Background

I thought I should get into the background of how Gregory, Einsle and the other characters, you will meet later, came to be.

(by the way I am listening to Zebra by Beach house 

and down to the well no more by Lead belly)

I first made Gregory for my son. This was 2008 or 9.... Lets see if I can find a picture.... OH I found one. I will put it up like this for now, but it is old and the colour is bad. hahaha. You can see my feet.

So that is him originally. 

(I'll post a pic of him now for contrast.)

I really liked him, and I thought I could sell them so I made more characters. At this time I didn't know what needle or wet felting was. I was making them out of fleece and felt, and stuffing them. I used a machine.

Fredrick

Adline.
I am now making a version of her that will be called Irene. She is Einsles partner. She will be part of Twirl, this weeks Illustration Friday.

There was another one, I can't remember his name at that time. He is now called Allarms and is very different from his original design. I will have to look for pictures.