To go with the explorer, I needed to make a monkey, which I was kind of dreading. I made a cat armature in first year, that ended up with spaghetti legs. I planned to needle felt it which was also scary! New things! Ahh!
To make sure that the monkey armature didn't end up being too big I planned it all out on top of the armature design, with not much help from my cat...
K&S all glued in it's place! Then made sure that it kinda resembled a monkeys skeleton. It does. Kinda.
Added a sneaky little rig point under where the tail is going to be! I wrapped a thin bit of wire around the washer to create the tail.
Then the needle felting began! (Oh and I made hands and feet!)
Inside the head I glued a bit of foam to the wire to fill it up a bit. I decided to go with a light blue colour for the face/belly. Gives it more of a cartoony sort of look, rather than a realistic monkey.
To make the ears I just stabbed a little ball of brown wool repeatedly, and then stabbed teeny bits of blue wool inside until I released all of my anger, I mean until the blue wool was felted into the brown...
Awww look at him with his ears! ^_^
I attempted to needle-felt the fingers, but it was so time consuming, and just looked a bit messy I ended up sewing felt around the wire instead. Looks much neater. :}
Finished monkey, hanging from my lamp. ^_^
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