catty needle felting
Nov. 8th, 2010 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nid_dabeilleI just finished my first needle felting project! It was a kit from my friend DB. Thanks, babe! It was fun!
The kit was for a gray cat, but I decided to adapt it to look like my own kitty Nemorino (Nemo).
Nemo likes him. I think he'd probably play with him and tear him apart if I'd let him. I actually used some of Nemo's fur in it, just for fun, so he probably smells it.
It all started when I told DB about making felted balls of the cats' fur after brushing them and cleaning out the brush over long periods of time. Crazy, I know. But I've since found multiple bloggers who do the same, some even dying them with kool-aid (especially for white cats) and making jewelry with them.
Nemo will attack and play with them any time he can get his paws on them, so I have to store them out of reach. (He'll also reach his paw into the waste basket to pull out blobs of fur from the brush if I leave them uncovered, and then eat them and barf them up later. Thanks, Nemo.) He likes woolly things anyway, so a woolly thing that smells like himself and is kind of bouncy and rolls on the floor? Awesome!
Little Nemo and his brethren.
He regards them with a smug complacent look upon his horsey doggish face. (Sculpture was never my forte.)
Gianni meets his tiny brother
The Nemos share an uneasy peace
...which is soon broken.
Clearly I will have to store Little Nemo up high and out of reach, along with the fur balls.
The kit was for a gray cat, but I decided to adapt it to look like my own kitty Nemorino (Nemo).
Nemo likes him. I think he'd probably play with him and tear him apart if I'd let him. I actually used some of Nemo's fur in it, just for fun, so he probably smells it.
It all started when I told DB about making felted balls of the cats' fur after brushing them and cleaning out the brush over long periods of time. Crazy, I know. But I've since found multiple bloggers who do the same, some even dying them with kool-aid (especially for white cats) and making jewelry with them.
Nemo will attack and play with them any time he can get his paws on them, so I have to store them out of reach. (He'll also reach his paw into the waste basket to pull out blobs of fur from the brush if I leave them uncovered, and then eat them and barf them up later. Thanks, Nemo.) He likes woolly things anyway, so a woolly thing that smells like himself and is kind of bouncy and rolls on the floor? Awesome!
Little Nemo and his brethren.
He regards them with a smug complacent look upon his horsey doggish face. (Sculpture was never my forte.)
Gianni meets his tiny brother
The Nemos share an uneasy peace
...which is soon broken.
Clearly I will have to store Little Nemo up high and out of reach, along with the fur balls.
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Date: 2010-11-08 11:28 pm (UTC)Also, finally! A crafty use for cat hair! (I have two that shed like billy-oh.)
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Date: 2010-11-08 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-11-09 05:54 am (UTC)Anyway, you are so very talented. Not only that you make wonderful miniatures, now you are the master felter of the world.
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Date: 2010-11-15 07:29 am (UTC)