Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:41:27 -0400
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Wow, Melissa!  Your puppets look great!  They must be pretty sturdy, too, if a four-year-old can actually play with one.  How long, on average, does it take you to create one of your puppets?

Brid in Toledo


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From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org on behalf of Joe and Melissa
Sent: Sat 5/20/2006 10:22 PM
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Subject: [Puptcrit] new to the list



hello, and Im glad to be here. I am a puppet maker, and think I may be using a very unique medium. I dont know a whole lot about puppet making, as others are constructed, I only know the medium I use. I raise sheep, and am a hand spinner. one skill often used by fiber artists is , needle felting. a small barbed needle is used to agitate and tightly felt wool. I carry that even further by sculpting the wool, into forms built around a puppet design.
I have made about 5 puppets as of tonight, and my 6th is almost finished. , I love to sculpt these guys, and would love to know if any of you have ever seen any other puppets made from this method. I hope I am not breaking any rules, but will attach a link to some photos of my puppets.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/srpntwyn/album?.dir=67cf&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

the puppets are 100% wool and are not painted. I color them , by adding already dyed wool .
I am not a preformer, but my 4 year old son has a T-Rex puppet I made for him, and he plays with it a lot ! I would be curious to learn what puppeteers are looking for in puppets... realism?  specific mediums? and much more.
I am glad to be here , and hope that you all can teach me a lot about puppets and puppet making ,
Thank you Melissa



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