This is how I felt last night...

My daughter Bridget is knitting things...lots of things...and one thing is a little sweater that has a front panel that can be removed, rather than just a single placket for the buttons and corresponding holes. Anyway, we thought it would lend itself to two or three DIFFERENT panels for different times of the year - autumn, holiday, snowy January days, etc. As an experiment towards that end, Bridget knitted a gold panel and felted it in preparation for my needle-felting class. The class was last night and here is the finished panel - though I think I need to "needle" it a bit more, and I may add a few more long leaves. I had a great time at the class and will soon be felting everything - no sweater is safe! Purses, slippers, headbands, beware! The instructor also showed me how to make 3-dimensional felt sculptures - we did a fish and a jelly-fish. She told about a woman who will needle-felt-sculpt your dog from a picture you send her - and she gets $80 per 6-8 inch felt rendering of the pooch! what a way to make a living!