Winter Blue Felt House (miniature)

I'm thinking about making various small houses/shops in this style to use as Christmas ornaments next year.  This house is just made out of basic eco-felt and then hand-stitched and stuffed with a little polyester fiber-fill.

Cupcake and Owl Felties

I did these two the other night so that I had something to occupy my hands while we watched a little TV.  They didn't take long at all.  Both are made of felt- part wool felt and part craft felt.  The patterns for these little guys can be found in the book From Felt to Fabulous. This is a thin book, and though it doesn't seem like much there are dozens of cute creature and item patterns in the back.  I love how simple everything in it is.

Cupcake Ornament

Woodland Owl

I also made a little felt flower yesterday, which I was planning on putting on my Marie Antoinette doll (which ended up being a giant 13 1/2" tall!).  But after thinking about it, I decided I want several small flowers in Marie's hair vs. one large one.  Marie will hopefully be finished in a week and I'll post pics of her then!  So far I'm loving her.

Felt flower with pearl beads

Charles, completed.

Charles is done!  He turned out a bit lopsided and, well, funny looking.  I blame that on my inability to properly use a sewing machine.  I'm learning, but ever so slowly.  I do really like the way the hand-dyed gray wool felt turned out for his jacket.

Charles, the Uptown guy

Current felt project is Charles, once again from the Fanciful Felties book.

I have to cut out and embroider his jacket, add a backing, and stuff him.  I'll post the final when he is completed, which will hopefully be soon.  I'm planning on cutting up one of my husband's old shirts for the backing.

My version of Charles, so far.

This is the photo of him finished from the  book (I changed him a bit):

*I do not own this image, it is from Fanciful Felties by Samantha Cotterill

Last but not least, I dyed a bit of 100% wool felt for my Tardis project.  If you watch Dr. Who, then you know what the Tardis is.  I'm happy to say that dying wool with food coloring works out pretty well.

POLICE CALL BOX aka Tardis felt.

Panda Feltie

He just might be the cutest little guy ever…

This one was fun to make, SUPER easy, really quick, and ADORABLE.  From the  

Felties book.

Sew Cute! (mushroom girl, babushka, marge)

My current obsession: Sewing cute things out of felt.  This week's projects included the following:

Mushroom Girl

Babushka

Marge

Totally loving these!  I'll be making more this week.  Books used for these adorable friends are Felties and Fanciful Felties:


Mushroom Girl was changed into a larger version with more sparkly stuff (can you ever have too many sparkles?).  Babushka's embroidery design was changed, and Marge's colors were altered.  The wool felt for Marge was also hand-dyed by me...which was quite the adventure.  I'm planning on a Marge "reboot" within the next few weeks as I looked at my first attempt as the "practice."  I also want to change her colors up.

Some of the "stuff" I used in these projects:

My super favorite embroidery floss- DMC!

Best little scissors ever (Gingher 4" embroidery scissors):

Water erasable pen (to trace your patterns):