Please meet Chester

Please meet Chester the squirrel..  Lovingly needle felted in wool..  I have more hours and days than I care to mention in his creation, but enjoyed every moment..  I am so happy with my new needle felting wood tool. It holds up to 4 needles in a very small circumference... This is good because I work small, not miniature, but small. It has really saved my wrist..  I find that I can needle felt a little longer and do not wind up at days end with a sore wrist. . 

 He stands about 7 1/2" to the tip of his tail.  I gave him acrylic inset eyes and sculpted his hands and feet in paper clay, then painted them and sealed.

With Chester,  I really wanted to capture more of a realistic look...  I don't think I am there just yet, but close.. I am happy with him.  

I thought he should have a nut or something to hold onto, so I saved an apricot seed for him..

If you would like to visit his auction, click on Ebay

   In progress photos below

I made a wire armature of  covered wire then wound wool yarn around the armature. It is then that I started needle felting with the natural wool

Looks pretty silly 

My reference material... I don't know what he looks like at this point.

I kept looking at the hands and feet thinking how am I going to do the little fingers.

So I sculpted them of paper clay glued and slipped them over the wool hands and feet.

His tail was the last part I made, so as not to muss it up...

Here I thought he looked much like a little hamster,

 Finished

I hope you enjoyed.

Thank you so much for wandering over...

Blessings,

Penny