Craft: 06 Release party and more monsters

We had a great time attending the release party in LA, at Handmade in Sherman Oaks.

http://flickr.com/groups/719792@N22/pool/37368141@N00/ will take you to the Flikr pool from that day. Thank you to the organizers for a fun time.
When we got home my daughter and I were inspired to continue making softies.
She drew this double sided bunny felt bunny.














I made some bitty conical critters for no good reason than they seemed fun. Now I feel vaguely inspired to make a softie monster chess set....hmmm.

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Pam said…
I looked at all the pictures, that looked like so much fun. We are going to try making our own felt creatures here.
March 14, 2008 at 6:20 AM
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