Crafts

A quick update on recent crafts.

Bags for Mum

Coen's quilt - Back and Front.

Elephants all finished - now to make the mobile

Fabric for the back of Kaisha's quilt

Close up

Christmas Craft

Christmas Candy - caramel, chocolate & candy canes

Brownies in a Jar

Cushions embellished with felt and a knitting bag

Clutch/wallet

Inside

Bunny

Meet Bunny, she likes to hop hop hop according to Kaisha.



She is made from felt(polyester), wool(acrylic) and I used an old pair of stockings to stuff her - hence the lumpy look. She only took a few hours to make. She is blanket stitched around the edges.

I want to make more for gifts but use natural materials, wool felt and bamboo or wool stuffing.
Will let you know how it goes.

Slippers

The minute the air gets a bit nippy I want to knit. All through summer I can't stand the thought of knitting but the minute it gets cold my fingers start to itch. Weird I know. So since it has been a bit chilly here lately I have been knitting. I'm not a very good knitter mainly cause I can't be bothered counting stiches and increasing/decreasing etc. Up until now I have only knitted straight things such as scarves (and a blanket that is wider at one end than the other due to my erratic tension but we won't dwell on that). Anyway I wanted to get/make something for Anna and Geoff as a going away present so decided to knit them some of grandma's slippers. Once Kaisha saw me doing them she wanted some like Nana's and now I am on to doing some for Nick.
Here is a really bad photo of Kaisha and Nana wearing their slippers.


I've also been making more felt hair clips. I'm slightly addicted I know! Kaisha just pulls them out but they are so easy and fun to make and my sewing machine is broken (and they look really cute for the 2 minutes she wears them). Excuse the terrible photos again and the model.

Spotlight

Its amazing how much damage you can do in the 10 minutes before spotlight closes! Here are the goodies.

Craft Saturday

Every friday I try and do a little craft project. It has to be something I can complete while Kaisha is asleep and only take a couple of hours. I have decided that I will post my project on here on Saturday (if I did one).
This week I have been making felt dahlia corsages. I found this tutorial a couple of weeks ago and immediately got all excited. Lucky we live right next to a shopping center! Kaisha and I went down to the mall to see if we could find any felt. Crazy Clarks had lovely red felt for 69cents and craft glue for 3.50. It took me 2 hours to complete my first flower, these are quite fiddly and there is lots of gluing involved so release your inner child for this project. There are extra tips here which I found quite helpful. My felt was just the cheaper polyester felt and I just used ordinary craft glue for my first one. The peg idea is really helpful too. For my second one I used a hot glue gun and that was much faster. I also cut out templates of the petal shapes in the 3 sizes which made cutting out the petals way faster and more accurate. Happy Gluing!