Needle felting

So, I've been trying my hand at needle felting.

 I ordered a needle felting kit and a few balls of fluffy merino top wool and spent the weekend trying not to impale my fingers!!

  I started with a simple cat I thought it would fairly easy,... it wasn't...

 My first efforts didn't quite turn out the way I'd hoped but they're ok for inital attempts. (Oh! and yes I wished I brought some finger guards before I started!)

Then, inspired by some of the blogs I follow (Robin Andreae and Barby Anderson),  I tried my hand at a wired creature... I was thinking along the lines of a cute 'Mr Mouse.'

freeze! the cat's around here somewhere!!!

"Run!"

Sadly, I ran out of white wool (I only had pink left) so he wasn't as fat (or cute) as I'd meant him to be.. 
So he's more of a 'Mr scary white lab rat does a bit of shopping'....

.....

 Oh well time to order more wool and fatten him up....

"Thank you"said Mr rat trying not to look too odd.