Making Felted Wool Hand Puppets!
These turned out so cute. The first one took about 4 hours because I’m inept at sewing, really inept is giving it a positive spin. The second one only took about an hour because I had figured it out and knew what I was doing! I can’t wait to make more. I hunted for pink wool to felt at Goodwill today so that I could make the pink mouths like in the book Warm Fuzzies by Betz White which can be purchased from Amazon here. The boys have loved these and now I’m in love with felted wool projects. NO finished edges - I can handle that! We named the first one, Gus - he’s got the red nose. The second one is named Lucy. They’re coming to church with us tomorrow.
Tags: Dogs, felting, felting wool, fulling, Goodwill, hand puppets, puppets, recycled sweaters, wool felt
December 9th, 2008 at 1:04 am
[...] White wrote Warm Fuzzies, the book that I created my first felted wool project from (the felted puppets). I love the book! I looked up her blog online here and found a great tutorial for cashmere [...]
December 14th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
These turned out so cute. Are they really easy? I love working with the felted wool, but it’s so thick it does get hard to sew. I’ll have to get the book.
December 14th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Thx for the comment - they ARE really easy! I am a walking “what not to do when sewing” book, I promise…if I can do them ANYBODY can. The first one took about 3 hours but once I figured it out, I made the 2nd one in just under an hour.
Easy peasy, I promise! Plus, you can email me if you have any questions.
xoxo
Lizabeth
liz@sparkbark.com
December 16th, 2008 at 1:03 am
[...] This was project #2 out of the book for me. The first was the felted hand puppets that you can see here. I took a third project from her blog which was the Cashmere Bunnies you can see here. As you can [...]