Pin cushion sawppiness

I had an extremely hard time giving up this pin cushion.  In fact, I had to leave it at Craft Akron so I would not conviently forget it at home.

I made the pattern with muslim, put that together and stuffed it.  Then took 2 days to create the felted cover with merino wool from http://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenwoodFiberworks.  I handstitched it all together and then had fun making the bugs that crawl about on the pin cushion. 

I believe this was about 6 inches in diameter.  Not that I meant to make it so large but it just grew!

A dragonfly.  Soo cute, I need to add these to the flower barrettes I make, but I am not sure how they will hold up.

Top of the dragonfly.

Side view of the butterfly.

 Top view of the butterfly.

Felted Flower Addiction

What a fun addiction to make!  I've been using hand dyed merino roving to create these little guys. Takes me about 2hrs to make about 20 of them, and the centers.  I have been known to use the blow dryer to decrease the wait time on drying so I can sew centers on and put on the backs.  I love the barretts and am thinking about finding some nice hair combs to decorate with flowers.

General size of the flowers are just a little larger than a quarter.








I will have a few classes coming up on how to make these suckers, check out dates and times at both Craft Akron and Peninsula Art Academy.

I am going to experiment with creating little insects to accent the flowers.  Thanks to Martha at Craft Akron, I can now attach the dots or legs or whatever with the needle felting needles she gave me this afternoon.  Which is just fantastic because the needles I found at home have rusted from being out in the garage...really, really need to get that studio started and completed!

Cotton Flower Design

This scarf and hat are only in existance because of a great friend Andi!  It was her Japanese book with the scarf design in it that started me off in this flower making craze.  The hat is my idea and I do need to tear it apart, it needs just one more flower in the 3rd row to fit correctly.  Then I will work on cleaning up my instructions so I can share it!

The flowers are crocheted and are out of what i had left of 'cotton ease'.  Which I think I bought at Joanne Fabrics.  I love the yarn, its nice and soft. 

6 petaled flowers are attached where you see the petals touch.  The downfall to this design is that each petal is tied seperately and then you have to weave in the ends.  It was time consuming and I have only made one other one for a swap.   

                                                   

This flower scarf was alot of fun to make.  I used 4 skeins of soy silk/wool mixed yarn.  I used a larger crochet hook and after I made all the flowers I threw them into the washing maching and felted them down.  I then spent a few nights putting it together and stitching in a few centers with maroon or yellow dmc floss.