New kind of baby mobiles -- all needle felted!

So I was getting a bit bored with cutting out shapes, stitching, and stuffing.  To move on and create something new, I delved into needle felting baby mobiles.  The first one I'm creating is a re-creation of my original mobiles: Spring Showers.

Instead I'm needle felting everything.  Here are the pieces of the new one (yet to be assembled):

I really like the soft poofy-ness of the clouds and the raindrops.  Making the rainbow was TIME CONSUMING.  I made the base out of some less processed roving that I bought on ebay for a steal and then needled each color on in stripes around the base shape.  Its not quite as awesome as I'd like for it to be, but maybe I should think about combining the needle felted clouds with the more practical (and cuter, I think) recycled felt rainbow...

I also made another trip to the thrift store and returned with a pile of wool sweaters that I immediately felted down.  One of my next projects will be to make a felted sweater cappuccino a la betz white!  Ooo, I can replace my current pin cushion, which is a pumpkin I needle felted for a wedding decoration (still need to figure out what to do with all those pumpkins).

Next I'm working on a family of bats for Halloween.  To quote a stamp I recently found: "To be frank, I love Halloween."