Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

For this challenge , the theme was "wool". And I was at first at a TOTAL loss. I simply had no frigging clue as to what I was going to craft. My whole creativity went *poof* and flew out the window . I mean, there's just so much you can do with wool. Wool, as an animal fiber, is extremely versatile. But, for once, I didn't want to knit or crochet something. Maybe because that would have been... too easy?  Too simple? Perhaps? Oh, later on I had all these thoughts about making: a companion cube (tunisian crochet + felting) door stopper a chess board (knitting + felting) with felted chesspieces a brooch (again, felt), typically a sunflower or then sunflowers needle felted onto something decor on a wooden photo holder from IKEA turn a little IKEA-lion into a yellow dragon (again, needle felting...) something for jewelry, but felt or wool is not so nice against your skin, so... And somehow, I still couldn't come up with something smart/funny/nice to crea...

Fanttinauha! First time I saw felted "yarn" (fanttinauha in Finnish), I thought it would be super fun to try and use it for some small crafts-project. I had bought a meter each of red, light green, yellow and brown while shopping with Mom, and I had this "vision" of a rose and a sunflower brooch. Working free-hand with only a long needle and some yellow thread, I pieced together this sunflower brooch. Materials used were ~1 m yellow and 15 cm brown of the felted yarn. The metal-part of the brooch (the needle) I superglued into place. The brooch is about the size of my palm, and it weights hardly nothing, which is great. Front... ...and back.