I have been busy today searching for inspiration on the web and have found a few interesting videos on you tube from Crafts Beautiful, which will at least give me an idea of what I should be doing to create Maxwell. But I see there are various techniques to creating felted animals. Crafts beautiful suggest building a basic shape using pipe cleaners and then wrapping the wool around and felting into place and shape.

I have also heard that you can build a felted animal by simply winding and felting a ball straight from the woollen fibres – this I think involves more investigation.

I also found a book by Gillian Harris called Complete Feltmaking – Easy Techniques and 25 Great Projects. I liked the book because it has features on Wet and Dry felting. Well there you go, I didn’t know there was a difference, something else for me to investigate I guess !

So how far have I gotten with my research today ?

Well, the goal is still the same, Aim: To create a 3d felted animal. 

 1) Research:

• Visit Craft Shop’s – to do
• Search on-line - in progress
• Find tutorials or video’s on you tube or similar – in progress
• Visit the library and/or search craft shop’s for helpful books – in progress
• Write this blog – in progress
• Don’t panic – worried about sharp needles !
• Don’t get distracted
• and above all enjoy the experience. – in progress

2) Note to self:

• Remember car keys
• Remember to buy milk – eventually did remember on 2nd trip to store !