Last year I used a couple of kits from Hobbysew to make the children small felted bunnies to add to the ridiculously, stupid amount of chocolate left in the house by easter bunny and his associates. This year I went back to Hobbysew but they didn't have anything particularly cute, small, easy, quick to do that was Easterish enough for me. They had some small bears (nah). So - brain wave - I decided to check my bookshelf. Oh, that's what the collection of craft books is for....I think I need some kind of hillbilly, backwoods accent when I say that. I have two versions of the Softies book - this one and this one and my chosen ones are actually on the cover of the second book!.
It is a neat little book - comes in a box, has a set of cards and patterns and instructions. At Brown owls I used the lightbox I fell in love with, to trace the patterns onto some baking paper so that I can keep the originals for posterity - cause that's important. I went back to Hobbysew and got the rest of the stuff I needed - felt and threads. So far, chick with pink hat has been cut out during watching Cinema Paradiso on DVD on the weekend. That was a bit tricky - watching a subtitled movie and cutting out small bits of felt. Great film though. I had seen it years and years ago but Tim had never seen it. It has an interesting theory about creativity and denial or suffering or loss. It seemed to say - you can't have love & happiness and small town life and become a great artist. It is so beautifully made and seemingly so Italian/Sicilian.