needle felted tapestry

On new years day I had to wake up early (7:30!) and go off to work (!) for an all day needle felting workshop.  Now that really sounds a lot worse than what it was - a chance to create something beautiful on the first day of the year with some wonderful people (and water my poor plant that surely would have died in the classroom before January 9th!).

Suzanne Down from Juniper Tree Puppets came to our school and taught a lucky few of us the art of needle felted tapestry.  I took one of her workshops back in 2009 and really enjoyed it.

My boys are pretty much past the stage where I would make one of these sweet pictures for their rooms so I made one for our Sunflower classroom.

Wool roving was felted onto 1/2" sheets of industrial felt - this is about a third of the way done.

The finished product - a field of sunflowers!

One last thing,  have you seen this amazing portfolio of elderly animals?  So beautiful.