If you like sitting around in your pajamas stabbing things with needles, I highly recommend Felt as a medium of artistic expression. You may remember various needle-felting projects of yore*; more recently I have been doing embroidered felt, and specifically embroidered felt Christmas tree ornaments.
Here we have a Maid-a-Milking and a Drummer Drumming:
These delightful designs are from Larissa Holland, who has many other delighful designs as well, and very easy-to-follow tutorials. (Mine deviate from the patterns in a few ways, most notably using felt instead of wooden beads, and needle-felted faces instead of drawing.) I have also been making assorted birds and other freestyle shapes but have given them all away without taking pictures.
Normally, I would close this post by saying "I have a huge bin of felt! Come sit in my living room and stab things with needles with me!" but in these pandemic-ridden times I feel guilty even issuing completely empty invitations to a nearly-nonexistant virtual audience. Stay out of my living room! Maybe next year.
*The best needle-felted thing I have made so far was this pangolin, in 2016, which I seem not to have boasted about on the internet:
It turned out very nicely but was a little bit too much effort to be worth repeating.
