羊毛氈 Felt Wool~花栗鼠 Little Chipmunk

這隻花栗鼠從秋天拮到冬天...一來拮羊毛氈需時, 二來因為牠的外形不易塑(跟書做), 曾經一度被丟低沒理會.  但總不能半途而癈....唯有繼續努力.....!

不要小看一隻小小的鼠, 用的毛色很多呢!  要把牠完成一點也不簡單!  完成了卻很滿足.  ^_^

花栗鼠, 原來跟松鼠不一樣, 但是屬於松鼠科.  我只知牠叫chipmunk.  在加拿大看到牠就開心死了, 超可愛的!

维基百科，自由的百科全书

花栗鼠属（学名：Tamias），也叫花鼠，是松鼠科地松鼠族的一屬。共有23種，其中西伯利亞花栗鼠生活在亞洲東北部，東部花栗鼠生活在美國和加拿大的東部，其餘的品種均生活在北美洲的西部。

This little chipmunk was started in autumn and finished in the winter.  Needle felting takes a long time, plus that its body isn't easy to shape(I followed a book).  So I've let it sit for some time after I've started.  Can't leave it unfinished of course, so I picked it up again so here it is!

Although it's just a little chipmunk, I've used a lot of colours of wool.  It sure wasn't easy to finish, but I'm content about the finished product.  ^_^

Chipmunks are actually different than squirrels, although they are of the squirrel family.  I was thrilled when I saw them in Canada.  They're sssuch adorable little creatures!!

About 4.4cm tall

With its forest friends.

羊毛氈 Feltwool~Baby Panda

本來這是農歷新年課程, 但是最後因為種種原因來不及新年前推出, 唯有刪掉跟農歷年有關的內容...

有興趣的朋友可以電郵查詢:
flminiature.crafts@gmail.com

This was going to be a course for the Chinese New Year, but because of various reasons, I couldn't finish it before the CNY, therefore I omitted the CNY related content.

Please feel free to email me at the above email address.

可以陪伴你的物件...  Can accompany your stuff...

                                                                    

新增說明文字

或可陪伴你!  Or accompany you!

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Miniature/Felt Wool~Easter in the Forest

Easter in the Forest 2010

這是2010 的作品, 但未放在blog 裏.  是結合粘土跟羊毛氈的作品.

This was 2010's work, but wasn't in my blog.  I combined clay and felt wool together.

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Miniature Feltwool迷你.羊毛氈- Midnight Autumn

喜愛秋季.  秋天的顏色都是橙、啡、黃等....給人一種很温馨温暖的感覺.  我也最愛earth colours, 所以看到就份外高興.  這處的秋季也很乾爽舒服.  只是有點淒涼的感覺....

最懷念是以前Thanksgiving 有火雞吃的日子, 一家人或朋友聚在一起, 感覺暖笠笠的, 很warm!

今年結合迷你粘土+羊毛氈, 制作出上年已構思好的迷你情境.

Autumn is my favorite season here.  It's dry and cool, and I love seeing all those earthy colours...orange, yellow, brown...gives me a warm cozy feeling.

I always think back to the old days when we had home-baked turkey...friends and family gathered together and having Thanksgiving dinner...how warm it was!

This year I combined miniature clay work and feltwool.  It's a setting that I wanted to do last year.

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Felt Wool Mobile Bag 羊毛氈手機套

有新的手機, 自然需要新的手機套.  之前做的用不着了...

今次選的是給人很平靜感覺的藍綠色....是Hamanaka Natural Cotton Blend 的其中一種色.  看上去很舒服, 我很喜歡.

方法是先針氈2塊羊毛, 然後包起型版再用濕氈方法搓.  這方法可以加速完成的速度.  我低估了縮氈的程度, 做得太緊了, 剛放得入但有點勉強.  唯有硬着頭皮再做!

做起了發覺不捨得用呢!

I've got a new mobile, so I need to make another wool case for it. 

This time I chose a calming turquoise.  This is one of the Japanese brand, Hamanaka's wool.  It's really soothing to look at, I like the colour!

First I needle-felted two pieces of wool, then used the wet method to shrink the case to the right size.  However, I underestimated the shrinkage and it turned out too tight.  It barely fits.  So I had to do it all over again...We learn by past mistakes...that's how we learn.  -_-

濕氈工真, 有凹凸粒粒, 加快速度 Using a felting tool to speed up the process

縮氈前後的大小差別  Difference between before and after shrinking

型版就是原來的大小  This is how much they have shrunk

第ニ次刻意做薄些  The 2nd one was made thinner

羊毛氈-小刺猬 Feltwool-Little Hedgehog

 

終於現身了!  親子小刺猬, 即媽媽&BB刺猬.

有做開羊毛氈的朋友, 或許會認得這是日本材料包來的.  出了很久了 (亦買了很久, 放了很久).

可能我內芯拮得太實, 最終不夠羊毛而需買多些回來補.  比原來用多了$!

小刺猬的刺是一針一線縫出來的.  針紙超強(說反話)的我找媽媽求救.  媽媽示範後我便自己來.  哦!  原來如此穿.  又挺好玩的!  其實大可照平常方法拮出來, 但不試過就不會懂怎麼穿了.

They're finally here!  Mommy and Baby Hedgehog!

This is from a Japanese feltwool kit.  I bought it a long time ago.

Maybe because I poked too much and too hard, I ended having to buy some more wool to finish the baby Hedgehog.  

I used the thread and needle for the hedgehogs' quills.  Sewing has always been my specialty (I'm lying)!  I needed mom's help.  After mom's demo, I tried myself.  I see!  That's how you do it.  It's quite fun actually!  I could have used the wool felting technique to do the quills but then I would never learn how to do the sewing.

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羊毛氈預告 Felt Wool Preview

冇時間upload, 暫upload 一幅先!

No time to upload.  Let me upload one photo for now!

給媽媽的羊毛氈扣針 Felted Wool Pin for Mom

寒冬已過, 春天才做起襯托媽媽羊毛氈頸巾的扣針 (羊毛氈頸巾是給媽媽的生日禮物).  我真的非常慢.  開始不久便放在一旁, 偶然又拿出來"拮兩拮", 又把它收起....太多不同的事情要做, 變得每樣東西都做不好了.

玫瑰花形的扣針是用羊毛片組合成的.  因為用上頸巾相同的顏色, 要加一些綠色才能把花朵突顯出來.  因為頸巾在媽媽處, 未能一起拍個照.

DH 說花瓣略厚了些.  我沒想過啊!  挺些不好嗎?

The cold winter is over, but I've just finished the wool pin to match mom's wool scarf (made for her birthday).  I'm really slow in DIYs.  I've started this pin quite a while ago, but every time I do a little and put it down.  Pick it up and then put it away again.....  There are too many things to do, so nothing much is done at the end.

The rose pin is made of separate pedals felted together.  Since the same colours are used, some green at the bottom is needed to make the flower stand out.  I can't take pictures of it with the scarf yet, because the scarf is at mom's.

DH said the petals are a bit too thick.  I didn't think about this...At least it's stiffer this way?