Needles......felt.....ah-ha!..... Doves

Morning all,

 

I hope you're all keeping well and dry - can't you tell winter is on it's way?! first we get rain, rain, rain and then we get clear, crisp autumnal days and then.....back to the rain! *sigh* I do wonder if the weather is ever going to settle back into a 'normal' pattern. Probably not. But oh well!

 

Anyway, on to my post for today. I just really wanted to share these little cutie pies with you:

They are needle-felted doves. You can blame Kirstie Allsopp for getting me hooked on yet another crafting past-time (although I hasten to add, it's all mums equipment - so technically no one can have a go at me for yet 'more stuff'! hehe). I got hooked on her little robin that she made in her channel 4 programme last year - which you can see here and then mum and I were plotting...ehem - planning things for this years church christmas fair and what we thought might sell and we came up with the idea of making doves for decortations and these are the finished result.

We're currently bleaching tree branches which we will place the doves into so that they look like their sitting in a tree, but I couldn't wait to show you them until then, as I gave them their debut airing as part of my table decorations at the wedding fair I did a few weeks back.

Well, that's about it, until next time - happy crafting!