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I made this green batt some years ago and brought to my parents' house but don't remember what I had planned for it. Per...
11/06/2026

I made this green batt some years ago and brought to my parents' house but don't remember what I had planned for it. Perhaps I did intend to make gnome hats.

Visiting my parents for a couple of days. The plan is to just rest in a hammock, but wanted to be a little productive fi...
10/06/2026

Visiting my parents for a couple of days. The plan is to just rest in a hammock, but wanted to be a little productive first so I made 10 gnome hats and filled a bucket with w**d to give the strawberry plants some more space.
I am trying to ignore the raindrops. I do NOT want to move!

I have become a help admin in the group "Felting Challenge", and talked a bit with the founder Debbie Penley about tryin...
06/06/2026

I have become a help admin in the group "Felting Challenge", and talked a bit with the founder Debbie Penley about trying a new concept for the challenges. Instead of voting each month, we are given several options that we can also try and combine. The words for June are "puzzle", "repetition", "growth" and the concept of responding to an earlier work.

This post isn´t so much about the challenge itself. It is about the urge to create, and why so many of us have so many UFO:s. (UnFinishedObjects, for those who are not familiar with the term!)
When I get an idea, I want to start on it immediately. It is like an itch, a longing, an urge. Yes, I do have a bunch of dice goblins to finish, plus a hundred other UFOs and a thousand other ideas but I want to try this challenge idea NOW! My plan is to respond to this liquorice troll that I made in 2018, before I started Cariad. One simpler, smaller version and one more detailed.

This urge made me reflect over creativity. Sensible people might tell you to finish one thing before starting another. I have even said so myself to a friend who gets inspired to start felting projects, put them on ice and then start something new when they get inspired to do something else.
I am sorry that I said that. I didn´t understand something important, that didn´t hit me until today.
It´s not about finishing.
It´s all about enjoying to create.

I really wanted to start on these liquorice trolls, both of them. The ideas and steps kept swirling in my head. Had I then picked up my dice goblins and worked on them, while longing to do something else, they wouldn´t have had any love in them and love is what gives them soul. Creating them wouldn´t have been an enjoyable process - and if not, what is the point? I am way over the anxiousness I had in the beginning of my business, when I tried to figure out what peoplw might want to buy, and I realised that I did not enjoy creating for the sole purpose of selling.
What I want is to feel what I felt today when I started on the trolls, a deep joy and satisfaction. Curiosity, how will this take form? Where will my ideas take us, me and the trolls?

That is one of the reasons I have UFO:s - that I put other work on hold because I suddenly want to do something else. The plan is never to completely abandon them. I do plan to finish most of them. Some day. Or some year.
Let me know your thoughts about UFOs?

Needles in the right bag now!
03/06/2026

Needles in the right bag now!

Noooo! I had prepared a little bag so that I could work on the bus to my footcare job and lunch break, but the needle se...
30/05/2026

Noooo! I had prepared a little bag so that I could work on the bus to my footcare job and lunch break, but the needle set I had prepared didn't get in it! I have no needles until I get home again!
There is a hobby store close to my workplace. I could buy one of their overpriced crap needles. But I really don't want to. I think I'll just go to the charity shop and buy a book for my lunch break instead.

The last update for today.
29/05/2026

The last update for today.

Ears take a long time to shape, since I want them to be completely solid. 14 ears would take me days with a needle, and ...
29/05/2026

Ears take a long time to shape, since I want them to be completely solid. 14 ears would take me days with a needle, and I want these dice goblins to be affordable. Therefore I prefelted by hand with soapy water, took a deep breath, threw them into the washing machine on the highest possible temperature and prayed to the wool gods.
They were very graceful!
The next step is to felt seven small hats.

Needle felted fox after a tutorial by on s course platform Felingtutorials.com . Head, tail and limbs are poseable. ...
29/05/2026

Needle felted fox after a tutorial by on s course platform Felingtutorials.com . Head, tail and limbs are poseable.

Dice goblin factory. 14 ears is waiting to be transformed from that fluffy pile.My husband Rune helped me choose the rig...
28/05/2026

Dice goblin factory. 14 ears is waiting to be transformed from that fluffy pile.
My husband Rune helped me choose the right green, he knows more about these creatures than I do.

Sofa day today, have a light cold. Working on a fox from a feltingtutorials.com class.
28/05/2026

Sofa day today, have a light cold. Working on a fox from a feltingtutorials.com class.

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