Felt Garland

Post: Felt Garland/Cozy up with a Blanket

Main Site: Anna Maria Horner

Artist/Author: Anna Maria Horner

Registration Required?: No

Free?: Yes

Via:

Other: so pretty and festive!

Felt Food—eggs & orange slices

Post: Felt Food—eggs & orange slices

Main Site: One Crafty Mumma

Artist/Author: Melissa Goodsell

Registration Required?: No

Free?: Yes

Via:

Other:

Recycled Felt

 

From Crafting in a Green World, Skye Kilaen writes about Recycled Felt (and More) from Hart’s Fabric:

“…

EcoSpun felt is made from post-consumer recycled PET plastic bottles. It’s sold in a 72″ width for $5.99 a yard with a minimum order of one yard.

PET, in case you were wondering, is polyethylene terephthalate. PET is the plastic used to make #1 bottles. There are issues with plastic recycling, and I’d rather see fewer plastic bottles made and used in the first place, but since they exist I’m glad there are some options for using them to make new products.

Here are the color choices for EcoSpun felt: blue, yellow, gold, orange, baby pink, shocking pink, fuschia, red, ruby, baby blue, cadet blue, royal blue, navy, grape, orchid, purple, apple green, pirate green, kelly green, white, antique white, cashmere tan, cocoa brown, silver grey, charcoal, and black.

…

They also carry organic cotton and organic cotton blends (woven, stretch jersey knit, fleece, several lovely colors of canvas, and terry), hemp and hemp blends in some nice warm colors, and eco-friendly pillow forms and batting.”

Crafting a Green World is a new-to-me site that will go straight into my feed reader, and Hart’s Fabric will go right to my favorites. Hooray for wonderful new sites!

Laptop Sleeve Mega Post—updated!

click on any image below to go directly to a tutorial for the laptop sleeve/case/cozy/cover. please let me know if you are aware of a tutorial I’ve missed.

 

Pattern for sleeve above is in MAKE: [magazine] 06: Robots, Page 27

felt dandelions

Post: felt dandelion

Main Site: Echoes of a dream

Artist/Author: http://simmy.typepad.com/about.html

Registration Required?: No

Free?: Yes

Via:

Other: other tutorials here

felted scarves

Post: felted scarves

Main Site: home companion magazine

Artist/Author: Project Designed and crafted by Nancy Rosenbaum • Text by Jane Asper

Registration Required?: No

Free?: Yes

Via:

Other:

Felt Strawberries

Post: felt strawberry tutorial

Main Site: mr. monkeysuit

Artist/Author:

Registration Required?: No

Free?: Yes

Via: email

Other:

Pictorial Mega Post: Tutorials for Shoes, Slippers, Booties and Related Stuff: Part 2

click on any image below to go directly to a tutorial for the shoes, slippers, booties, etc.–please let me know if you are aware of a tutorial I’ve missed.

 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/clothshoes/pool/

http://www.wikihow.com/Sew-a-Scented-Shoe-Stuffer

http://www.marywalesloomis.com/

http://www.notebookmagazine.com/calendar/article/353/Warm-and-fuzzy

 

Pictorial Mega Post: Tutorials for Shoes, Slippers, Booties and Related Stuff: Part 1

click on any image below to go directly to a tutorial for the shoes, slippers, booties, etc.–please let me know if you are aware of a tutorial I’ve missed.

 

 

Eye patch tutorial

 

Post: LucyKate Crafts…: Eye patch tutorial

Main Site: 

Artist/Author: Amy Adams

Registration Required?: No

Free?: Yes

Via: blog.craftzine.com

Other:

Felt Fortune Cookies

 

 

Tutorial/Pattern Included? Yes, pdf. Click on link in 3rd paragraph.

