Delivery #2...
Remember back when I was working on making Penny Rugs and felted wool phone pouches... well, I've decided that I truly enjoy working with these materials. I began doing on research online looking for a place to buy wool felt and the needed supplies. I found a neat site called Prairie Point Junction where you can buy felt, embroidery floss, and patterns for all sorts of different projects.
Around the time I found this site my family pulled names for our annual Christmas exchange... I picked out my Aunt Nancy's name and knew immediately that I wanted to make her something. I looked around the website for an idea and found a pattern that didn't look too complicated, but was still cute and fun. I am not quite sure what you call it... it's not a table runner, but something to put in the center of a table. It took me about a week to follow all the steps. Soaking and drying the wool, ironing, copying the pattern onto freezer paper, cutting, assembling, and finally sewing. It is a nice project
for the evenings, especially when it is cold outside.
I am excited about how it turned out. I learned a bunch of new techniques for how to make certain kinds of stitches. I found many helpful tutorials on "You Tube" when I got stuck and needed some help. I have already returned to the site looking for a new projects. You'll have to check back for future reveals.
Here it is...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Phone Pouch
While on vacation this summer Erika and I escaped for a couple of hours and got lost in a favorite store in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire called Apple Hill.
While we were there I found these...
They are little pouches for a phone. I fell in love with them immediately... but when I looked at the price tag I couldn't justify spending the money. I took a picture and was determined to go home and make my own.
Well.. it turns out it was not as easy as the picture make them out to be... but like I said I was determined. What I liked about this project was even though I am not great at sewing I could stitch it together by hand and make it work... But at the same time because I don't have a clue how to really sew, I wasn't able to figure out how to make the fabric lining. And.... the sewing helpline I use wasn't available... so I decided to proceed without the lining, saving me a lot of time and frustration.
Here's mine...
The wool came from some sweaters I had felted back in February to make these hearts. The sweaters were a nice shade of "Scarlet" and "Gray"... so I ended up with an Ohio State color combination... Go Bucks!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day
I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Your Home Based Mom, few weeks ago and I found a great tutorial for felting sweaters and creating cute hearts. I decided I would try my hand at "felting". It took me two tries to purposefully shrink three wool sweaters I had been storing in a box in my basement. I followed most of the blog instructions. I decided I would hand stitch the hearts together. I don't have a good track record with my sewing machine. Maybe next time! Here are my finished products.
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