Don yourself in some Valentine bling with this fun necklace! It’s suitable for adults or children. Materials: 1 Valentine Brooch Cranberry, Rose and Off White wool felting yarn – small amounts Crochet Hook H/8 – 5.00MM Yarn Needle Off white embroidery floss Cranberry Embroidery Floss To make a 20” chain as pictured you will need …
Embroidering
Valentine Brooch
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, who couldn’t use a little heart? Check out our new Valentine Brooch in the Free Patterns. You say brooches aren’t your thing? No problem! Use the pattern as an applique on anything that screams for a little bling! Later this week I’ll show you how to turn the Valentine Brooch into a …
Valentine Brooch Directions
Materials: Cranberry Wool Felt – small amount Rose Wool Felt – small amount Off White Wool Felt – small amount Cranberry Embroidery floss Green Embroidery floss Stuffing – wool, cotton or polyfil – small amount 3/4” – 1” bar pin Copy of Pattern [1] Print pattern and use to cut felt as follows: 2 …
Heeere’s Horace!
As promised, I completed the pattern and directions for our Puppy Dog Doorstop, Horace. Although I love the Kitty Cat Doorstop, Jasper, I’m a dog person, and this little guy just tickles my fancy! In the directions I included the felt and embroidery floss colors I used, but go wild with your own interpretation! …
Puppy Dog Doorstop Directions
Materials: (yardages are approximate and based on optimal placement) 12″ x 18″ felt color A (Copper Kettle) 8″ x 10″ felt color B (Pumpkin Spice) 8″ x 8″ felt color C (Beige) Scrap felt color D (Black) Embroidery floss color A (Copper) (DMC 301) Embroidery floss color D (Black) (DMC 310) Embroidery floss color E …
Meet Horace
Edit: Directions for our Doorstop Puppy can be found HERE. Yesterday I turned my doggy doodle into our Puppy Dog Doorstop. Meet Horace. And despite common misconceptions, cats and dogs can exist harmoniously! Horace and Jasper have become fast friends and can be found skulking about, looking for mischief and mayhem. That’s fine for now. Blanketed …
Kitty Cat Doorstop Good to Go
The good news is I got the directions for the Kitty Cat Doorstop posted in the Crafting Club Patterns. If you are new to the site you'll see that many of our patterns are FREE for public viewing, whereas some can only be viewed by Crafting Club members. Membership and patterns are free and registration takes only …
Cat Doorstop
Materials: Felt color A Felt color B Embroidery floss color A Embroidery floss color B 2 3/4” buttons with 2 holes for eyes Contrasting embroidery floss for sewing on eyes Stuffing (wool or polyfil) Beans, fish gravel or large grained sand for weighting the bottom Pattern Directions: (All seams are 1/4″.) 1] Download pattern …
Kitty Cat Doorstop
EDIT: Pattern for the Doorstop Cat can be found HERE. Well…over break I was able to design the pattern for the cat doorstop, and finished him this morning. He’s purrfect! He weighs in around a pound, which wouldn’t be enough to hold open a door in a torrential wind, but he’ll do just fine for your …
Finally Done with the Hobby Horses!
I finally finished the hobby horses. Boy, these sure have been a long undertaking. It’s not that making the individual horses took that long, but when you design something instead of following a pattern, you wind up with a couple beta runs and there’s usually at least some “tweakage”! The last piece was trying to decide how …
Treasure Pouch
To get more information and photos of this project, CLICK HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. I created the Treasure Pouch so my grandbabies could take them along on walk-abouts. It’s just big enough, 7″ x 6″, to tuck away several “keepers”, without being too heavy or cumbersome! Materials: Pattern Pieces Snail Applique Pattern Flower Applique Pattern …
Owl Book Mark Directions
The pattern and directions for this wise old owl is now available in the FREE Pattern section. This one took me a bit longer to make than the pussycat…about 2 hours…but still a quick little project to make at the last minute to give to an avid reader. Use my design, the climbing vine, or try something …