Fish on Friday

Today my friend Deborah came round for lunch and a chat.  We are both crafty people (in the nicest possible sense of the word) and I showed her my Molly Makes magazines...

...now don't get me wrong, I like Molly Makes - I even have it sent out here, to France, on subscription!  But sometimes the projects are less than, well, adequately explained.  I showed Deborah my massive stash extensive collection of felting materials and we decided to make the fish (start small) in a recent issue of Mollie Makes.

Yes - that's it in the picture above - shown with the cute bear, which is also a needle-felting project.

It seemed as iff it would be fairly simple, but these were the instructions...

...which were not a lot of help.

However, Deborah stabbed along at her roving and made a commendable fish, sewing on a bead for its eye. 

I decided to have a go myself, although my attempts at needle felting have thus far been limited to stabbing a crochet flower onto a piece of felted jumper.  I have to tell you, reader, that I did not acquit myself terribly well.

I made a sort of sea worm at first, that repeated attempts to turn into a fish shape, following those masterful instructions, did not improve overmuch.  Eventually I  gave in and ended with a kind of siamese-fighting-angel fish.  At this point I resigned myself to the fact that needle felting, like sculpture in marble, is probably not my thing...