| 05/14/2013: | Another major work – a life-sized (or perhaps a bit more than life-sized) White-fronted Amazon Parrot – added to the Gallery. Working bigger, they just don’t get done so quickly.... |
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| 04/17/2013: | Added a new photo essay, this one detailing the construction of Butch: see New Ivory-billed Woodpecker (also linked from In the Workshop). |
| 04/15/2013: | Added a long-term dream – a life-sized baby Ivory-billed Woodpecker – to the Gallery. |
| 03/22/2013: | Posted a new litter of mice to the Gallery. |
| 01/28/2013: | Emerged from a truly dreadful cold to post another bunny-furred bunny to the Gallery. |
| 01/09/2013: | Added a mallard duckling to the Gallery. |
| 01/07/2013: | Posted pics of the extensively rebuilt Sylvester the Magneticat to the Gallery. (He got tired of people asking whether he was a skunk....) |
| 12/30/2012: | Added a white rabbit to the Gallery. Later: Put up a pic of the sugar gliders with their newly acquired humans.... |
| 12/20/2012: | Added www.salfelt.com as an alternate URL for the Salamander Feltworks site. And hilary@salfelt.com works as an e-mail address, too – no more writing too many letters in too little space for moi! |
| 12/18/2012: | Added a pair of only somewhat imaginary Baby Duckysauruses to the Gallery. |
| 12/09/2012: | Posted the season’ crowning achievement, a magnetronic Sandpiper to the Gallery. |
| 12/06/2012: | Added a slightly oversized pair of Cedar Waxwings to the Gallery. |
| 11/27/2012: | Added another big boy – a Bald Eagle – to the Gallery. |
| 11/26/2012: | Added a pair of Kingfishers to the Gallery. |
| 11/07/2012: | Posted another red frog to the Gallery. |
| 10/30/2012: | Added the latest batch of creatures, a trio of sugar gliders to the Gallery. |
| 10/12/2012: | Posted pics of the cougar cub begun at Steamstock to the Gallery. |
| 10/06/2012: | Posted a pic of the wolf cub’s new person – and enlarged the rest of her pics in the Gallery. |
| 10/04/2012: | Revisited the ornament collection to add some new steampunk models, plus a few of the regular cats and frogs and whatnot. LATER: Added yet another litter of mice to the Gallery. |
| 09/25/2012: | Added another chipmunk – a necklace this time – to the Gallery. |
| 09/21/2012: | Posted the latest cat to the Gallery. |
| 09/17/2012: | Added a yellow-eyed wolf cub to the Gallery. LATER: Posted pics of two newly costumed steampunk dragons to their page. |
| 09/11/2012: | Added another tree frog to the Gallery. |
| 09/10/2012: | Added a real Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel to the Gallery. |
| 09/07/2012: | Added another pin-backed Chipmunk to the Gallery. |
| 09/05/2012: | Posted new pix of Chipmunk 10, who now has a new face courtesy of the Salamander’s continuing education. |
| 08/29/2012: | Added a dachshund, to the Gallery – revealing some glitches to the new site coding (well on their way to being fixed as of 8/30). |
| 08/26/2012: | Big news: Rebuilt the Gallery itself so you can see just the kind of creature that interests you most. The historical record is still there too, of course, so you can also see everyone in the order of creation. |
| 08/22/2012: | Added the third creature from the summer’s train trip: Sylvester the Magneticat, the first to require two magnet sets, to the Gallery. |
| 08/21/2012: | Added two of the creatures from the summer’s train trip – a magnet-based chipmunk and a green lizard necklace – to the Gallery. |
| 08/01/2012: | Finished a young tuxedo cat and added her to the Gallery. |
| 07/30/2012: | Added yet another litter of mice to the Gallery, half on the traditional pins and the other half on magnets. |
| 07/22/2012: | Posted pics of the first magnetic froggie – a Strawberry Poison Dart Frog – to the gallery. |
| 07/20/2012: | Added the latest major project – Centaur Bill – to the gallery, including three pictures of the work in progress. |
| 07/15/2012: | Completed yet another new chipmunk – they’re almost impossible to keep around the house – and added him to the gallery. |
| 07/09/2012: | Posted pictures of a new discovery – Stegosaurus fibula (a dinosaur small enough to wear on a hat) – to the gallery. |
| 07/07/2012: | Added the next litter of mice, all with built-in magnets and keeper buttons, to the Gallery. (One looks remarkably like a baby rat – but odd things happen....) |
| 06/21/2012: | Added the other creature started at the SF Free Folk Festival, a wooly gray dog to the Gallery. |
