Abandoned Tea Party -mice and insects In between the bees, bunnies and felted fox heads, I've been working on my 'Abandoned Tea Party' collection. The concept is that a tea party has been laid out which has, for various reasons, been abandoned (there's a back story to this which I'm still writing & which will be used to illustrate a bigger feature during my North Wales Helfa Gelf display in September) and little creatures and insects have moved in on the food. Mouse Tucking into Cake I've started with cakes and fruit first as I had some left over from a recent making spree and I find them the most pleasurable foods to crochet. I like to add in some needle felted details ie the strawberry & leaves, and find the mice and insects easier & more satisfying to needle felt than crochet as I have more control over the result! I'll be adding these to my Etsy shop and plan on encasing a few in bespoke box frames to give a ...