Felt Cupcake from Cheryl A Smith, $15. She also has some adorable felt finger puppets in her shop that would be great stocking stuffers.
This felt cupcake is in honor of my daughter’s fourth birthday today! I intended to make some felt cakes, but since my other daughter has a birthday coming in ten days I suppose I’ll get another chance. Whew! Two December babies.
Here’s a woodland felt scene that I made for my daughter’s birthday. This is simply a red felt background with moveable pieces. It started as a memory game, then a felt board, but since I’m having a hard time controlling the clutter around here, I wanted something that could roll up and be put away on a shelf. Here are the templates:
The felt mat is made from two contrasting pieces of wool felt 9 1/2″ x 30″ and sewn with a ribbon in between the layers. I sewed some extra stitching around the figures and sewed the background together, but since felt glues easily, you could do this project without a sewing machine. You could even make these shapes from paper for a rainy day coloring project.
A quick note about felt: Always use wool felt or a good quality wool blend. I buy my large pieces at a big box fabric store by the yard. The smaller colored pieces I order from various places. You can’t always get a wide selection of colors by the yard. If you have a dressmaker’s fabric store, they will also have wool used for suiting that would work well, but might be more expensive. Acrylic felt will fall apart, so if you care about your project, use wool!
As always, projects shown here are for personal use only. If you make this, please post a photo in the Make it Monday Flickr pool here. Thanks!
Here are a few paper projects:
German Star, made by Fryd + Design, tutorial at Craftideas.info.
Snowman Garland and more paper crafts can be found at d. sharp.
Paper Trees from Martha Stewart.
Potato-printed gift paper from Craft Stylish.
Paper Snowflake on Wiki-How.
Origami Stars by Zen Crafting.
Flower Garland from Zakka Life.
This didn’t quite turned out as I imagined, but here it is anyway. I asked my five-year-old to draw something for me to make into a stuffed animal for her birthday. She quickly drew this “lion monster” and I used felted sweater, fabric scraps and felt to put it together.
Sewing with felted sweaters was difficult for me and I found it hard to avoid this lumpy look without overstuffing it. I think it would be helpful to use iron-on stabilizer when working with sweaters. I cropped this photo intentionally because my construction on the bottom is terrible! It helps me to think of my awful hand sewing as folksy and quaint, rather than messy and uneven. Whatever works.
Doily clock, $24 from and furthermore,.
Art doll peace dove, $42 from shecological.
Hanako porcelain and silver necklace, $38 from Wapa.
White wool nesting bowls, set of 3 for $35 from Cose Dolci.
Scrappy wreath, $12 from Copabananas.
Set of 6 woodgrain coasters, $20 from Avril Loreti.
Payne’s gray cloud small, $55 from rosetung.
Candlewicking embroidery on muslin, $8 from Lucinda’s Nice Things.
Little Red Riding Hood jointed paper doll, $12 from wool & water.
