wooly wednesday [made in michigan]

A tribute to homegrown wooly deliciousness

made in Michigan

by The Au Gres Sheep Factory.

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wooly weekend

Another day and one more wooly sheep chair pad.

Made with my Shetland wool fleece. Love the moorit [Reese] and white [Dove]!

HEY!!!! I thought that sheepy looked familiar? [locker hooked vs. needle felted] hahaha

AND ~~~ If you’re local and looking for something fiberlicious to do ~~~ check out the Spring Fiber Expo this weekend in Ann Arbor!

Happy Day!

Indulge…

I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter holiday! As with any family gathering, I think we all ate too much!

So, how about indulging in a zero-calorie strawberry tart?  

The strawberry is needle felted with hand-dyed wool, stitched on wool fabric for leaves and a few black seed beads…and glued into a vintage tart tin.

Sweet!

And here’s another needle felted sheep pinkeep.

The sheep is needle felted and sits on an old thread spool that I covered/stuffed  with wool. I embellished it with a few stitched daisy/crystal beads. I ripped muslin strips and stamped ‘pin-keep’, baa, etc and wrapped it onto the spool. 

Last, here’s another needle felted sheep with bamboo skewers for little legs, painted with acrylic paint, poked and glued into the wool body. I added a few alphabet beads to spell ‘baa’ and tied it around her neck!

Also sweet!

I never get tired of making sheep…

Happy day!

Meet ‘Rosebud’

After skirting my Shetland wool fleece for most of the day yesterday, (btw, I’m STILL not done!) I had to make something sheepy and wooly…

Ergo, meet ‘Rosebud’, a needle felted pinkeep.

She’s needle felted in a rather tall, slender, cylindrical shape; the black ‘head’ and tail were needle felted separately and also attached with the felting needle.

I made rosebuds from wool snippets, and needle felted a bit of a stem, stitched on a few vintage mother of pearl buttons and a decorative ribbon (grass?) at the base. She sits in a recycled vintage tart tin! I added a little rusty bell around her neck.

She worked-up rather quickly…just what I needed!

A simple, no-sew project!

♥blessings!