Felted Clog Slippers with Needle Felted Design

{ October 30, 2011 @ 11:08 pm } · { Brother Knitting Machine, cozy, felted, Gift, knitted, project, socks, Warm, Wool Yarn, yarn }
{ Tags: Brother Bulky Machine, Brother Knitting Machine, Bulky Brother Machine, Felted Clogs, Felting, Needle Felting, Paton's wool yarn, Roving }

This is my firts attempt at needle felting. There certainly is an art to it that I need to work on. I bought roving from an Etsy store and I am glad that I did. It is beautiful and has a much better quality than what you find in craft stores. The link to that store is

http://www.etsy.com/shop/slimchicken

This project took several hours to do. It was fun and relaxing though. I can not get the color exact with my camera. The orange in the butterfly is only slightly darker than it appears and is in the color range of the light orange flowers. I also put two orange stitches in the heel of the rigt slipper to tell the difference in the two feet but that wasn’t necessary since the design is different on each slipper!

I won’t be able to do this project for awhile.  I watched a video and they said to be careful with your fingers being too close and getting stabbed with the needle . Yah, right. Well, they were right! I only stabbed myself and drew blood three times! lol