{"id":1503,"date":"2011-04-18T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2011-04-16T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T04:11:16","slug":"needlefelting-totoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/needlefelting-totoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Needlefelting Totoro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It turns out that Totoros are easy shapes to needle felt, being mostly egg shaped. I was working from the picture in the front of the Totoro from-the-movie book, and I think it’s really interesting how differently the two Chu Totoros turned out. Since I was aiming for the same shape, obviously I am not an expert at this! But they are still both recognizable. The first Chu Totoro went to a Totoro loving friend for their birthday, and the second Chu Totoro and Chibi Totoro have joined our official Ghibli O-Totoro. Now I just need one of those super big Cat Busses to stuff them all in! Except for how we already have a little Cat Bus, and I really don’t need any more stuffed animals in this house! I would like to make a camphor tree for them to play in, but before I’m allowed to make it I need to figure out where we could keep it!<\/p>\n

Also, if you want to teach your children to wet-felt, the bathtub is a great place to start! Rebecca and Penelope were in the bathtub, and I gave them some wet soapy balls of wool, and they rolled them and rolled them, dunked them in a bowl of ice water to thermal shock them, and rolled them, and dunked them back in the bath, and rolled them and… I remember last time we tried to do wet felting they got water everywhere, got wet, and then got bored. This time they were already in the bathtub, so immediately 50% better.<\/p>\n

Rebecca wet felted a ball, then after everyone was out of the bath she needle felted it purple (since we didn’t have any black roving), added two eyes, and presto, her very own soot-sprite! That she pretty much made herself! (And I have no picture of because it got lost almost immediately…)<\/p>\n

And a question I would really like to hear your answer to: Would you rather an electronic pattern have the steps documented by photographs or illustrations? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that Totoros are easy shapes to needle felt, being mostly egg shaped. I was working from the picture in the front of the Totoro from-the-movie book, and I think it’s really interesting how differently the two Chu Totoros turned out. Since I was aiming for the same shape, obviously I am not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[27,103,104,102,83],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","tag-needle-felting","tag-roving","tag-totoro","tag-wet-felting","tag-wool","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-of","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}