Archive for February 1, 2012

From fiber to fun

Today I began to work on a new goal – 50 cat toys by winter’s end.  (not that I’ve completed my other goals, just diversifying)

ready to felt
Tools for felting
I separated bats of carded fiber into strips, wrapped the strips around those little white ovals of plastic and felted it by rubbing it in bubble wrap, adding hot water and dish soap.  I’ve shown this process before so won’t repeat all the details.  After a few hours, I have dish-pan hands, sore feet from standing in one place, a tray of dirty soap bubbles and

cat toys in the making

Ready to be filled

 
10 cat toys (there are 2 black ones, hard to see them).  These are already dry.  Next they get stuffed with catnip and the holes sewn up tight.