| 06/20/2012: | Unveiled the latest technical achievement – Miss Magnet Mouse, complete with no-pins fastener – in the Gallery. |
| 06/14/2012: | Added a new hamster to the Gallery. |
| 06/10/2012: | Added a working pic of the hat squirrel – on a hat – to the Gallery. |
| 06/07/2012: | Added a another cat hat brooch – a female this time – to the Gallery. ALSO: Replaced pictures of the very first lizard with some in better focus. (Not that a truly sharply focused look is possible, given that what’s really out of focus is the wool....) |
| 06/03/2012: | Added a cat hat brooch to the Gallery. |
| 05/29/2012: | Added another squirrel hat brooch – a red-tailed black one this time – to the Gallery. |
| 05/25/2012: | Finished the black otter hat brooch from a recent trip, and added pics to the Gallery. |
| 05/24/2012: | Added a portrait of a lounging cat designed for an Asian doll to the Gallery. |
| 05/21/2012: | Posted at-home pix for the boxer family, the vixen, and the Clown Tree Frog to the Gallery. |
| 05/19/2012: | Added another little cat to the Gallery. |
| 05/05/2012: | Finished another travel-kit special, a chipmunk again, and added the pics to the Gallery. |
| 04/30/2012: | Finished a gray tomcat after three sessions in the traveling kit, and added the pics to the Gallery. |
| 04/27/2012: | Turned the singleton Least Weasel into a pair, with pics of both in the Gallery. |
| 04/22/2012: | Added a life-sized Least Weasel to the Gallery, with a set of pics replaced on the 27th. |
| 04/14/2012: | Posted lots of pics of the newest creature, a foot-long Beluga Whale, to the Gallery. |
| 04/10/2012: | Added the latest and most realistic California ground squirrel yet to the Gallery. |
| 04/09/2012: | Posted a snapshot of Terezz the cat – lurking by the sales cage – to the Gallery. |
| 04/05/2012: | Added another baby squirrel to the Gallery. |
| 04/03/2012: | Brand new! A photo essay of the construction of Draco Magnus: see Birth of a Dragon (also linked from In the Workshop). |
| 04/01/2012: | Added three new creatures to the Gallery: a Red-eyed Tree Frog that was almost finished a week ago, a new chipmunk that had been hanging fire in the traveling kit since February, and a Short-tailed Shrew, something not tried before. |
| 03/31/2012: | Added a portrait of the dog fox at home to the Gallery. |
| 03/22/2012: | Added the tenth litter of mice to the Gallery. |
| 03/11/2012: | Added a brooch-sized Siamese cat to the Gallery. |
| 03/09/2012: | Added another of the nifty finger froggies to the Gallery. |
| 03/03/2012: | Added a new squirrel to the Gallery: neat and petit and designed for riding on a hat. |
| 03/01/2012: | Added a honey badger – a creature completely new to the Salamander – to the Gallery. |
| 02/14/2012: | Added Draco Magnus – the biggest dragon to date – to the Gallery. |
| 02/07/2012: | Added a tiny otter – designed as a hat brooch – to the Gallery. |
| 02/03/2012: | Revised the red holiday frog to highlight his eyes with dark eye-liner, and added the new portrait to the Gallery. |
| 01/30/2012: | Succumbed to second thoughts and revised the blue wyvern, replacing most of the Gallery pics. |
| 01/29/2012: | Added another dragon – a blue wyvern – to the Gallery. |
| 01/26/2012: | Posted 13 pics of a whole new dimension in felted fancy: the Hexapod Wasp Darter, a wearable action figure, to the Gallery. |
| 01/19/2012: | Posted pics of three more baby dragons – hatchlings belonging to Sparkithrax, the mascot of DunDraCon – to the Gallery. |
| 01/11/2012: | Posted pics of three baby dragons – the first of a group intended for DunDraCon – to the Gallery. LATER: Updated the page for the worm to include the name bestowed after a composters’ contest. |
| 01/03/2012: | Added two more tree frogs to the Gallery. |
| 12/26/2011: | Added the latest equine adventure to the Gallery. |
| 12/23/2011: | Posted pics of a new chipmunk – mostly built on the 22nd, en route to see a grand-niece in the Nutcracker – to the Gallery. |
| 12/20/2011: | Added a new mare to the Gallery. |
| 12/19/2011: | One of the mice in Litter 9 demanded a new coat, and emerged wearing a fox suit.... |
| 12/14/2011: | Added another kid toy – a moderately fantastic turtle – to the Gallery, along with pictures of the engineering that makes it possible to get him to stick his neck (and legs) out and push them in. |
| 12/12/2011: | Added another froggie to the Gallery. |
| 12/09/2011: | Added the first of a whole new concept – a wool ball shaped like a drowsy raccoon – to the Gallery. |
| 12/06/2011: | Added a clown tree frog to the Gallery. |
