Award winning artist Meredith Edwards keeps on the cutting edge with designs and 
creative ideas brought to life by her dolls!

Now featuring a newly designed line of  "collector animals". Their popularity is quickly spreading from coast to coast!

     For those that don't know, needle-felting needles are very sharp and have barbs cut into the side of the shaft to snag the wool fibers as you jab the needle through the loose wool. After THOUSANDS of jabs, the loose wool fibers get matted together into a rather dense wad of solid felt! There is actually quite a bit of control over the shape of the final wad, separate pieces are added (like nose, upper and lower lips, eyelids, etc) .

     The glass eyes I am using are made to my specifications by a glass artist here in Albuquerque. I had these eyes made for me last year so I could create my own adaptation of an early 1900's EINCO googly-eyed monkey that I got on Ebay. The eyes have now gone on to kitties, teddies, other
 monkeys, and one dog, with more to come, guaranteed!!!

    

The little guy with the full body was my first experimental head. In his entirety including body he took a day - I started him at noon on a Wednesday and finished him in time to take to the Fiber Arts Festival Thursday the 26th of May for show and tell. He got RAVE reviews, and several people tried to kidnap him...(LADIES, PLEASE!!!) At the Fiber Arts show I bought a wooden needle holder that will hold FIVE felting needles so I can stab myself FIVE TIMES AT ONCE!!! Actually (and luckily) I have pretty good aim and have avoided staining wool fibers with my DNA.