Is it madness?

So I wanted to post more pictures last week of the puppies I've been making, but then with lj going down I wanted to wait. Now here they are! I'm in the process of making two more, one out of fabric (almost completed) and another one out of felt. I'm going to try to make the new felt one long haired by felting in wool. Not sure if that's going to work out though, but I thought it would be interesting to try. :3


Frankie playing on the floor with the pups.

( More puppy pictures! )

I am currently trying to make fleece puppies. I have the puppy made, and now I am supposed to put implant hair. However, I am not sure how I am supposed to implant the hair without making my puppy look like a sheep with a static problem. I used my brushes that I card with to straighten it, but it is kinky for one thing. In the pictures that I have (I have the book Fleece Dog) the implanted hair looks straight and wispy. I have kinky and thick. I know that they talk about using dog hair, but it's not supposed to be -necessary-, so I don't think it's dog hair in the picture. I suppose it could be a different type of wool, but it doesn't say that it is.

Any suggestions on how to give my puppy some normal looking implanted hair?

x-posted to feltingfiber

So there are some felting projects that I want to do with raw wool. I actually have more than 3 lbs of raw wool sitting in my living room that I want to use. I need to get a hand carder though to use on the wool. Now, I was all about getting them right away, but I am having some major issues locating them to buy. It's so annoying. x.x;;

I've discovered that they aren't very cheap, which kind of surprised me- but they only ones I've been able to locate have been on ebay, and there aren't many there... Anyone on my f-list have any thoughts?

Funny thing is my grandparents have some back in MI. Gramma has no way of looking for them of course (she currently moves from bed for only necessary things, she usually doesn't even use her wheelchair much), and grampa has problems remembering certain things since his stroke and he's the mobile one.
That and I saw their hand carders when I was about 4 years old. It actually could be younger than that, because Brandy was still alive at this time, and I think she died before I turned 4. I remember looking at them on the stairs near the landing, where they put things that they were going to bring upstairs. I brushed them together, and thought that while they looked like dog brushes they couldn't be because there wasn't a logical reason for there to be two of them and they didn't look like anything that would feel good on a dog.

Years later I see a hand carder and that brings back the memory to me, and answers my 3-4 year old self's question as to what that thing was for. However I never saw it again after that day so I'm sure my grandparents, who I've never seen use it, will have no idea where it is. And they have A LOT of stuff in storage at their place- even if I wasn't halfway across the country and had access to their stuff I wouldn't know where to even start looking for them. :P