by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 11, 2010 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial
Oh my gosh these little felt crafts are getting around aren’t they? The lovely Retro Jet Girl was out shopping a little while ago, found some and sent me a care package! Now I have 3 more of these little guys to show you 😀 Thank you so much Retro Jet Girl! I’ll show you all the lovely care package items she sent me tomorrow in snapshots!
Obviously again I can’t take any credit for making this tutorial because I was just following their instructions. Full credit goes to the original company but I took photos while I was making it because I thought you might find it interesting anyway ^_^ You can find most of the materials around the house and you can easily substitute anything you like.
I find crafts like these really relaxing to do while watching a movie or unwinding before bed time.
So the first one I made was the cupcake!
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Cute packaging as per usual though it doesn’t really look like any cupcake I’ve ever eaten XD
What you need:
- Small brown circle of felt
- Strip of brown felt
- Needle and thread
- Stuffing
- Large white circle of felt
- 4 rounded triangles of yellow felt for icing
- Seed beads
- 2 small circles of cardboard
- 1 large circle of cardboard
I started with the brown pieces and blanket stitched them together to form a tube…
Like this:
Next I took both small cardboard circles and 1/2 of the stuffing and sandwiched together. I shoved it into the tube and left it for later.
I took the yellow triangles and stacked them. I then sewed down the center from top to bottom.
… and flared them out. The instructions said I should leave like this but the felt kept springing back into place so I needed to stitch the sides together.
Last for this part I added a pearl on top.
I deviated from the instructions because this seemed easier. To make the top of the cupcake I took the icing and stitched to the middle of the white circle.
Then I randomly stitched beads around like sprinkles.
Flipping it over I used a running stitch around the outside.
I filled it with stuffing and the large cardboard piece…
And pulled the thread tight so it would form a kind of ball.
Taadaa…
Last thing to be done was stitching the top of the cupcake to the base. Tie everything off and you’re done 😀
I am getting quite the collection of these little guys! I am thinking that I should make some kind of gigantic monster cake hair band with them 😀 |
They are originally meant to be magnets but what would you guys use them for?
by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 8, 2010 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial
A while ago you might remember that I was given some *awesome* handmade yarn from the lovely Vintage Grrl and I made it into fingerless gloves. Well I still had half a ball left over from that so I needed to think of a little project that would be cute but not require much yarn… and so a mug warmer was born ^_^
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I started with a chain which was long enough to go around the the mug.
I then started a pattern of 3xDC in the third chain, SC, repeat until the end. This made cute little scallops:
At the end of the row I chained a couple and repeated the pattern of 3DC into the tops of each scallop.
This was after the second row:
I pretty much just kept on with this until it was long enough to cover my mug.
Close up you can see the pattern a little better…
I finished off by adding scallops to the bottom side as well ^_^
I folded the edges in and stitched them together at the top and bottom corners.
This way the whole thing just slips over the mug while leaving space for the handle. Super easy quick craft to do while watching a movie
That said now that I have my awesome warming mug of doom I don’t really need it anymore hahaha XD Very fun to make anyway, I’ll have to find another use for it! Maybe I’ll make it into a big scallopy hair bow 😀 |
by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 7, 2010 | Advert, Review
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As you all know, I am a big lover of socks and stockings so when The Sock Boutique were lovely enough to send me one of the designs they’ve just started stocking I was quite excited to see what would arrive!
Beautifully wrapped up in tissue paper and a little pink ribbon…
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Inside was this pair of socks from Leg Avenue:
I *think* this particular Leg Avenue design is a knock off of a Japanese brand’s design but I can’t for the life of me remember which brand though, so someone correct me please!ANGELIC PRETTY design (thanks for the correction Tash!). They are designed to mimic lace up boots. Very cute idea!
I quite like this design because they can be dressed up or down while still providing a point of interest. For example this is how I wore them in a casual way for grocery shopping…
And this is them dressed up to go out to dinner later that night.
I found that the socks themselves were made from very comfy cotton and even though they are designed to be knee high socks, I am quite short at 151cm so I wore them comfortably over the knee all day and they didn’t slip down at all.
I was wearing stockings under them this day because it was freeeezing outside but you can see the over the knee-ness here:
They feature lace around the top with a small polka dot bow. The lace wasn’t great quality but it doesn’t actually touch the skin so the scratchiness didn’t bother me. I am thinking that replacing it with cotton lace would be very easy to do, though I always wear them under longer dresses so no one will ever see the tops anyway…
Nice close up of the details, my favorite part are the little hearts! I don’t think these are “brand” quality socks but considering they only cost $8 while brand socks cost $30ish I am very happy with them.
Overall I am very happy with the quality and comfort of this pair. Very versatile for co-ordinations too! I’m looking forward to seeing what else they start stocking at The Sock Boutique!
If you would like your own pair you can buy these and others from The Sock Boutique.
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