By aiemster
Easy felted wool animals, right?
So one Saturday my friend and I decide to do a bunch of crafts from the Martha Stewart easy Christmas magazine. We both bought it and had grand plans. We were going to make beaded butterflies, Christmas cards and felted wool animals. No problem, or so we thought. My friend blew up the pattern for the lamb, the pig and the birds. I had collected a number of wool sweaters at my local thrift shop and had put them through the wash and dryer a number of times. Tiny sweaters, and pattern ready I cut out all my pieces, and boy were they tiny, but no big deal, or so I thought. I’m new to sewing and tried to sew my wool pieces with the sewing machine, jamming the thing over and over. So I start to hand sew all the tiny pieces! Then I realized in cutting out my pattern I had done one side the wrong way and it wouldn’t match up. No biggie I’d go back and cut with my leftover sweater piecies, ugh. I didn’t realize as I sewed that I had dropped the main head piece on the floor, so by the time I sewed and stuffed the thing it was too late. Oh well he would just be “cute” with his gigantic ears sticking up. I finish the thing hours later and look at it done and just start laughing, what was this thing?? Especially when I found that head piece on the floor under the table. We gave up after 2 or 3 hours having only finished my lamb and her duck (not a craftfail). We went and showed the guys and they made a few comments on my GIRAFFE! It ended up as a dog toy and as soon as my dog Elroy picked it up the tail dropped right off! So much for felted lambs!
B.T.W. I did end up making two pigs and two birds (though mine were ducks, not chickens, lost some head pieces again)
I heard once that Martha always leaves one detail or ingredient out of her published instructions/recipes so that you will never be able to duplicate it. I’m starting to believe the rumor …
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that’s a great story! the lamb does kinda look like a giraffe. do you have pics of the others?
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hah! I actually kind of love it!
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lol, my dogs have so many of my failed craft animals.. that made me laugh.
Hahahaha… What is that…?…OH My… How many time I suffered from craft fail……Thanx for sharing…
Love the site! Very cute stuff. Thanks for sharing!
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I do have some pictures of my non craftfail animals and will post them soon. I have tried alot of Martha projects and every single one comes out bably. I think she must leave that one step out! (can’t be user error!!)
that is too funny! Althought I’ve felted purses, I’ve not had the guts to try felting critters for that very reason.
Simple fix for your giraffe. Call it a llama. :)
I’ve actually made the chicken from this pattern, a total of four of them. I skipped the felting stage and made them from felt, and it worked out rather well, I thought.
I had the same experience as Mary when I tried to make the Mini Magazine Holder, but found Martha’s online template impossible to format for print. Found out from a credible source that I was not imagining this difficulty — it’s a true flaw. And I was beginning to feel incapable over nothing!?
This is pretty funny! Thanks for sharing!
Wrong color or it would look like Eeyore.