A Little Boat and The Whole Jar

Day #187
Heart #195

I intended to post this two days ago, when I posted all the fobs on my other blog--but I forgot!!  So here is the jar of fobs, as promised.

Today I have a little boat scissors fob to show you.  As with all these fobs, this is made from wool felt, embroidery floss, sewing thread, baker's twine, polyfill, and imagination!

And now, to show off my pint-size jar FULL of scissors fobs!  How many are in here, you ask?  The only person who ventured a guess was Diane (aka fiddlegirl8); she guessed 44...the actual number is...34!

Layered Hearts

Day #177
Hearts #160-162

Here are three more heart-shaped, wool-felt scissors fobs.  The layers of color make them pretty, especially in a group like this!

Sewing Machine

Day #175
Heart #158

Pink is one of my favorite colors, but it can be tricky to get it right...which is probably why I haven't seen any all-pink sewing machines.  I thought I would try out a pink sewing machine in felt--and I think it looks cute--as a scissors fob, anyway!  (Now that I see these pictures, I think it might have looked better on a light-colored backgrouond.  You may see "Sewing Machine #2" tomorrow!)

Yesterday, on my other blog (Leslie's Art and Sew) I did a review of the baker's twine I'm using in these fobs, and the store it came from.  Click on the name of the blog, above, if you would like to read it.

Felt Badge Heart

Day #171
Heart #154

This is a heart I made recently for a personal swap on Craftster.  It is made of wool felt and embroidery floss, and glass beads.  It is a copy of one I saw on my partner's Pinterest, and as with all my felt hearts, it is entirely hand sewn.  It is just under 3" in width.

Bird

Day #170
Heart #153

A simple little bird scissors fob, cut free-hand from wool felt.

I sewed the bird's body and wing in place with a a single strand of sewing thread (rather than embroidery thread) because the pieces are so small.

Ladybug on a Leaf #2

Day #168
Heart #151

Usually, the second time I make something, it is more refined than the first one.  That is so true of this ladybug on a leaf scissors fob!  On my first attempt, the colors just weren't right, and the ladybug was too big.  I like this one much better.

Happy Clouds

Day #156
Hearts #128-129

Two more scissors fobs!

I wanted to try an image-transfer technique I heard about on Craftster:  using a rubber stamp, stamp the image on the WRONG side of the felt, and use that as your guide as you emberoider.  That's how I did the cloud on the left.  It worked okay, but wasn't as precise as I would like, so for the fob on the right, I cut felt into the cloud shape and sewed that to the heart.  I like that much more!

Notions and Buttons

Day #149
Hearts #116-117

I have two more alphabet hearts to show you today.  They are so similar-looking that I'm glad they will be widely separated in my alphabet garland!

"N" is for Notions:

"B" is for Buttons:

These two hearts (and all of the ones from yesterday, and the ones still to come) have letters made from fabric, fused to the heart with Heat n Bond.  It is quicker than sewing the letters on, and I like the look of the fabric letters.  Most of the previous alphabet hearts have felt letters that I carefully sewed by machine, but this will be a garland, high on the wall, that won't be closely inspected, so I think I can get away with fusing rather than sewing some of the letters!

One More Heart Badge

Day #91
Heart #94

Here's another felt heart badge, similar to the one I made yesterday.  I currently have badges on the brain, and I need to make a bunch of them and get them out of my system!  Then I promise to return to the winged hearts.

This is made of wool felt and cotton embroidery floss.

Heart Badge

Day #90
Heart #93

I haven't been able to make more of the winged hearts yet, so I will show you something else.  There is a new swap starting on Craftster, dreamed up and organized by the amazing Lime Riot, called the Felt Badge Swap.  All you have to do is click on that link to go to the swap page; at the top of the page you will see a picture of tons of cute and amazing felt badges--and once you see them, you too will fall under the spell of felt badges!  I realized today that I have an unfinished one that I started who-knows-when.  I finished it up, and since it features a big heart, I'm counting it as heart #93!

I had intended to put a pin back on it, but I finished the back without it, because that's how we are doing it in the swap, so your partner can use it however she wants.  When I have a few more, I think I will mount them in a frame or something similar, so the whole collection can be viewed like a piece of art.

There is something so cool about this little 1 3/4"  piece of felty craftiness!  I can see that I will probably want to have a big collection, so I hope there will be many more of these swaps! 

Today's Post is Brought To You by the Letters H and Q

Day #15
Hearts #19 and #20

I have two more alphabet-letter hearts today.  They are both made of cotton fabric and have a felt letter sewn onto them.  I will start with the best one. 

Presenting:  the letter Q!

Somehow, this heart came out perfect!  The shape is symmetrical, the hanging loop is nice and straight, and the letter Q shows up sharply against the bright yellow background.  The fabric is from the package sent to me by my friend Susan with this challenge in mind.  She wishes the question marks were larger, so the fabric would be more useful to her, but for this small heart shape (about 3.5"), it is perfect!  Thanks, Susan!

Now for the letter H.  This picture shows my new technique to make the hanging ribbon come out straight:  I tape it in place before sewing the back and front of the heart together.  After sewing and turning it right-side-out, I simply remove the tape, and the ribbon is nice and straight.  Hooray!

Here's the finished heart.  The curves could be smoother, but it's okay.

Felt Heart Inspiration

Aahhh, these beautiful hearts make me happy just to look at them!  I've done simple felt hearts, but Cheryl at Felt So Good took these to another level.  I MUST MAKE SOME LIKE THESE!  And I believe that when my Heart-A-Day challenge starts (in 3 days!!), I will!