Pipsqueaks - Itsy-Bitsy Felt Creations to Stitch & Love: 30+ Easy-to-Make Animals & Accessories Paperback – November 7, 2015

Do you love the look of needle-felting, but you're wary of the stab wounds that can result? Or maybe you want a more predictable outcome not subject to the vagaries of wool rovings? Sally Dixon offers up Pipsqeaks to satisfy your need to work with felt (in the form of sheeting) and thread.Among the 30 projects are juicy strawberry earrings, darling doggie pins, and oh those sweet little elephants shown on the cover. They are the reason I bought this book.I wish I could say every project is as adorably detailed as these elephants, but there's only one other figure that approaches the same cuteness caliber. That would be the mice, especially if you endow them with felt ice cream cones and Bolero jackets. The other projects are more flat and elemental, items that would appeal to a much younger crafter. The Happy Birthday Cakes would be great fun for practicing one's first stitches while learning how to embellish and add depth to felt figures.Instructions are fairly brief, yet adequate. The author was very intelligent (and kind) to include a photo for each project showing all the cut felt pieces so you can make sure you're not missing something. Helpful suggestions abound, most notably in the section on types of felt. Honest wool felt is a pleasure to work with, while felt that contains man made fibers can be intolerably icky to handle. As with most crafts, always buy the very best materials your budget allows.Your micro-elephant will thank you, and look much better for it

Has some cute felt animals to make. Directions are very good and most of the projects were easy.

I love this book sooo much! So easy to make these animals. They are adorable, great for gifts, or, in my case: making mini elephants and koalas in gum leaf pockets to fill all the nooks and crannies of my china cabinet.Great for the novice right up to the expert sewer. Buy one! Or two (for a friend). :-)

Nice book

The patterns are very cute. They look harder than they are to make. Very detailed. I have made most of the items in the book. Great way to use up little bits of felt.

What a great book! You don't need to be a fantastic sewer to make these cuties. Alter what you want and don't hesitate to use fabric glue.

Really good directions. Very easy to follow.

Not what I expected.

Es un librito muy genial, lleno de lindas ideas para adorables miniaturas.

Love this book and I have made the strawberry earrings and several of the mice as gifts. The instructions and pictures are simple to follow. I have other books that look similar but are much more complicated and put me off even starting but this is way better. All the projects are small too which I like.

So cute, I can't wait to make them all.

Made a few of these and they are lovely tiny collectibles (not toys). Quite fiddly to make the smaller ones, but lovely sweet & cute designs! Lovely book with great info and instructions.

very sweet book