These lovely penguins are needle felted onto polystyrene with a wood button added as a foot. Amusing eyes are added at the end for a humorous expression.
Mice and hearts are needle felted onto polystyrene eggs and polystyrene hearts. Printed felt from the Helsinki series is added to the mice which have been given a small flower pot body painted with A-Color matt. Beautiful Helsinki ribbon is used for hanging the hearts.
Felt wool onto the polystyrene item using a felting needle. The longer you felt, the denser the wool becomes.
Push the amusing eyes – adding a blob of glue onto the back of the eye – into the polystyrene item.
Felt the beak, feet and wings separately on a needle felting foam pad.
Felt on the beak, wings and feet.
Felt the hat separately making a thick triangular shape.
Felt the hat onto the front of the head.
The needle felted mice's bodies are small terracotta flower pots painted with A-Color matt. The dots are made with the end of a brush handle. The Christmas hats are small pieces of triangular printed felt from the Vivi Gade Helsinki series glued on with a glue gun.
Felt the mice's heads with grey wool onto polystyrene eggs. Felt the ears separately on a needle felting foam pad and then felt them onto the head. To make small eyes and snouts; felt for longer and towards the middle of the woollen dots.
Felt the hearts with a felting needle and wool onto polystyrene hearts. The ribbons for hanging are from the Vivi Gade Helsinki series and are felted onto the hearts with a small wad of wool at the end.
