Gnomes!

Elmadge Boddywinkle

I went a little crazy a month or so ago making these gnomes... just using wool and a felting needle... oh, and I hand carded someof the wool to blend the colors a bit before felting .

I used a free tutorial from Sarafina Fibers to get me going. I'd been making my own gnomes for a few years, but her tutorial gave me some ideas and motivated me to be a bit freer in my use of materuals and make my gnomes a bit, well, gnomier.

Fudwick Limwinkle

I even found a gnome name gererator online ( somewhere) 

and had fun coming up with names for all of them.

Redcapsion Zookpen

These were a pretty easy beginner felting project1

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Rainbow Gnomes

Fairy Friends....

One of a kind felt fairies

A few weeks ago someone asked me to make some little fairies for her daughter's fairy garden. I had been wanting to make some little fairies for awhile and this was just the inspiration I needed.

Felt Fairies

These are made from wool roving, which is sometimes called Magic Wool. They begin  with a pipe cleaner armature and  then I wrap the wool tightly to make the body. Some have a little wooden head,  others are wool.  

I wrap another color to make "stockings" and the shirt. The skirts are cut from hand made felt that I have made using a wet felting process.

This one is an extra special one that i made for Katie. It is like my larger woll fairies, but I think it may not lend itslef to playing with as much becuase the wool roving is a bit fussier than the felted "skirt"

there are more on my facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/SimpleGiftsSimplyFelt