Crafting and Sewing Review 2017

Hello all.

Things have been very busy since I last posted in October 2017 and unfortunately my blogging slipped.

However it is a new year and I will try my best to keep you up to date.

But before I do, I thought it would be be nice to summarise my year.

March 2017 - Lolita Apron Dress

April 2017 - Lolita Sack OP/Coat

May 2017 - Modern Jeogori and Hanbok

July 2017 - Qi-Lolita Overdress

August 2017 - Song Trousers, Hanfu top and Jacket plus Simple White Underskirt

September 2017 - Simple Black Underskirt, Sakura JSK

October 2017 - Stumpwork sakura and Wet Felting coin purse

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

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November 2017 - More Wet Felting Coin purse

I think I will call this my galaxy purse.

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December 2017 - Lolita Striped Brown JSK

Not too bad considering since I only sew on the weekends.

I think will continue to complete a sewing or crafting project per a month so as it is now January, I think it is time to look at my to do list and make another dress!

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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