I felt for it

Ha ha ha. I thought long and hard about my title, I really wanted to use a pun and I did.

Bless my heart.

So I am in love with this felt food more than my son is. I purchased the pattern on Etsy from a shop called BuggaBugs. All I want to do is make more and more.

Sometimes I imagine I walk into my sons room and he's sitting on the floor wearing suspenders and a newsboy cap. He has a wooden truck he's rolling across the floor and he looks up at me and greets me with an English accent. Wouldn't that be adorable?

Did you have any homemade gifts that you loved more than the receiver?

PS Partying with A Soft Place to Land, The Girl Creative, Made by you Mondays, It's so Very Cheri, Reinvented, We are THAT family, Blue Cricket Design, Finding Fabulous and

DIY Ornaments

We just gave our first free tutorial, what the heck, let's do another :) I recently created a whole bunch of templates to make felt ornaments, my new favorite stuff to work with, just look at my chickens! So I am going to call this a mini tutorial, because I don't have pictures to go along with it. For starters I have uploaded the templates for you to use here and here.

I decided to make an open stocking for each of my boys so I can stuff a little candy in them :) All of the other ornaments are stuffed with regular cheap batting!

HOW TO: Print off templates and cut around one template, let's say the stocking. Pin the paper to your felt and cut around (remember to double up for front and back!) Cut scraps of felt for the top, toe and heel if you want. Use a running stitch to attach each of these to the top layer of felt. You can also use fabric glue to help you on your way :) Finally, I did a blanket stitch around the entire stocking. I found this site helpful to learn the stitches, and I'm sure if you typed in any of the stitches someone would show you on video on youtube.

(I used a running stitch, back stitch, whip stitch and blanket stitch)

They make me so happy. I want to make 804 more.

Let me know ANY questions you have!

(PS the owl is not an original idea of mine, it comes from a crafty magazine a few years back...I just wanted you to know I'm not that amazing. Oh, and I'd add some googlie eyes to him.)

PS We added this to AmyLouWho's Sew and Tell Friday's.