Sunday, 31 January 2010

King Winter

I'm most pleased to introduce 'King Winter' to you.


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I made this little regal fellow at a workshop run by the ever talented Miriam www.juulsbellybutton.blogspot.com which I attended last weekend.  Made from 100% natural materials, the head is sewn in a similar way to a small Waldorf doll, the body needlefelted from wool roving.  His clothing is made from wool felt, and his flamboyant facial hair from unspun sheeps wool .  I love the 'icy' dye of the wool cloak, I didn't do it, but Miriam said that you could do it yourself by applying dye with scrunched up flypaper.  Sounds fun, I must try it sometime.


And here he is making our winter nature table look rather more impressive.


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It's all rather ironic, having a winter nature table centred around snow and ice, when its been the mildest, wettest of winters here.  


We are far more accustomed to this of late (view of Lions Gate Bridge if you can just about glimpse it through the mist)


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