Make with me: Spun cotton chickens 🐓 | how to create an antique-style hen from cotton | art tutorial 

I absolutely loved everything about this tutorial...especially your sense of humor and the poetry tangent!! I'm feeling so inspired to make my own flock of chickens (and coop) to go along with my dollhouse! I might write a poem about it too...Thank you!

They turned out great folk art chickens. I love them!

I lost my moms 2 years ago. She raised Arabian Horses, Hogs, Chickens... She has a beautiful white chicken I took a wonderful picture of, framed and hung in my kitchen. I named her Heaney Penney. Watching you create has brought mom to me once again. She would have lived your videos. I will attempt to make a chick called Heaney Penney. Wish me luck. Barb in Oklahoma.

❤ These are SO beautifully made! You are totally amazing in what you make!

These are beautiful in such a primitive style. You are such a sweet spirit, and the Lord knows how valuable you are in today's world. You have an amazing teaching method that works for rich or poor families to include and encourage doing it with inexpensive & alternative mediums that all work. I rather enjoyed you getting off on a tangent. I would rather learn & listen when you continue working so we can see how it's done. Rather that, then to act silly just to fill up time. VERY ENJOYABLE!! ps I loved that you have a personal relationship with each and every hen...even if you do have favorites. My first time here, so I hope you are still doing your crafts.

I love how you think out of the box, using what you have. That is what I call creative. Thank you for sharing this.👌💯

You’re brilliant, lovely and very generous in teaching us these beautiful pieces of art! Thank you so much❤❤❤

In the wet and cold winter months I use a homemade drying oven. I take a cardboard shipping box (like something from Amazon). Cut off the flaps on the top of the box. You need a cooling rack ( like you would use for baking) that is slightly larger than the box. Turn the box with the open top down sitting on the cooling rack. Cut a hole from the closed end of the box that is just large enough for your blow dryer. I set the items I want to dry - spun cooptton, air dry clay, etc. - on the rack, set the box over the items and put your blow dryer in the hole and turn it on to high. The cooling rack holds your items up off the table and allows the hot air to calculate around and under the items you are drying. Works really well. I always flip my air dry clay items over several times to keep them flat

OMG...I came across this video by accident and just love these little birds...and I am now looking at all your tiny animals! so so cute! we are moving soon, so I will have months without my full craft studio set up until we find a new house, so this project will be so perfect to do with just scraps and so much free time! Plus, we had to rehome all our chickens and rabbits, so I will try and shape/color them to look like my girls and boys...I miss them already. Lisa from Everton, AR and soon to be Lisa from Olsztyn, Poland LOL

I absolutely love these little chickens❤I have enjoyed watching this tutorial and your voice is so sweet. I am so excited to learn a new craft. Thank you🥰

Thank you so much for making this tutorial! I want to make some little dogs but i think i can figure it out from watching this video ✌️

So cute!!!

What a sweet tutorial ❤ Thanks for sharing the how -to. I can't wait to try. (The cat purr was the cherry on top)

A well-done, informative, and inspiring video. I appreciated you thinking out loud through the creative process when you brought up poetry. A creative mind sees things from a variety of perspectives and the more mediums you use the more you see cross-overs to use with other mediums. What a sweetheart Pumpkin is. Keep up your good work of creating and sharing. ❤️

Thank you so much for your generous sharing....these chickens are so wonderful, and I am excited about making some. We all need something to look forward to these days. xxoo

I love the way you are using materials you have on hand. It is so refreshing! I Love that you are experimenting, there are always so many to approach a project and you never have to succumb to a "right way." I like that you are letting us in on your creative process.

Thanks! You’ve inspired me to try some hens.

I so enjoyed watching your process and love the way all of your hens turned out. So cute. Thank you!

Such a beautiful project. Very good tutorial! Thank you so much. I’m definitely going to make some animals and maybe some people! ❤️❤️❤️

Rosanna, your hen collection is AMAZING! Just love each one! Viewing 3 years later - haha

Such delightful hens❣️ Your personality shone through each step of the way. Very nicely demonstrated. 👍🙂

Very lovely’s 🐓!

