Lindsey Thomas's adorable needlefelt animals riding bicycles and wearing party hats

Working from her home studio, she pokes and stabs at wool with needles from industrial feltmaking machines. They have barbs which repeatedly catch the fibres as she stabs, enmeshing them into a sculpted three-dimensional form in a process which has come to be known as needle felting.

"Once the face is there with eyes to peer at me as I stab life into the creatures, I fall a little bit in love with them," she adds.

Lindsey graduated in Illustration from Middlesex University in 2012 where she experimented with mixed media. But it wasn't until a few years later that she discovered the "wonderful ability of wool" to transform her illustrated characters into 3D sculptures. "As a child, I was forever drawing animals and imagining what they would be like if they could peel themselves from the paper. Now I know!"

You can follow Lindsey Thomas on Instagram and Facebook to see her many works in progress. Or visit lindseythomas.co.uk.