Needle-Felted Mushroom Family
These red and white cap mushrooms look so cute and magical, they’ve captured the imaginations of thousands of authors and illustrators, crafters, and Waldorf families, not to mention the wacky game designers at Nintendo.
They are, in actuality, Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric or fly Amanita, and are poisonous and psychoactive. So if you see them growing, don’t eat them. Please avoid them. Take a picture, but leave them be. They belong to the fairies, gnomes, and other magical creatures of the forest, and not at all to human beings.
This little family of Mushroom People, the Amanitas, just wouldn’t stop clamoring in my head until they were made. They are needle-felted out of 100 percent wool roving and without any internal wire structure, so they are very soft and lovable. I expect they will come and visit our nature table in the autumn.
August 5, 2010 at 9:36 am
These are just about the cutest things ever.
August 6, 2010 at 4:39 am
i am SMITTEN with these. you are so smart..i’d love to learn how to make.xxx
August 7, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Thank you, NoNo.