:Needle Felted Rat Stumpy:

Sorry the photos aren't all that great, but I wanted to share my first felted creation!

I found felting to be really fun and easy for me, I have lots of patients to just sit there for 10 hours stabbing him a million times with a needle until he becomes the right shape. LOL. It's a very intuitive art, it's closest to clay sculpting, but without the mess.

He's entirely solid felt, with 7mm glass teddy eyes, and clear jewellery elastic for his whiskers.

If you'd like to know more about needle-felting I suggest you search for tutorial videos on youtube.

This is a life-sized statue of my late rat, Stumpy, may he RIP. Unfortunately he passed away over new years, I was devastated. :'C

Here's an old video of his antics from when he was younger, he was such a little joker, always making me laugh- [link]