| 12/02/2011: | Added a baby squirrel to the Gallery. |
| 11/29/2011: | A busy day! Added a new litter of mice to the Gallery, plus new batches of Book Beasties and ornaments. All part of getting ready for the December Oakland Art Murmur. |
| 11/26/2011: | Added the latest engineering project, a free-swimming platypus to the Gallery, along with a couple of pictures of its innards. |
| 11/15/2011: | Added a tiny dog fox to the Gallery. |
| 11/13/2011: | Added a giraffe – a year in the planning – to the Gallery. |
| 11/11/2011: | Added another baby boxer to the Gallery. |
| 11/04/2011: | Went through the Gallery and edited each creature’s main page to show how you can go about adopting it – or commissioning a cousin for yourself if it already has a home. |
| 11/01/2011: | Added a young chocolate poodle to the Gallery. |
| 10/29/2011: | Replaced most of the pictures for the fifth chipmunk yet again, without the original scowl. (But there's one shot to show how she started out.) |
| 10/23/2011: | Put up a pic of the next dress mouse – and a cute little devil he is, too. |
| 10/19/2011: | Added a new frog to the Gallery – the first with proper toes. |
| 10/15/2011: | Added the Tennessee Stud to the Gallery, along with a couple of construction pix. |
| 10/04/2011: | Added another salamander necklace to the Gallery, in time to have at least one salamander to show at the next sales event (at the Oakland Art Murmur this Friday). |
| 10/02/2011: | Added a vixen to the Gallery. |
| 09/26/2011: | Added an owlet to the Gallery, along with some photos of the work in progress. |
| 09/13/2011: | Added another gerbil to the Gallery. This one has to be about the longest work-in-progress; she was started on the train home from Chicago in July, then set aside for lack of the right wool to finish. |
| 09/10/2011: | Modifications to the Gray Mare (#42) turned her into what is essentially a new creature, added to the Gallery as #106. |
| 09/05/2011: | Added the first batch of holiday ornaments to the Gallery. |
| 09/01/2011: | Added a chameleon to the Gallery. |
| 08/31/2011: | Added two pictures of the Super-Worm – at work and at play – to the Gallery. |
| 08/28/2011: | Added a figure of Pan to the Gallery. |
| 08/19/2011: | Added yet another litter of mice to the Gallery – all pale this time, as the lightest-colored mice seem to have the easiest time finding homes. |
| 08/17/2011: | Posted an at-home picture of the Kakapo – now named “Charlie” – to the Gallery. |
| 08/08/2011: | Added the Super-Worm to the Gallery. |
| 07/30/2011: | Added Creature #100, a googly-eyed frog, to the Gallery. |
| 07/29/2011: | Added the second train creation, a cream-colored gerbil, to the Gallery. LATER: Put up a pic of the latest dress mouse, a fine lady this time. |
| 07/28/2011: | Just home from a train vacation around North America, I gave the fifth chipmunk a tail haircut and ear job and replaced the pictures in the Gallery. LATER: Finised a golden ground squirrel (like a chipmunk with a plain face), mostly done on the train, and added him to the gallery. |
| 07/05/2011: | Added a tiny furry cat to the Gallery. |
| 07/01/2011: | Added a little sketch of a fox to the Gallery. |
| 06/28/2011: | Added the froggie built at the SF Free Folk Festival to the Gallery. |
| 06/26/2011: | Added a photo of one of the new mice peering out of the sales cage. |
| 06/24/2011: | Added another litter of mice to the Gallery. LATER: Added a new chipmunk to the Gallery. |
| 06/18/2011: | Added a kakapo (a flightless New Zealand parrot, about half life-size) to the Gallery. |
| 06/03/2011: | Added another chipmunk to the Gallery. |
| 05/11/2011: | Added a sixth litter of mice to the Gallery – along with a lone mousely experiment with an armature of heavy aluminum wire instead of pipe cleaners. LATER: Posted a pic of another dressed-up mouse to the fifth litter. |
| 05/03/2011: | Added a satyr to the Gallery – first venture with a creature possessing human hands and face. |
| 04/29/2011: | Waiting overnight did no good for the out-of-order pics problem this time, so I sent a “SQL-ing for Help” message to my webmaster, who fixed the code at once. The revised third eyas now has a full suite of pictures, with captions that follow the intended sequence. |
| 04/28/2011: | Started replacing the pics for the third eyas yet again; watching this year’s nestlings mature revealed too many deficiencies in even the corrected version posted April 4, so it wound up almost completely rebuilt. But the pics can’t be replaced all at once, because they wind up out of order until the site has time to refresh itself. |