I love your videos. They are calm and creative. Your creations are adorable and so sweet. You make me want to try to make whatever you're making at the time. I know you say the camera makes you nervous, but you don't seem like it. You are doing great! Just keep doing what you're doing, it is all fun to watch, calming after a stressful day, inspirational, and you make me feel I can achieve it too. Your simple supplies, I think it's wonderful that you try to use everything, especially your chocolate foil wrappers. A girl after my own heart, chocolate makes everything better🩵. You are doing a great job and I think you'll find it gets easier to talk to the camera as the time goes on and you realize that you're talking to people that like you and like what you're sharing. If someone is not interested they can move on, so the only people left watching are those of us that want to spend time with you. So think of your viewers as friends and that may help. I'm very happy I found you. I'll be watching and looking forward to seeing your next video. 👍💚

I was looking at pictures from another maker of spun cotton figurines (Halloween) on Insta and I got curious as to how it’s done and came across you and your charming little chickens. 🐓 I liked your video and voiceover very much! Thank you for sharing!

I just started watching you make mice!❤ Now the chickens popped up and I am more inspired to try making some. Felted a bit, made a hat. Sew a bit. Beadwork and journals. So love crafting!❤ My daughter has chickens, etc. AND she's a beautician with her own salon called "The Coop"!❤😂 she has it all themed out with pics of her chickens and more. It looks amazing 👏 So....I am thinking of making her a little chicken flock ! 🎉 You are very talented. Hope I can do justice in my attempt to make a few of these cuties for her. Thanks for inspiring me 😅😊

This chickens are so beautiful 😍, I love them! Thank you for teaching

Love that your sharing your talent such beautiful work so cute

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Thank you Rosanna - beautiful hens xxx

really beautifully made and your attention to detail and the individual character you manage to get into each hen makes them little works of art ❤

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omgosh the animal with the wings is precious 😭😍

Thanks for sharing, I can’t wait to make some. By the way, I love the purring kitty. Pumpkin sounded very content.

Love watching and listening to you. Your voice is calming😉 ready for you to make more!

Awesome I love this!

Very beautiful! Thank you!!

So cute!

J'adore ❤️

Grazie x i tuoi video! Ed il relax che trasmetti!

Какие чудесные работы у вас!😊

Precioso!!

They are beautiful. I love yout tutorial

This is fabulous, such a great tutorial. Thank you 😊

Thank you so much! I enjoyed this very much. I am going to try making these, could end up in a hot mess but you are very inspiring! ❤

Thank you *so* *so* *so* much for uploading these videos, they have inspired me so much! ❤😻

Beautiful ⚜️

Wonderful

Fabulous tutorial, you are very generous in sharing your expertise and a joy to watch❤️

Спасибо вам за идею

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Wow I think you are very smart and very talented. I’m def going to try this , I think for me making the form will be the challenge. I’ll try tho. Thank you for such a great tutorial! How do you get the wire for the hangers to stick in the little hole?

I really enjoyed your tutorial. You are so warm. Thank you. I learned a lot. I wanted to tell you that I have a cheap hair dryer that gets too hot for my hair but is perfect for drying spun cotton. :)

I would be happy to pay for an online tutorial, I love these free ones, but do understand that you need to live. Have you thought about using ruzuku or similar. I would love one on making spun cotton donkies. I only found you last week and I think you are amazing and bring so much joy. Thank you xxx

I just found you and love seeing your hens. I have animals too as well as chickens and I love them. Thank you for sharing your process. I am going to make some. Subscribed and love it from New Zealand

Painting for 45 years would love to send you some art supples.

I love those and I have 3 in the make at the moment ! Where did you get your mica flakes ? Such a wonderful touch !

Thank you for this great tutorial. I'm obsessed with these little hens! As a needle felter myself, I would love to know what you used to make. Something magical?

Hi. Great tutorial. I love the chickens. I have made a couple. Did you also make the flying Donkey at the start?

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Near the end of this I heard a cat purring but sounded like mine was close and I started looking around … then it came to me, Pumpkin!

Could you do this with wool roving as well as cotton? I have a huge supply of that

Is it possible to use wool like needle felting wool to create this wonderful sculptures?

I really enjoy watching you create. I’ve been dabbling in spun cotton making for 3 days now. I’m perplexed on how finish the work. What is the process for giving the finished work a light wash of color . I’m not having any luck. Hoping you might address this. Again enjoy your work. R

This looks like an affordable craft. When you poke holes in chickens for hangers, is the project dry? Do you glue wire in? Maybe I missed this.

I wish that I could see the small things you're making a little closer. Other wise you videos are very informative ☺️

What kind of Mica Flakes do you use? There are so many different kinds. Do you remember the brand?

So.wjere do u get sheets of.cotton . Cotton.balls ive seen Not that im gonna.make them with my age and eye sight Just.curious for others

Do you have a website or Etsy shop?

Very nice 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️

It was sooooo boaring and long video with slow progress.