First attempt

 

My first attempt at needle felting really didn't turn out too bad - even husband, always a stern critic, had to agree that it had character.

 Unfortnately, the combination of black fleece and a gloomy day doesn't do justice to my second effort.  I'm definitely hooked (- sorry about the pun), and will certainly be thinking up my own designs, but I may just make a couple more dogs, and perhaps a cat, and I'm sure I've got a pattern for a penguin, and a giraffe would be good...

There's just the small matter of these

 

waiting to be made into a baby gift.  And these

waiting to be made into various projects from these