Crafting in the Time of Corona V

I made a mixed media camping scenario for the wet felted playmat I made for my Chicago grandnephew. I painted two peg people and made their sleeping bags, tents, and rowboat from commercial felt. And I needlefelted the boat’s oars and the rocks for the fire pit (and added a bit of unfelted batting for the flames). I used some twigs to make a fishing pole with string and the sticks for roasting some needlefelted marshmallows. Those are mostly for show though since I don’t imagine they’ll last long and the peg people can’t even hold them!

Since my grandnephew has the play mat already and I’m not sure when these will be gifted, I set the scene up on the back of a felted mat (the same color as the river on the playmat) and a piece of green felt (a much darker green than the meadow on the playmat) so I could appreciate the results. It was fun to take a break from cross stitch but it was actually a bit more challenging than I expected it would be. At first I tried making a tent and a boat that would fit both people but I thought they were too big (it was hard to estimate the dimensions of the playmat). Also I had sewed them using blanket stitches and it just didn’t look right. So I scrapped those and started over again cutting everything smaller and using a running stitch. Now the peg people each get their own tents and they can take turns using the rowboat.