a life of felt

I still had some of the little fabric pieces that I made in order to create the heart shaped wreath.

I’ve been playing around with them to see what else I could create. Many of the ‘creations’ have
been scrapped but I’m loving these dinky brooches.

They’d look good on hair slides too.

I have so enjoyed this project. Fun and quick.
Rather than a round wreath I decided on a heart shaped one to hang on my studio wall.I began by cutting it out on paper to ensure I liked the shape. The cardboard wasn’t very strong so I cut out two shapes and glued them together.

The next job was to glue on some ribbon for a hanging mechanism and then start the fun bit of
sticking on the felt. I used a hot glue gun.

As I moved along I kept changing the way the shapes were attached to change the direction of the folds.

This is just fab, I’m loving it.

Still loving it but decided to add a few more decorations in the shape of felt balls.

I couldn’t stop there either so I applied a small amount of glitter glue to the edges.
Sorry, you can’t see it on the photos

It’s not dry but it’s already hanging on my wall.
Maybe a round one for Christmas next.

Do you remember this?

I really wasn’t happy with it and several people were kind enough to make suggestions on how I might improve it. Well, it then sat in my cupboard for 7 months. Last week, I mustered sufficient enthusiasm to look at it again and even to put a few stitches in it.

I then asked another friend what she thought and her idea was to chop it up and make it into something else. Now I think she meant something else in which you’d see the design but that doesn’t seem to have been what I’ve done.

This is going to be a project you can do at home with the kids or alone. Felt won’t fray so I began by cutting lots of squares.

And made them into these.

They’re very rough discs. They don’t have to be perfect circles or be the same size, this is why it’s a good one to do with kids. Next, I folded them in half and then in half again and secured with a few stitches.

Now I have lots of these. In my next post I’ll show you what I made with them.

Don’t throw your offcuts away, save them for stuffing small Christmas tree decorations or
put them in the compost.No landfill here thanks.