New felt creations

Well I promised a bit more of a decent post on here!! So here it is

This week is my final one as an unemployed person! So I decided to use the time well and continue working on some felt creations! I love working with felt as it's so easy to cut out and sew and the colours you can get are fantastic!!!

Anyway with seasons two and three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to keep my company I managed to finish a commission my friend had asked me to make

The heart lavender bags! I love making these as I adore buttons as well plus they're really relaxing to make probably something to do with the lavender!

Anyway I decided it was time to start making some seasonal things! And the next big holiday to come up is Halloween! I love Halloween unfortunately we won't be able to celebrate it much this year as we will be moving the weekend before so I'm just going to have to enjoy making decorations for other people!!

 

Anyway here they are

 

    Ghosty hanging decoration!

                      Blood sucking bat

 




                         Spooky pumpkin

And now for my favourite hanging decoration

 

 

Jack the Pumpkin King

 

Well as the very least I hope we will have unpacked the DVDs so Toby and I can do our annual Halloween tradition of watching Nightmare Before Christmas! Hopefully we will be able to make a few spooky cakes and biscuits!

 

Anyway hopefully I shall be able to make more of these decorations and I was thinking £4 each or 3 for £10 fingers crossed they will be a seller

 

But now I'm off to make some templates for Christmas decorations and I need to have a go at Xmas Bunting! Yay! Tis the season to get crafty!

Lavender pillows!

My mother's lavender bush in her back garden had grown to epic heights you couldn't actually get past it to get to the back of the garden! I decided it was time to trim it and pinch the lavender for myself so I managed to grab a bag full of the stuff took it home and dried it out!

I then made these :-

 The hearts are made of two hearts cut out of felt with buttons sewn on one side and a ribbon loop to hang them they are then stuffed with lavender. They smell lush!
And of course I couldn't just make one I had to make them in all the colours I could think of!

                                       Orange

                                        Pale Blue

                             Red

                          Turquoise

                               Purple

                                     Pink

                                    Green

                                and Navy

       I then made my friend this one she's just about to move into a new house and she's always dreamed of having roses around her front door so I embroidered them on for her, took me back to the years when I used to cross stitch haven't done a stitch like this for years!!!

 

I went back to my mother's yesterday to pick my son up and grabbed another massive bag full of lavender so once that's dried I'll be making more of these!

I was thinking of selling them for £2 each or three for £5 hopefully they will sell!

I have a massive load of felt I need to get through so I will be trying to find new things to make out of felt!

Near where I live there is a scrap store and it is amazing for £3 you can fill up a reusable shopping bag full of stuff and they have fabrics, stuffing for cushions, wool, thread and loads of paper and card, I even managed to pick up bubble wrap to help with packing everything for our big move at the end of October.

I really must start packing instead of making things!!!!

Now onto the textiles

OK here's a few items I've made from textiles

 A selection of pillows! The ones at the back are made from old fabric samples from upholstery books simply cut out sewn together and stuffed!

 A close up of the purple patchwork pillow this was my first attempt at patchwork!

A patchwork quilt I made for my son he picked the fabrics himself! This was my first proper attempt at making a full quilt, when I was sewing across the whole quilt there was a tiny bit of swearing! I need to get a bigger dinning room table before I attempt a double quilt I think!!

 A costume I made for my son for a knights and princess party it's amazing what you can make out of an old pillow case and some red felt!

And finally (for now) a picture of my sewing machine cover I love this fabric if only I could get away with wearing it!!

There will be many more textile related crafts to follow once my other half has finished taking his amazing pictures of them!!!