| 04/10/2011: | Added a running puppy to the Gallery. LATER: Put up an at-home pic of the Boxer Family, with their real-world model. |
| 04/07/2011: | Added the Flower Kitty to the Gallery. |
| 04/05/2011: | Added a Frisian stallion to the Gallery. |
| 04/04/2011: | Replaced the pics for another eyas, who’d been added to the Gallery on the 3rd. This one is old enough to band – and strong enough to stand up on his own two legs. |
| 03/18/2011: | Added E-Chup, a new eyas (baby falcon) to the Gallery. |
| 03/06/2011: | Added Rosanewt to the Gallery. |
| 02/17/2011: | Posted a new picture of the second Chipmunk, out for a ride with her person. |
| 02/16/2011: | Added an at-home picture for the Abyssinian Cat – keeping watch, like so many of her fellows, over her person’s computer. |
| 02/14/2011: | Added another Chipmunk to the Gallery. |
| 02/05/2011: | Added the Hexapod Lizard to the Gallery. |
| 01/29/2011: | Posted a pic of the white mouse from Litter 5, dressed for an evening on the town. A glorious destiny awaits him.... |
| 01/28/2011: | Added the Sable Ferret to the Gallery. |
| 01/20/2011: | Added Building the Lindsay Raccoon to the site. Find out what was happening in the two weeks she took to build! |
| 01/19/2011: | Added the Lindsay Raccoon Kit to the Gallery. Work started January 5; she's the biggest and in some ways the most complex project to date. |
| 01/03/2011: | Added the Pine Marten to the Gallery. |
| 12/29/2010: | Added an at-home image for the Polar Bear. LATER: Added another Chipmunk—livelier than ever—to the Gallery. |
| 12/23/2010: | Added an at-home image for Get-Outta-My-Way Jack. LATER: Added Sparkithrax the Dragon to the Gallery, happily combining two of the Salamander’s lives. |
| 12/15/2010: | Added the Ring-tailed Cat to the Gallery. |
| 12/13/2010: | Added the latest Frog to the Gallery. |
| 12/08/2010: | Added the Guanaco to the Gallery. |
| 12/05/2010: | Added an at-home (well, at-work) image for the Wyvern. |
| 11/28/2010: | Added the Pride of Lions to the Galllery — a second experiment in building a set at the same time, so they interact with each other and make sense as a group as well as one by one. |
| 11/26/2010: | The second day of the second year of my felting life.... Another Thanksgiving with nephew and family allowed me to get pictures of the first pouches I made (never turned in to the school); see them at “Meet the Salamander.” I also collected an at-home image for the first Teen Unicorn, who happens to stand beside one of the early ceramic pieces. |
| 11/23/2010: | A busy day! Added the Ground Squirrel — the latest Amtrak special — plus an at-home image for Tilly the Chihuahua. Also adjusted “In the Workshop” to show the portable felting bench actually in use on the train. |
| 11/11/2010: | Added the Boxer Family to the site — three figures built together, so they play together. |
| 11/03/2010: | Updated Making Murphy with extra notes that pop up on mouseover. |
| 11/02/2010: | Added the fifth Mouse Litter to the site, plus two more images to the Yale’s page. |
| 10/28/2010: | Added Puff (an homage to the Magic Dragon) to the site. Meanwhile, the expanded back stories are up through #37 in the Gallery. |
| 10/25/2010: | Expanded the back stories on the first ten creatures in the Gallery. |
| 10/21/2010: | Added Murphy Kitten to the site, and put up a brand-new feature: Making Murphy, a photo-essay on the construction process. |
| 10/20/2010: | Replaced the Gallery shot and main image of the Shoulder Hamster, who’d been suffering from a serious case of lack-of-cute around the nose and teeth. The Salamander hates to go back to anyone who’s been declared finished, but made an exception this time. |
| 10/19/2010: | What’s new is this What’s New page — watch it for news of new features on the site, new creatures in the Gallery, and new pictures of the places creatures get into when they leave the Salamander's paws.... * A lot of nifty pictures have come in in the last couple of weeks, too: the Purple Bear, the Blue Frog, the Friendly Bear, and the third and fourth litters of mice, for starters. * Ancient history: The Salamander Feltworks site went live on July 26, 2010, with Gallery entries through #46, the Salamander itself. The collection actually ran through #52, the Lioness, at that point, but an impending cross-country train trip got in the way of the rest of the job. (That was before Roderick finished the nifty do-it-yourself upload forms the site offers these days....) |