Matty's Birthday and Repurposed Wool

We have more birthdays in February than any other month.  Most of the family birthdays are lumped into about a one month time period - from January 19-February 20 (Jared, Hazel, Ezra, my mother, Shaury, Matt and Dave!)

Mike and I took Matt to lunch today at Cafe Rio's. I forgot to take a picture, so I pulled this one off his facebook page.

I love working with wool and found a super buy at Savers this afternoon. Everything was half off today. So I picked up quite a few 100% wool sweaters for between $2 and $3 each.

I will felt them by putting them in the washer with a few tennis balls, hot water and detergent. The agitation will break down the fibers and is the first step to "felting" wool. After placing in the dryer the pieces will be ready to be used. Sometimes these two steps have to be repeated a few times.

 I plan on making a few more puppets.