Needle Felted Mouse

I've been wanting to try needle felting properly for ages. I had a brief encounter with it at the V&A lates, but I wanted to learn to create lots of lovely little creature for Kit to play with. I bought some felt and some needles ages ago. I stupidly thought that you could just felt with those, but after several holes in my fingers realised that I did need a sponge thing too. So when I popped into hobbycraft the other day and they handed me a 25% off everything voucher, I ran to get myself a sponge so that I could start creating a zoo of animals.

I'm starting simple, so I made a mouse. A slightly oddly coloured mouse. Here is how I did it...