Felting is my new obsession

I discovered needle felting about a year ago when I was creating decorations for my wedding.  I purchased a pumpkin needle felting kit and proceeded, to my delight, to stab five or six pumpkins into shape (since the one has turned into my pin cushion).  What an utterly cool craft!  I could make anything out of wool roving and a felting needle.  Of course it took an hour for something that ended up being the size of a small tangerine.

My sister taught me to wet felt a few months later.  We made a set of river rocks for my dad for Christmas in about an hour.  This was felting at lightening speeds!  I got excited but put away my new tools as soon as I got home because Christmas and my honeymoon were around the corner.

But it was just recently that I pulled out the stash of roving ends that my sister gave to me after the wet felting and began to think about felting again.  I've been making baby mobile for my etsy store out of recycled plastic felt -- cutting the felt into shapes like clouds, mountains, and celestial bodies.  I decided to try my hand at needle felting a mobile for my first mobile request.  I have since run out of supplies (white roving and I lost a felting needle) so I'm waiting on that to come in before finishing off the pieces and putting my new mobile techniques to the test.

However, the lack of white roving has not stopped me from visiting the library and checking out a book on needle and wet felting called "Warm Fuzzies" by Betz White.  From my recycled plastic felt and a few strands of color, came this pear.

I also dug up an old felted sweater to use for stuffing and ended up making this bird nest.  

Lastly, I tried for a bird and it was a noble first effort but sad nonetheless.