Off and on, during snippets of time I've been dipping my hands in hot, soapy water...and with elbow grease....creating felted acorns.
During our daily 'forced march' last fall, I gathered quite a bunch of acorn tops.
I had an urge to do something with them....esp. since I was in need of a gift for a creative person I admire. So, out came dyed wool roving in as many fall colors as I had.
Then, with the DVR tuned to my archive of "Housewives" shows....a bowl of hot water and some soap.....
I squeezed, rolled, patted, and otherwise manipulated some shapes to fit into the acorn lids.
And....here are the results.....
15 comments:
the first word that sprang to mind delightful
Oh my...what a huge amount of work!!! They are little beauties that's for sure!!!
those are my colors...love them !
So creative and cute. I love it.
oooh those little nuggets!!!
What an ingenious idea Mary.
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LeeAnna Paylor
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How cool! If you put one on a necklace you could use it as a pincushion around your neck that travels with you :-)
Love!
Looks like a lot of work, but well worth the effort I am sure.
Love the colors... I wonder if the squirrels in my yard would go for these?!
These are so awesome! What a fun, creative way to decorate for autumn!
They are darling. I, too, have a bunch of the little caps... picked in years previous, but saved to make hats for little woodland people - as shown on the Carol Duval show years ago. Still haven't found the time.
Your green ones look like the acorns on my oak tree now. Thanks for sharing your project.
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Cute!
Amazing! I adore the wonderful texture in the acorn caps.....your wool roving "acorns" are marvelous!
Those are very cool , very clever idea.
they are so charming!! cuties! and a beautiful collection,too!
So autumnal! At an oak wood near me, the ground is now littered with fallen acorns and painty brown leaves.
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