Needle felting - coin purses - galaxy purple

Time to play around with this and see if I can use up some of my random pieces of roving to make something interesting.

Next felt ball ready to be left to dry. Wanted to see what would happen if I use lots of colours.

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This is how the colours turned out after the wet felting.

Not bad but how will it turn out when I put in my purse clasp

I think I will call this my galaxy purse.

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I did ummed a bit regarding the placement and I think I got it where I wanted it.  Sometimes it is hard to tell.

Second video of my coin purse 👛 so you see the details better (I hope!)

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Needle felting - coin purses - Moss green

Well that I have made one little coin purse, why stop there.

Let me introduce you to my moss ball purse!

First time using the video here. It feels a bit unusual but it is a lot easier to present my little creations.

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I call it my moss ball purse because it happens to look like one of those marimo or moss balls.

Needle felting - coin purses - Navy blue

There is nothing like a bit of needle felting to remove negative feeling.

It is all the stabbing with the needle you see, it is very therapeutic (hehehehe)

So I caught the needle felting bug probably 7 or so years ago but lately it has been put on the back burner since I brought the sewing machine and went a little crazy with my fabric hoarding.....collecting.

I would dabble every now again but only to embellish things but this time I decided I needed a full on needle felting project.

Coin purse.

You can never have too many of them because they are so adorable!  Also it is very handy for small change that I often need for buying milk for the office or sweeties.

I found my inspiration from a youtube video.

And I thought this would it be possible to make them smaller.

Well lucky youtube came through again.

So I picked my colour and picked my poly ball size but I had to order in the purse clasps.  As always eBay comes to the rescue but I had to wait nearly 3 weeks for them to arrive.  

In the meantime, I decided to start my stumpwork embroidery which I have posted and you can read here and here.

Anyway they arrived and like a child in a candy store I made my first felt ball.  Left it over night to dry and then sewed the clasp in.

And Ta-Da here it is

One mini #coin #purse 👛 made from #felt. Although it is very fiddly to make I do enjoy making tiny things.

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Stumpwork Embroidery - Wired flowers - part two

As I found the wire I used before was a bit too thick, I decided to try the 28 gauge wire in my room.

This one was easier to manipulate around the flower outline which is great and I found it was easier to sew around it.

Of course I have already had a little practice to it looks a bit better.

and a little quicker as I got the other one outlined in now time.  However time to fill them in.

One down.....

Now lets finished this one.

Stumpwork Embroidery - Wired flowers - part one.

I have been meaning to try this type of embroidery out for ages but never got round to it.

However I finally found some time in my schedule and I'm going to give it a try.

I already had all the materials in my sewing room so starting it was not a problem.

I also brought a couple of books on it to give me an idea of how to start.  So I decided to start with a sakura or cherry blossom because I had all the floss colours.

So first thing first I need to couch some wire around the edge of the flower.

As I was sewing it down it became obvious that I should have used thinner wire.  However now it is done we will continue.

Now to actually start the embroidery.

And after a couple more days I have finished one outline.