Felt decorations

So recently I have had a bit of a thing about felt, so I have been making lots of felt decorations. It started as simple padded decorations with novelty buttons and I plan on making keyring's out of the same idea but smaller :)

But its a simple little stitching project that can be used for many different things, murals, key rings, hanging decorations, just let your imagination run away with you.
All you need is felt in a few different colours some templates of your choice (I usually just print out some outlines and draw round them onto the felt), 3 or 4 beads, some thread to make the teasel, 20cm of ribbon and some pretty buttons.

• Cut out two large pieces of felt to be the background.  
• And a few smaller shapes to decorate, you can choose if you decorate both sides. 
• Decide how you want them laid out and glue the small bits to the bigger bits. 
• Stitch round the deigns to make fix them properly and to make the shapes look more interesting (using different colour threads). 
• To make the teasel, cut approx. 20 lengths of thread about 20cm, line them all up and tie in the middle with a bit of thread about 30cm and fold in half, with a piece a thread about 30cm start rapping around the top of the folded in half teasel, and secure with a small knot. Thread the beads onto the the top and knot. 
• Attach the ribbon (folded in half) to the inside top of one of the large pieces of thread and the teasel to the bottom (be careful not to go through the felt with the stitches). 
• Put the two large pieces of felt back to back and with blanket stitch run about the the outside locking them together, use your judgement to leave enough gap to put in the stuffing, once filled finish the blanket stitch. And Bobs your uncle.

Using the same design I also made a big star to go on top of the Christmas tree, it was a bit rushed because my family could not find the fairy anywhere, and we couldn't have nothing on the tree.


Merry Christmas
xx

Button jar labels

So all my buttons were just in a box and I thought I better have a massive sort out (best thing was finding buttons I had forgotten about). So in the interest of organisation mass labelling was needed. This was the outcome.

The problem is that lots of my buttons are in individual stacking pots, sorted into colours and styles, and I don't want to mix them in the jars but keep changing my mind about which ones to put in. Rubbish I know!!!!! at some point I will screw up the courage to mix them all up.

I love them, they are really pretty :-D but yes I know a little on the twee side.
Happy Christmas xx

Vintage Fonts

I thought I would find some vintage fonts that I could stitch onto fabrics. :) These are some of my favourite

Matchbook 

Riesling 

Fontleroy Brown 

Lemon Chicken 

BP Script 

Upper East Side

I plan on using these as soon as possible

http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/30-fonts-perfect-for-vintage-and-retro-style-design

:) xx

Biscuits

So today I though I would make a start on the Christmas food. So here come the cupcakes and biscuits.

Really fatty biscuits but they are amazing.

Only problem is they spread out when cooked which is funny first lot ended up as a blob lol

Ingredients

500g butter, softened

200g caster sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

500g plain flour

Preparation method

1.	Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4.
2.	Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Stir in vanilla; add flour and mix well.
3.	Put through biscuit press and form biscuits onto baking trays. Alternatively, roll out to 1cm thickness and cut out desired shaped with biscuit cutters. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Pasted from <http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6330/shortbread-biscuits.aspx>

Pin cushion

My next task was a pin cushion. Its got a Cross stitch front and a cotton back.

It came out a bit small for the next one I am going to use larger stitch material.

:)

Needle book

I fancied doing something a bit different and I have become a massive fan of felt at the moment. So I made a house shaped needle book.

This is my quirky little cottage.

:)

Christmas socks

So I started on the Christmas socks yesterday and they are going really well. I've so far made 6 with initials on for my family. But they are really simple to make with felt and different coloured tread.

Have much fun
x x x

Skirts

Right so I've not really updated this in a while so there are a few things to catch up on.
So I will get started on the Christmas Stuff soon yes I know I am very late starting but works been mad.

Over the past couple of months I haven't really done very much I have only made/finished a few skirts.
The First a high waisted 'curtain' skirt (as my friend like to call it) which I mentioned before.

The picture hasn't come out very well but this skirt is about 4inches above the knee and is usually warn with a shirt tucked in and a waist belt around the waist band.

The second skirt is a short straight pink and grey checked skirt. Its the first straight skirt I have tried, its not finished very well and the waist band is still a little large and has got darts in it but next time will be better. :-)

  Its got two pockets and is side farseeing. But I love the material its really thick and a lovely colour.

:-)
xx