I saw this seahorse in Flickr. It was described as demure and I wondered what it meant. As usual, too lazy to grab a dictionary and besides I recall words better when they are explained to me in person. I asked Snaulkter what it meant and this is how she describes it:'Demure means to be shy, timid, or reserved. I kind of get that feeling about this seahorse when I look at her... she seems a little more reserved than the others. ;) ' I think ErinLee is right...
I love her seahorses and I love the new word I learned today. :)
Materials you need: wool roving, glas and spoon, soap flakes, olive soap (not neccesary but I like to use it), bubblewrap foil.
Hold the end of the woolroving loosely in one hand and gently pull off a section with your other hand. Hold your four fingers against the pad of your palm and trapping the wool there. Put it horizontally on the bubblewrap. Lay it out in a little square overlapping each other. 
Put another thin layer of felt on the little square vertically. That way the fibers will be in the opposite direction to the fibres on the first layer. Repeat this until you have four thin layers of wool put onto each other. You can use different colors to have more variation. 
Put some soapflakes in a glas and pour hot water over it. 
Sprinkle with the spoon some of the soapy water over the felt square you layed out.
Push the soapy water gently in the wool roving and rub gently in circles.
Make three squares in total. Lay out the roving in different sizes so that you have three different size squares. You could cut out three different squares out of paper and put them underneath the bubblewrap so you can see through and lay out your wool on that. I do that with children sometimes and it works really well.
Rinse the felted material underneath running water and lay out to dry.
Fold the three squares together and sew them together at the back.
Sew the bead in the middle of the squares by going from the front to the back.
Sew the brooch pin at the back.
