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Felted Fungus, Apple and Pickle Giveaway!

June 27, 2008 by Linda Lanese

I did an article on the Myriads of Felted Mushrooms by Kathryn Ivy and when I am watching TV at night I have been knitting and needles felting these little treasures.  I made my own double pointed needles from free chopsticks and did get a few splinters, but kept the sand paper near and everything smoothed out in the end. For the most part I followed Kathryn’s instructions but did put my own spin on the mushrooms and then made-up the pickle and Apple patterns.  I used another suggested idea from another article of hand felting with a bar of soap instead of the machine felting.  It was easy and I had very clean hands.   I wanted to share something I made with all of you.  Leave a comment and grab my heart and they will be yours 🙂

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Comments

  1. Karen R says

    June 27, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    The pickle made me laugh. How you do it, I don’t know.

  2. Rachel Crisman says

    June 28, 2008 at 12:34 am

    Hey, These little mushrooms remind me of the Smurfs! So cute,soft and sweet! I like them a bunch. Thank you!

  3. Kari Follett says

    June 28, 2008 at 3:55 am

    Very creative! I had to look twice to see it 🙂 Thanks you.

  4. Turtle says

    June 28, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    I also had to laugh at the pickle and still snickering at the smurf comment. My first thought when seeing the mushrooms was my gram’s kitchen. Very 70’s and full of mushrooms everywhere! i loved it. Apples are sweet but the mushroom is tugging my attention! so cute!

  5. Jersey Jessie says

    June 29, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Hi Linda,

    Fabulous, felted, fungi!

    The pickle is a riot, by the way, but the mushrooms are the best.

  6. Belinda says

    July 1, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    I love the mushrooms. They are adorable and a great way to use up small amount of thread.

  7. Denise says

    July 2, 2008 at 6:20 am

    Very nice! And you needle felt while watching TV, that’s kind of scary… I’ve tried that but the dangers outweight the benenfits!

    I love that pickle!

  8. Sonia says

    July 3, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Cool to make with kids in the house

  9. Amanda & Jessica says

    July 11, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    I am Amanda and I love this felting site you have the coolest stuff. I would love to have these adorable Fungus, pickle and apple. My sister Jessica wants them also. So I hope we win and them we can split them. We are ages 13 and 14 and we are fifteen months apart, so we are very competitive. We both love crafting and come to Craft Gossip to see what is new. Please pick us because we love you and all the columns on the site. We are young so we will be around a long time 🙂

    Hugs, Amanda & Jessica

  10. Gloria says

    July 15, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Very cute Linda. I had to really look at that pickle though!! I wasn’t sure what it was!! LOL

  11. Jerry Mills says

    June 21, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Today I am on a mission to find a pattern for a knitted (felted) pickle. Please share with me….I love the one that is on the “patio” floor in the picture with the mushrooms…

  12. Jerry Mills says

    June 21, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    I love the pickle in the picture. will you share the pattern with me?

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