sister and boyfriend created this Moobs themed cake for me. I have to say, it looks spectacular and tastes even better. It is carrot cake (naturally!) with cream cheese icing. Yummmm!

My brother, who is currently visiting from England, also gave me a Moobs inspired gift. It is a book titled “Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit: An Illustrated Encyclopedia” and will be a great help as I search for more and more obscure fruits and veggies to needle felt. I may soon be posting images of felted endive or durians with eyes. Stay tuned!

Needle Felted Carrot

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:44:32 +0000

Ah, the carrot. This little guy is a descendant of my first attempt at needle felting vegetables. I created a carrot for my friend’s birthday, and everyone fell in love with it. The rest is history.

I think that it is the colour and distinctive shape which make the carrot so popular. Also, a lot of character is expressed through his hairdo. I like to make it extremely long and fuzzy.

The construction is fairly straight forward, just form the shape, and then attach on the hair. I also make the rings around the carrot by just needle felting in a line around the circumference. I do this a few times at various spots along his length, and the result is quite convincing.

Needle Felted Orange

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:15:51 +0000

My orange was a pleasant surprise. I was not sure that he would be very exciting in the end, because he does not have a lot going on. The simplicity seemed to come through for him, because I think that he looks pretty darn cute.

He was extremely easy to construct. I decided to make him a flattened orange, so that it would be easier to make him into a broach. I just needle felted a round sculpture out of orange, and then gave him a little green spot where his stem would have come out. I think that putting it off centre gives him a little personality.

The surface texture was easy as well. The tiny holes that sometimes occur when you are using a needle that may be a bit too coarse for the job actually ended up looking like the little pores on an orange peel. I had an inkling that this would be the case, and it turned out that I was correct. Happy

Needle Felted Kiwi

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:31 +0000

Not the animal the funny, fuzzy little fruit!

The kiwi was particularly challenging to sculpt. The white lines which radiate from the centre and the tiny seeds were the slowest and most painstaking part of the project. I started by sculpting the green part. I spent quite a bit of time on this as I wanted the surface to be hard enough for me to sculpt the details on to it. I needle felted the white lines and seeds directly onto the green, without trying to sculpt them before attachment. With parts as tiny as these, it is best to just attach them to the main project and shape them into it. It is too difficult, not to mention dangerous for your fingers, to try and felt itty bitty pieces of wool.

I made the eyes on my kiwi quite large. This is because of the seeds. I found that smaller eyes got lost amongst all of the other tiny, dark dots on his face. The result is quite cute, and slightly amphibious…

Felted Asparagus

Goob — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:04:36 +0000

The asparagus has one of my favourite end results, but it is definitely one of the more challenging vegetables to construct. This is because of all the tiny green leaves at the top, which I attach on individually. I don’t worry about felting each leaf too much, as they are very small and difficult to work with. It can also be quite dangerous for your fingers to work the needles on such a small surface area. The construction is otherwise quite easy; just felt the stalk from some lighter green, and attach the leaves after from a darker green. They end up looking like hair, and add a lot of personality. This particular little guy has quite the devil-may-care expression.

Felted Butternut Squash

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:44:25 +0000

This is the first time that I have attempted to make any sort of gourd, and I am quite pleased with the result. I was worried that I did not have the colour that I wanted – a deep orangey-yellow. I solved this by combining a bright yellow that I had with a red. Initially, this did not solve the problem, because the wool does not really blend together. You can still see the individual fibers, and I ended up with a yellow and red streaked butternut squash. Not to be disheartened, I just used this as my base colour and wrapped a thin layer of the yellow around it. Because the underneath layer had quite a bit of the bright red, the yellow layer turned it into a deep orange, similar to what I had pictured. You can still see some of the streakiness underneath, but I think that it adds a nice effect.

Avocado

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:33:43 +0000

Thought I’d show everyone what I’ve been up to since you last saw me. This is my buddy the Avocado.