make button felt tutorial

How To: Make a Big Felt Button

Needle felting is a technique where you felt together wool fibres using a special barbed needle. By sculpting the wool as you poke it, the possibilities of what can be made are endless.

Le petit lapin

Making fabric toys: rabit pattern

Making baby toys with felt

 

Sewing for baby

Advent calendar

Growing up I remember always loving putting up our advent calendar. It was green with a little snowy scene with little mice. It had 25 little pockets all lined up and my mom and I would fill it with little chocolates or candies of the Christmasy sort. It hung at the bottom of our stairs on a rustic real wood wall. I loved it. It still makes me smile. My mom still has it actually, and I hope it inherit it one day. But for now I'm making one for my kids. Not with the same image but I'm keeping with the design. I am so excited to share this tradition with kids.

Now this isn't a hard project but has a lot of steps so I'm breaking it up into two parts. One thing I hate about some tutorials (mine included) is that they seem to go on forever and I find myself just scrolling through not really reading and then I just take the idea a wing it. Well, I do that no matter what actually, which usually leads to fails that I have to start the project over! But this one so far is coming together amazing.

Shopping bag

Yesterday, I finally took some time to start - and finish - the project I had been working on in my mind for quite a while: a shopping bag. Not that we don't have any... We do have quite a bunch of them - re-usable shopping bags. Ugly ones, every single one of them. Polyester ones, most of them. With our "favorite" supermarkets' names on them

Woven Felt Pillow

This crafty project comes from the October 1968 issue of Pack o Fun magazine. The production quality of Pack o Fun is most definitely low-fi and that's its charm. Some of the projects in PoF are a bit goofy (macaroni mobiles, anyone?) and if you base your judgements on the diagrams and photographs that accompany the instructions, you'd never want to try any of it. But just as my attempts at making stuff from MSL come out flawed, the projects I make from Pack o Fun come out much, much better than expected.

Tsumami Kanzashi Flower adorable flowers

Tsumami Kanzashi Flower adorable flowers

Reindeer Pouch Pink reindeer :D

Fabric Yo-Yo's

Make apples from fabric

 

Make apples from fabric