Every dark cloud has a silver (felt) lining
A couple of years ago, a friend asked me to make a space-themed felt mobile for her baby boy’s bedroom. She and her little boy both loved it, which inspired me to create mobiles for other friends’ kids, too. Then a certain global health crisis shut down the entertainment industry, putting my career as stage manager and costume designer on hold indefini
tely. During this uncertain time, another friend showed the mobile I had made for her child to an online shop owner, who liked it so much that she commissioned six mobiles from me. And so, a new door opened and Wonderfelt was born. Pretty soon, I went from buying single blocks of felt to needing metres and metres of the stuff! While the rest of the locked-down world was baking banana bread and watching all of Netflix, I taught myself how to use Illustrator to design creatures and shapes for my mobiles. I also spent some time researching other types of felt-based products that kids might love and added fun and stimulating activity books to my repertoire. The first of these books were given to my boyfriend’s nephew, and it was a hit! It is such a joy to see little faces light up with wonder because of something I created, and I can’t wait to share this wonder with you and your little ones.
