Have You Googled Yourself? Plus Felt Reindeer.
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OMG, I just did that and I am on two pages. My old friends from school wouldn’t be able to say they weren’t able to get a hold of me! Try it out, see if you’re all over Google!
So, besides that, I wasn’t feeling too paper crafty this evening. So I decided to make a little ornament. I made this little guy based on Mel Goodsell’s template. This is my second reindeer actually. My first one was a Christmas present but I forgot to take a picture of it. If I remember correctly, the other one is cuter than this but my stitching skill is a bit better here. Who knows. I’m still confused in some areas, like what do you do when you run out of thread? How do you start again to get a clean and continuous looking stitching. Is that even possible? So despite my questions and that I think it’s just not done right, since I learned on my own from a YouTube video (see my first felt creation), I’m going to shut up and be happy with what I’ve got. Here it is:
For the stitching, I just used regular sewing thread. I don’t have access to anything else in this town — got to drive — so just have to use what I have. Orange is the color of the thread going around the reindeer. The mouth is suppose to be red but you can’t really tell. I didn’t use anything around his neck because unlike Mel’s, my scarf looked ridiculous
I like this little guy. It’s my fourth creation. Two owls and two reindeers. I want to try a little dolly or the pencil topper thing (guess who’s site I’m getting this idea from, ha!). I do love a lot of the items that in my Flickr favorites but many seems so hard. Maybe when I get better. Now, I did get some zig zag scissors for fabric, oh, what are they called now… so this weekend I can work on M’s bday stuff.
First Felt Owl
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I’ve been so into handmade stuff lately, especially handmade felt dolls, that I thought I’d give it a try. I went to a few different sites, found some tutorials bought some felt and yarn and here it is… drum rolls please… my first felt own doll courtesy of YouTube’s backstitch and owl tutorial. My owl isn’t exactly like Floresita’s, her owl body was one piece where my owl body has two pieces that I stitched together.
I didn’t follow any specific size for my doll. I grabbed some construction paper, folded it half and started cutting the body. It was too fat the first time around and after trimming it down a bit I got to the size I liked. Then I cut some arms, eyes, eye balls, and mouth. I put the patterns on top of the felt and cut, cut, cut.
I stitched everything together starting with the eyeballs. Attached the eyeballs to the white felt then the white and mouth to the body. After the face was all secured I stitched the arms onto the body. Then I stitched the front and back body together leaving a little bit on top for my stuffing. Stuffed the fiber in and finished stitching.
This was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it and I’m thinking of incorporating some stitching work into my cards.
