FURZIE

Suddenly feeling confident I opened a shop on Etsy, the internet craft sales website, and within a week had my first sale. That was in 2014, and sales have picked up, including commissions to make sculptures of real animals. My shop has been viewed by people all over the world, and my Furzie friends are now living in such diverse and exotic places as California and Berlin, New Mexico and Swindon... Bloodied (literally) but unbowed I persevered, and spent the next few months practicing, reading articles and watching You-Tube videos by women from the mid-west USA with monotone voices. Whilst not exactly a ‘Road to Damascus' moment, somewhere along the line the whole process suddenly clicked. I found that the animals were seemingly developing a character of their own accord, whilst I was just an accessory to the process... Sculpting life into models with wool and a little magic. Furzie offers needlefelting courses and commissions.

Primary location: Langport United Kingdom