After my last con, I needed a quick little palette cleanser personal project - I love making things for other people, but sometimes you need to make something for yourself! I decided that what I wanted was a little friend to sit up on top of the Color Machine, and the sheep from the logo design felt like a perfect choice. She’s accompanied by dye bottles and a couple little balls of wool, and has a magnet in her base to help her stay steady up on top.
This was a personal piece and is not for sale, but my commissions are currently open and I’d love to talk ideas with anyone who wants to add a felted friend to their world!
Oh! I think I startled it! I've gotta be careful; that "spear" looks rather sharp—!
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I needle-felted a tiny slugcat yesterday, and if you ask me, it came out SO cute! Below the cut are some more pictures of it to show off some angles and poses (featuring one of my felting needles as a "spear"):
This was actually my second attempt at making a pocket-sized generic/Survivor slugcat (fourth overall needle felted slugcat attempt), where I mainly tried to improve the proportions. Here are some comparison pictures with my first mini Survivor (left):
I hope you like this little guy — I certainly love it! And my hope is to someday needle felt all the main slugcats (plus maybe Nightcat and Enot). Some might be difficult (probably Gourmand and Saint), but I'm up to the challenge if it produces more adorable tiny wool friends!
Also, I've been trying to get back in the swing of needle-felting, so let me know if you would like to see more of it on this blog!
With farm work winding down for the season, I finally had time to update my shop: mini and full-sized felted mushrooms, greeting cards, stickers, and pendants!
These tiny mossball kitties come from the same ponds and streams as koi dogs, and are often found rolling around with baby guppies. They may be small, but each one packs a big personality!
Most of these meowrimos are sold, but I’ll have a fresh batch at Midwest FurFest in Chicago, December 1st through 3rd! Find me in the dealer’s den!
I'm back with another felted slugcat! Like I said, I think I'm going to try felting all the characters, and since I began with Survivor, it felt fitting I'd do their sibling next (especially since it'd be good practice for making colored slugcats)!
Other than the yellow hue and the happier-looking expression I gave it, it's pretty much the same as before:
ALSO...
Thank you SO, SO MUCH to everyone who showed support on my needle felted Survivor!!! I was hoping it'd turn out both cute and accurate to the official art, but I did NOT expect the sheer volume of love everyone sent its way (you guys made it my most-liked and most-reblogged post by FAR in just a few days)!
I always adore seeing people enjoy my art, so I hope you all continue to enjoy seeing the rest of the cast as they come out in woolen form! Until then, the scug siblings say thank you!
Hello!!! It is Christmas season! I know it is late for most of this. But when you see this I NEED you to look so hard. My mama has an Etsy shop, and she’s super self conscious about her art, she calls it a seamstress’s hobby, but it’s beautiful.
She still uses the account my sister made for them when she wanted to try business and selling art and my mom was backing her 100%, I’m working on building her a new one that’s not Etsy but I’m not sure what sites are good. Preferably any suggestions for sites would also be able to be like a gallery, for things she doesn’t want to sell or just to showcase her work! If any of my art besties or sale besties have suggestions, I would love that.
Also, if you’re looking for a nice handmade gift that’s on the pricey end because it’s handmade, her stuff is timeless. Or if you know rich people or if your parents like you enough to post Facebook posts you wrote for them. Pretty please boost for my lovely mama.
She cleans, spins, and dyes her own wool for her projects, this is a Mrs. Claus with bendable fingers she just finished for my grandma!
Especially with the boycotts and how terrible capitalism is, consider supporting a small artist who sources everything ethically!!