Felt Projects

Felt is really quite affordable. I was excited to pick up some sheets at Hobby Lobby and begin my projects!

Sorry, I was pretty bad about documenting the crown taking.

Inspiration site!

Print off the patterns, pick which you like most.

Fold the felt and place pattern on fold.

Cut out an iron-on fusing in the same shape (not folded)

Sew on any embellishments to one side of your crown first.

Iron the webbing on one side.

Sew right sides together shut, leaving an opening for turning and sewing an elastic band in on one side. (Sorry, see inspiration site for better instructions :)

Turn right side out, stick other end of elastic in the opening and top stitch all around.

The end. Present the crowns to the little Kings and Queens

These were my next project. 
They are an item on etsy. That's right, no pattern for these. I just copied what I could see.

The shape of the felt rectangles made making an envelope a bit of a challenge but I tried various sizes and found one in the end that I like most.

The most fun part was to pick complementary colors for the stamps, hearts and big hearts for the inside.

An example of why I asked for pinking shears for Christmas :)

See them coming together? You can pick which shape you like best.

For hearts, fold in half and cut to ensure a simetrical heart. As if you didn't learn this doing Valentine's crafts in elementary school!

Cut out larger hearts for the "love" notes inside

Here's where it get's a bit tedious. You could probably sew this all with white thread and be done in a jiffy but I decided to go all out and sew with coordinating thread for each item. Purple heart on blue stamp, blue stamp on pink envelope and "sew" on (pun intended. Sorry)

Steps:

1 sew all the hearts on the stamps

2 Sew the stamps on the envelopes

3 sew the squiggly lines (words) on the env. fronts

4 sew the velcro on 

5 sew around the large hearts whenever that color thread is in use

6 finally, sew up the envelopes

Cut velcro for each envelope