The Turtle Moves: Bottled needlefelt

23/11/2014

Bottled needlefelt

Hello!

While browsing through the various catalogues that plop through the letter box at this season of over-spending on useless rubbish I noticed some interesting Christmas decorations - tiny little toadstools inside the sort of little glass bottles that bead shops sell. What a nice idea - and I bet they wouldn't take long to make, I thought. So ... Ebay for the bottles and into my stash of merino tops with felting needle in hand ...and VOILA!

What do you think?

The larger toadstool that's not in a bottle was the first one I made, just to get the idea of the shape, and of course it's too big for the weeny bottles, but maybe I should make a little elf to sit beside it and make it into another sort of decoration.

They really didn't take long to do and the materials used cost about a fiver to make these 10 decorations. I think the catalogue in question was asking £19.99 for four.

23 Nov 2014 22:20:15 | Christmas, Felting, seasonal decorations

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