Felt Christmas Ornament No. 2

I’ve made a second ornament.  I’m two for two.  Go me!

This is what I have copied – the link for the instructions is below.

http://www.favecrafts.com/Ornaments/Fuzzy-Felt-Snowman-Ornament

And this is mine:

I didn’t intentionally copy the background colour!  That was actually a nice foresty green in real life.  Funny how the camera washes out the colour.

I haven’t pressed it (which I’m not going to given that it’s acrylic felt) but I will put some heavy books on it to smoosh it down a bit.

I’m trying to improve my blog photography by including some arty farty shots like you see on the good blogs.  I’m not having much luck.  Perhaps it’s the kind of thing that you either have or you haven’t.  I shall persevere though, perhaps it will improve with time and practice.

How have you been spending your day?  Mine is quiet – my children are at a playdate and it’s wet and rainy outside, just the way I like it.  I’ve stitched while I watched some television.  There are worse ways to spend the afternoon.

Suzie

Felt Christmas Ornament No. 1

I know Christmas is officially over, but bear with me.

One of my big, clever ideas last year was to do one felt Christmas ornament a week, so that by the end of the year I would have a lovely collection of felt ornaments.

Didn’t happen.  Of course it didn’t, you know me well enough by now.  But this year I think I may give it a go.  No grand statements (that should be my catchphrase for the year, not more productivity less procrastination!) but I’m at least starting as I mean to go on.

I have used a lovely tutorial that was offered at Bugs and Fishes blog, by following this link:

http://bugsandfishes.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/felt-ornament-how-to-3-christmas.html

and once all the little people had gone to bed, I sat and quickly stitched this:

It was remarkably easy, though I think one the next one I will use less strands in my embroidery threads, it kind of looks chunky.

But it fits very well on the tree:

and in a larger view:

There it is, right next to the giant cat sized hole.  We are missing a whole branch.  Lord knows where I’ll find that.

Hope your day went well.  We are sweltering here on a very hot day.

Suzie