Spiral

Day #195
Heart #204

I have a friend who likes swirls and spirals as design elements, so I made this wool felt scissors fob with her in mind.

Mountains

Day #192
Heart #201

There's still time to enter the giveaway for a scissors fob on my other blog, Leslie's Art and Sew.  I will be choosing the three winners tomorrow (Wednesday, July 11th), so hurry and leave a comment if you haven't already.

In one of the comments on that post, a reader named Connie suggested I should make a fob with a mountain scene.  I loved that idea, so here it is:

O, Canada!

Day #190
Heart #198

Here's the Canadian flag in wool-felt, heart-shaped, scissors-fob form.  Yes, the maple leaf was an EXTREME challenge, but I think it came out okay.  A little wonky, but okay.

Now, on to my next challenge:  a chicken!  Waggonswest and I are doing a very small personal swap, and she would like a chicken fob.  I'm hoping to come up with a couple of different ones for her to choose from, and I will post them here when they are finished.  In the meantime, I have a LOT of other ideas for fobs that I'm eager to get started on (which is great, because I still have a long way to go to get to the end of this challenge!!!)

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 #2

Day #176
Heart #159


Here it is--the pink sewing machine on a white background.  I like this one better! 

As with all the hearts in this scissors fob series, this one is made from wool felt, embroidery floss, sewing thread, baker's twine, and stuffing.

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.

Button Flowers

Day #174
Heart #157

Here's one more heart-shaped wool-felt scissors fob for my collection.  The simple button flowers are completed with embroidery.  It was quick and easy to make since I didn't have to cut out any tiny shapes from felt!  (I cut the background hearts using my Sizzix machine with a heart-shaped die.)

Kay has asked (and some of you may have wondered):  what do I plan to do with all these scissors fobs?  The answer is, there is no plan!  They might end up in my jar of hearts, or I might use them on the alphabet heart garland I plan to put together when I have time. Maybe I will give some away, or use them as ornaments on a table-top Christmas tree.

I enjoy looking at these little fobs as a group, because they are so tiny and cute, so I will do a post about them on my other blog (Leslie's Art and Sew) when I have a few more--that way you can see them all together too!

The End! (of the alphabet)

Day #153
Hearts #124-125

The last two letters of the alphabet hearts are finally done!  And they just happen to be my initials!

"L" is for Leaves and Ladybugs (and Leslie!):

I started this group of hearts with the letter "Z", so it's appropriate that I end with the letter "A"!

"A" is for Alphabet (and Andersen!):

And...since it's taken me so long to get the the end that you have probably forgotten what the first ones looked like, here they are, all 26 letters together:

I haven't strung them on a garland yet, but when I do I will post it on my other blog, Leslie's Art and Sew.  I will probably add a lot of random hearts to the garland, too; hopefully it will look fun and eclectic!

Gumdrops and Kitties

Day #152
Hearts #122-123

Ooh, here we are, just one day away from seeing the whole alphabet in heart form! 

Today's hearts are pretty and happy, and they just add to my excitement at being so close to finishing this particular project.  (Of course, I still have more than half the year left, so there are a lot of hearts still to come!)

"G" is for Gumdrops:

"K" is for Kitty:

This "kitty" heart is probably my favorite one, because I LOVE pink and turquoise together--and kitties!