Sometimes in life you just have to accept that you are awesome.
I know, it's a hard lesson...but even the hard lessons need to be learned.
I learned my lesson last night when I finished a project that Laurel and I had started together. It was going to be an embroidered felted bowl. (felted first, with an embroidered design inside the bowl on the bottom) First I crocheted the bowl, then we felted it by tossing it in the washer and dryer with all our other laundry. (I know...we're so awesome we can experiment with a new craft AND get the halibut blood out of my pants at the same time)
I had never felted anything like this before, so I was surprised to see it didn't shrink that much. Since it was still so tall I thought the design might look better on the outside. I gave it some thought, and I decided to needle felt a design on instead. (the kids and I had just tried our first needle felting project the week before) We had some leftover wool; and at first I was thinking starfish...since they are around us all the time. But then I had an inspired thought...a squid!
All in all...it took no more than 10 minutes to felt the little guy! We all loved him so much we gave him a home on our super-special-project shelf.
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