Creative Joy

Joy doesn't cancel out the heavy things, it gives you little pockets of strength to carry on. Let it in whenever and wherever you can. Stacie Swift

Last year I made Kelly (Sam's girlfriend) a tiny felted tree for her tiny apartment to go along with her tiny real Christmas tree. This year she and Sam have a much larger loft apartment with high ceilings....so they have an 8 foot Christmas tree. 

But I thought I would start a bit of a tradition and continue to grow her tiny felted forest. So I settled in today and made another tiny tree...this one a bit of a contrast to the green one from last year. 

There aren't too many things that bring me more joy than creating something for someone I love. 

I started with a triangular piece of white wool felt...red roving...and my needle felting supplies. Using little tufts of wool...I felted polka dots by teasing the roving into the white base with a felting needle. I worked on a thick foam base.

Once I had all the polka dots secured...I used my tool that has 4 needles...so can felt 4 times as fast. 

I slip stitched the side seam closed and stuffed the tree. I cut a piece of wool to stitch onto the bottom and added a few more polka dots over the seam.

The stem is a piece of a kabob skewer and the base is from my stash. I painted a real starfish gold for the top. I'm pretty tickled with my creative joy project!