I finished the felt butterflies for National Nonwovens' booth at spring Quilt Market. I made a second large one (12" across) and two smaller ones (6" across). This was such a fun project. Butterflies are something I would never have thought to make without a special request. When I opened the box of felt on…
Learning Photography and Making Butterflies
This week I was in touch with National Nonwovens, wholesale purveryors of the lovely wool-blend felt I have been working with. You can buy their felt retail at Wool Felt Central. Melissa, felt-crafter extraordinaire, originally recommended their felt to me and I have loved working with it these past few months. The colors are so…
Book Review: Big Little Felt Universe by Jeanette Lim
I love house plants to death. I saw a beautiful jade plant at Trader Joe’s last year and brought it home to live on our kitchen table, under the window. I admired it every morning at breakfast, I watered it frequently. Too frequently. As its leaves began to drop off one by one I was…
Soft Block
Inspired by a project in my Jean Ray Laury book, A Treasury of Needlecraft Gifts for the New Baby, I made this soft block out of felt. Lots of good embroidery practice and it came out rather nicely. It’s squishy and fun to play with. Such a fun, easy project – it came together in…
Flowers
A bee nestled in one of the zinnias in my garden Cock’s combs are also growing. They are such an amazing color red (and is that a daddy longlegs hiding in there?). And a sneak peak at something I am making for a swap with children’s illustrator Holli Conger. We are off to the Cape…