My Christmas Makes…

Since I haven’t had a working camera for a while, there was obviously some delay in being able to share them with you.  Instead of writing a number of posts, I’ve decided to put all the things I’ve made for Christmas together in one post.

First up are the felt hearts.  I made one randomly.  I was just playing with some off-cuts of felt, thread and a huge bag of filling I had.  I like it so much I made a few more of them, in different colours, and added a length of ribbon so that they can be used as tree decorations.

Felt Hearts

Since I liked how easy using felt was, I had an idea for felt robins.  These took a few attempts to get right.  My sewing skills aren’t brilliant, but they turned out nice.  I can sew as long as I concentrate very hard and sew slowly… but then I get impatient and end up having to unpick stitches.  The eyes were originally made by sewing little French knots but I’m not very good at them (I manage to get maybe 4 out of 10 right!) and they were too loose.  For the ones in the pictures, I used tiny black seed beads.  It was a bit tricky at first, but I think I’ve gotten the hang of it now!  Again, I added a length of ribbon so they can be used as tree decorations.  The filling (that was also used in the hearts) is horrible stuff!  It feels horrid in my hands – it’s worse than cotton wool!  I stuffed the robins as tightly as I could and stitched up the gap.  Normally I would sew inside-out and turn right-side out later.  This time, I decided to sew around the edge from the outside, in blanket stitch, but making the stitches tiny.

Felt Robins

 

 

Lastly, do you remember the little beanie hats I knitted?  Well, most of them ended up on little Christmas cards… and they look like this!

 

 

 

I made them using little card blanks and decorating them very simply with a few tiny snowflake stamps and silver ink.  The ‘Christmas Joy’ greeting is simply stamped – in either red, green or black ink – on card and then mounted on the card blank.