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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Heartfelt dogs.<\/p>\n<p>I’ve always been creative; my mum had me down as a Blue Peter presenter due to my ability to produce something out of nothing even when I was a kid. Those of you of my generation might remember the Blue Peter Book of Teddy Clothes with an extensive range of costumes you could make, including a pirate, a cowboy and a pilot\u2019s outfit; I made them all. Growing up, I was a little obsessed with puppets and stop frame animation; Hector\u2019s House, Pogles Wood, Noggin The Nog and Topo Gigio were all very real for me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve worked in the arts since graduating from Huddersfield University in 1984, in both the performing and visual arts fields. Paper became my thing for a while and I even went back to college to qualify as a Bookbinder but not until I found the splendid art of needle felting did I feel truly at home. Now I needle felt my own characters inspired by my dog Barney and his ability to change personality according to what he thinks it might get him.<\/p>\n<p>All dogs are individual and unique one-offs. They are needle felted from 100% wool with glass eyes. Their minute clothes are painstakingly made by hand, (even the tiny little knitted jumpers) and supplemented with carefully selected additions from the likes of Paul, Ken and Sindy dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Von Allen<\/p>\n<p>All enquiries via email to: dogs@vonallen.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2965\" src=\"http:\/\/vonallen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Von-Allen-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Von-Allen-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Von-Allen-1024x864.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Von-Allen-1536x1296.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Von-Allen-2048x1728.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Von-Allen-500x422.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartfelt dogs. I’ve always been creative; my mum had me down as a Blue Peter presenter due to my ability to produce something out of nothing even when I was a kid. Those of you of my generation might remember the Blue Peter Book of Teddy Clothes with an extensive range of costumes you could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vonallen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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