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handmade from felted, repurposed wool sweaters. this soft toadstool stands about 4 1/4" tall and is 4" wide. it is lovingly sewn by both hand and machine and stuffed firm with 100% sheeps wool, and weighted with dried beans.
perfect for a woodland display, nature table or gentle play.
Felt mushroom and toadstool made using a free pattern and tutorial:
thelittlehousebythesea.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/toadstool...
blogged at thedottyone.blogspot.com
After the touristy stuff, I had to get out in the desert a bit. This little hike with my sister in the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument toadstool area near Page, Arizona turned out to be just the thing.... It was perfect -- only a couple of other people out there... I didn't have a map so I took a picture of the sign. Aren't digital cameras great!
I made this watching a double episode of The Bill. I was going to keep embellishing the stalk on and on, but I had to go and find all the images for my card, next pic, and that always takes an age! Plus, I am sooo behind in craft stuff I owe peeps, incl a couple on this stream ;-)
You get addicted to Brit shows when you're living in Oz, The Bill is HUGE here!!
This is a cute little hand-shaped art glass toadstool pendant.
From top to bottom the pendant measures about 15mm (21.5mm including the bail). The widest part of the cap is about 17.5mm in diameter.
White and red, topped with a sterling silver bail and decorative sterling washer, shaped like a toadstool, not much more to add, really! :)
The pendant is hung on a high quality sterling silver rolo chain.
Mushroom vs. toadstool
The relative sizes of the cap (pileus) and stalk (stipe) vary widely. Shown here is a species of Macrolepiota.
The terms "mushroom" and "toadstool" go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.
The term "toadstool" was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.[3]
The term "mushroom" and its variations may have been derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse). There may have been a direct connection to toads (in reference to poisonous properties) for toadstools. However, there is no clear-cut delineation between edible and poisonous fungi, so that a "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. The term "toadstool" is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms. The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.