Totally addicted

It's strange how my crafting goes in obsessions and bursts of activity. I hadn't touched felt since I made my boyfriend some Domo-kun mittens 2 Christmases ago and now I can't stop thinking about it. Since I finished the car I have churned out another ornament. It was fun to make things pretty instead of masculine. I meant to do the two lines of writing in the same colour; I guess my eyesight was on the blink.

And now I must get dressed and go out: to the post office to post this to its new home!

In which I have completed a Thing

With help from a felt-endowing friend and a bit of motivation, I completed the Christmas decoration for Liam last night. This was apparently the push I needed to get my camera out for the first time since Christmas - my ipod camera was not cutting the mustard! So here's a photo.

It's a bit wonky in places and I can see all its faults but I think it's wonky in a cute, homemade-looking way. I'm so pleased with how it turned out and now want to make more (all of the...!) things with felt.

Fun with felt

I spend far too much time on Pinterest. I have some sort of pin stashing disorder that means if I want to do everything on my boards I'll need several million pounds, a lot more energy and motivation and to live until I'm about 150. That said, for once, I actually decided to do something in one of my pins.

This is what I saw. And I thought I can make something like that! Not as neatly, granted, but I can make something similar. So here is my work in progress. It's for my boyfriend's baby nephew Liam who loves cars. Who knew a baby could have preferences? Not me. I'm planning to put his name on the middle somewhere and his date of birth in the wheels. The year in one, the day and month in the other. Struggling to decide on how to do his name though! Whether to put a little garland across and put his name in that or to cut out letters from felt (he has a short name, thankfully) and stitch those on or to just embroider it in the middle, on its own, which scares me a bit because I'll probably do it wonky. I'm out of colours though, so I have time to ponder!

First post!

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