Surf Jewels

Stamps

Stamping, My other craft (that I started just after Christmas- I asked for the equipment as a pressie!)

Here are the stamps I have made so far.

I decided to stick them to pieces of wood, as this would make it easier (and neater hopefully) to stamp.

Little Felted Robin

My second venture into felting, a little robin.

So I started with some wire made into feet and felted around it.

I then used brown wool roving layered over the top and made a couple of brown wings and attached.

I then added orange wool.

Then for the eyes and beak :)

Burgandy Skirt

I decided to make a skirt to wear in the evening. I had seen one like it and it had an elastic waistband. I thought great- nice and easy!

And actually, for a change, it was. I cut the burgundy fabric and some lining fabric, then stretched the elastic as I sewed. Hemmed the bottom and that was pretty much that.

Really happy with how it came out.

excuse the mess btw

Little felt mouse

I discovered a new craft (yes another one). I do like to try new things all the time and am always trying out new crafts.

My latest one is needle felting. I looked into it a while back and was thinking about trying it out. I would have to get hold of the equipment and didn’t quite got around to it. But recently I saw some lovely felt animals and really wanted to give it a go. So after some searching on ebay and how to sites for felting. I got myself a felting needle and some wool roving and got started.

Am very happy as this is my first go at it and I love the little mouse I managed to create :) It’s what makes me happy, what can I say!!

So I started off with some wool like this and started stabbing at it with my new felting needle and ended up with this:

I then shaped it, so that it looked more like a mouse’s head.

I then made a wire frame for its body, so that it would stand up and started felting around it.

After a while and a fair bit of patience, I ended up with this.

I then added some features, eyes, ears, nose etc.

and finally a smile…

I couldn’t stop there though could I?

So I got out the knitting needles and some wool and made him a very little jumper.

I added a button and put it on :)

He stands at about 3 inches high

28th May 2013 | 4 notes

Baby blanket

I decided to make a baby blanket for my friend who’s having a baby.

I made lots of different squares in green, brown, cream and grey. Some plain, some patterned and some with images on. I choose to do some hearts, a cow, a monkey, a rabbit and some others that I thought were cute.

It ended up taking quite a bit of time as I had to draw each pattern I wanted out onto squared paper and then knit each square.