stitching...

I'm off duty from World Market. Time to stitch!

Bag of legs already stitched:

handstitching takes a lot of time!

hooves:

20 bodies and rear finished and ready for legs and head piece

little rear piece, so cute!

little oxen pieces

legs:

forehead:
face:


rear pieces

bellies

close up of flower

flowers w/out pearls

flowers

bodies

Asian Ox experiment

new Asian Ox photos: Experimenting with different color and stitching technique. Beverly's ran out of the color I wanted, so I used this "cashmere tan" felt.

aproximately 6 inches in length

belly photo:

regular stitching: horn revision:

I'll switch to a thinner thread for the mouth. It looks too bulky for me!

I just hot glued some ivory petals and pinned this flower temporarily:

Asian Felt Ox

Here is a really cool and large project! Felt Asian ox!

Usually I make little felt critters no larger than 2 x 3 inches in size, but this turned out to be a nice challenge for me. The first one is complete, and I have 19 more to go. I'm ready for assembly line production!

Asian Ox with bell photoshopped in:

Front view with bell photoshopped in:

Top view

detail of hoof:


detail of front hoof:




backside


ear and horn stitching:
horn assembly: 2 pieces felt glued together, then handstitched:

more detail of horn and ear:

close up of eye and smile:

super close up of face....too close!

belly.....and also, I think I'll stuff him from the rear, not his neck like this one...

about 2 1/2 inches

about 9 inches

felt lion finger puppet

How cute is this little guy? I made this one for my nephew Tristan:

Here is the pattern....very simple and easy for me!



here are all of the felt pieces:

My mom gave me a whole bag of these yellow leather tassels:

so now I have a lions mane!

here it is all glued together: