This week we turned our Needle Felted Leaves into a Felt Leaves Mobile. Follow our felt leaves mobile tutorial to make your own nature inspired mobile. Felt Leaves Mobile Materials: First you will need to make some Wool Roving Needle Felted Leaves. Thin twine Colorful wooden beads Scissors Metal Yarn Needle A long stick from …
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Busy, Busy Hands
Snow, snow, and more snow…. but mostly cold. How to hold off cabin fever… keep your hands (or more importantly your kids’ hands) busy. Fortunately most of my kids’ Christmas gifts were activity based and as this winter has keep us mostly indoors… we have greatly appreciated all the crafty goodness. Bug whittling with his …
Memory Bouquet Felt Flower
Materials: Felt pieces glass seed beads embroidery floss 3 12″ pipe cleaners florist tape pattern Directions: 1] Make copy of pattern. 2] Cut out pattern in desired colors. Inner Beaded section: 3] Mark the inner circle. 4] Using 2 strands of embroidery floss, bring thread up in the center of the flower. String 1 bead …
Valentine Bracelet Directions
For a young child’s bracelet 2 1/2″ diameter. Add more hearts and beads to enlarge. Materials: small piece red wool felt small beads .7mm Stretch Magic elastic red embroidery floss heart pattern [1] Copy pattern. [2] Cut out 2 hearts for each heart on bracelet (I needed 4 finished hearts so I cut out 8 …
Trailing Vine Star Ornament
Gammy’s (Kimara) Ornament I know it is a little early for Christmas ornaments… but I was inspired to make these based on a blog challenge I participate in with Nature’s Way Learning. My mom thought it sounded like fun and of course went above and beyond on her design (which you can download here). I …