Post: Felt Fortune Cookies

Main Site: CraftSanity Blog

Artist/Author: Hilary Seabolt

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

via:

Other:

beauty that moves: ipod cozy tutorial

 

Tutorial/Pattern Included? Yes

Post: beauty that moves: ipod cozy tutorial

Main Site: beauty that moves

Artist/Author:

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

via:

Other:

Mousey and his bed

 

Tutorial/Pattern Included? Yes

Post: Mousey and his bed

Main Site: http://mollychicken.blogs.com/my_weblog/

Artist/Author: http://mollychicken.blogs.com/about.html

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

via:

Other: mollychicken has numerous other way cool tutorials

Felt Monogrammed Pillow Instructions

 

Tutorial/Pattern Included?  Yes

Post: Felt Monogrammed Pillow Instructions

Main Site: http://www.jcarolinecreative.com/

Artist/Author: n/a

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Other: includes link to a stencil alphabet for monogram

Old School Acres: If the shoe fits–free baby shoes patterns

If the shoe fits, via old school acres

The majority of hits to [her] blog are from searches for baby shoe patterns.  [She has] written about this topic before but [has] been adding to [her] collection since then.

Free baby shoe/shoes patterns:
1st step shoes (Japanese) for pattern click here (pdf)
Bootie Pattern to Sew (pdf)
3-seam baby footies
Fleece Chinese slippers
Fleece booties
Tacky baby shoes
Soft-sole leather baby shoes
10-minute bootie pattern and instructions (very similar to the pattern I used for these)
30-minute bootie pattern
Heather Bailey’s Bitty Booties

Pattern Bee vintage felt shoes

Tutorial/Pattern Included? Yes, links to 11 patterns for baby shoes

Post: http://oldschoolacres.typepad.com/old_school_acres/2007/08/if-the-shoe-fit.html

Main Site: http://oldschoolacres.typepad.com/old_school_acres/

Artist/Author: Laurie

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Other: Some of Laurie’s own tutorials

Tutorial: Fresas en fieltro

 

Tutorial/Pattern Included?  Yes

Post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7950510@N06/1213896697/

Main Site: via: Tutorial: Fresas en fieltro

Artist/Author: Elisa

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Other: in Spanish, but super easy to follow from the pictures

Food Plush Toys

 

cherrymixdotcom

Tutorial/Pattern Included?  Yes

Post: http://www.cherrymix.com/diy.html

Main Site: http://www.cherrymix.com/

Artist/Author: ?

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Other: 7 different plushie patterns for ‘japanese’ food

How to make a Chuckanucka

 

How to make a Chuckanucka

Tutorial/Pattern Included? Yes, lots of pics

Post: How to make a Chuckanucka

Main Site: flickr

Artist/Author: mwboeckmann

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Other: easy and cute!

Instructables Easy Expandable Felt Tote Bag

Instructables Easy Expandable Felt Tote Bag

Tutorial/Pattern Included? Yes

Post: Instructables Easy Expandable Felt Tote Bag

Main Site: Instructables

Artist/Author: the freaking brilliant jessiep

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Other: Simply GENIUS!

How to make a felt bag at burdastyle.com

 

 

• Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes; for detailed instructions, select ‘view all steps’
• Post: how to make a felt bag
• Main Site: burdastyle
• Artist/Author: Johanna
• Registration Required? No
• Free? Yes

Marshmallow Peep Plush-torial

Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes, must download zip file

Post: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/52675065/

Main Site: deviantART

Artist/Author: *VesteNotus

Registration Required? No

Free? Yes

Hats! Hats! and More Hats!

Today I concentrate on free patterns and tutorials for hats made from fabric or felt. If you know of any I’ve not yet posted, please write a comment and I’ll include it in a new post.

verybigjen’s bottlecap pincushions

a flicker slideshow by the talented verybigjen

Cashmere Bunnies

Betz White recently gave one of these cashmere bunnies away. Alas, I was not the winner. I still love her, though!

She finds cashmere sweaters at thrift stores to use as fabric.

• instructions with lots of pictures
• downloadable pattern  (pdf)

Stuffed Pig

• Pattern
• Instructions
• from Runo at http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/