Needle felting

One night H and I went to the Fancy Tiger here in Denver. There was a woman there creating a cat head out of different colored wool tufts and a needle. This is the fiber art know as "needle felting." We were both pretty fascinated by this. I ended up purchasing a kit to make an owl and H bought a slew of wool tufts and two needles. This was in the beginning of December 2008. This weekend we finally made time to needle felt!

H made this really awesome giraffe! It's her first needle felted item and it looks great - something like Gary Larsen would have created. I had no idea what to make. So I decided to make an alien but it ended up looking like a demented grape. It also slightly resembles the Domo Kun. Anyway, it's clear I'm headed for greatness in the fiber arts...


Also, amazing things can be done with needle felting like a needle felted:

• yeti
• Xmas pickle
• sloth
• wombat
• squid
• pig
• not sure what these are

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Domo Kun

A co-worker forwarded this to me about 4 years ago - just before the last election. I hung it in my office. This was the first time I saw the Domo Kun.

At least one of you out there has heard of this adorable brown guy - Domo Kun. It (I say "it" because there is clearly no gender associated with Domo Kun - but I've always had the feeling it was male...) is one of those things that I find myself liking although I'm not sure why. Kind of like the ugly dolls.

This short youtube selection provides a flavor of what I think is a Japanese tv show:



A friend of mine sent this next video to me sometime ago. It combines the Domo Kun with a song that is played at the end of the Donnie Darko movie (it's originally a Tears for Fears song I believe).

Domo Darko:





That's all for now, just wanted share. I just finished making some flourless peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies and now I'm just putter around on the internet.

think of the kittens...