Felt Session 5: Felt Projects

So now that you know about all the different types of felt out there, how to care for your felts, and how to do some of the basic hand stitching you're going to need to know in order to make some felt projects, let's make some felt projects. So we have a bunch of different projects that are available as downloads with this class. You'll get patterns for all of them, but I do want to highlight just a few of them and give you some tips for construction. So the first ones we're going to talk about are these fun felt fabric baskets and these can be used for everything from storing your thread conditioner and your thimbles. If you are somebody who likes to use binder clips maybe instead of pins, you can have a little bowl of these.

And depending on the stiffness or thickness of felt that you are using is going to depend on how sturdy your fabric basket is and how much it's going to withhold in terms of what you put in it. So this one was made with the thinnest, the craft or one-millimeter felt, this one was made with the two-millimeter felt, and this one was also made with the two-millimeter. So these ones are a little bit sturdier, but you can see because of the design, this one still stands up well and you can still put things in it. So there are three different pattern shapes that I've provided for these little fabric bowls, but after you see how they come together, you can really pick a bunch of different shapes, or make up your own shape, or make it an odd shape, and still turn it into a fun little bowl. So we have one that starts as a square, we have an octagon, and we have a hexagon.

So these pattern pieces will look something like this when you download them, and when you download them, you'll be cutting out around the solid line on the outside edges and then all of these little dotted lines which end with a little dot here at the end, these are just where you need to cut into. So you're going to cut all the way around the outside edge and then cut into the dot here on all of these edges. So that's how this shape works. On our square, so this is actually this one here, rather than cutting out a big rectangle and then cutting squares out of each of those corners, you can go ahead and just cut out this shape. And then same thing with this one, you're going to cut out again on this outer thick line and then make your little snips into the dots.

So the dotted lines are also cutting lines. So I have one cut out here so you can see that this is what it's going to look like once it is cut out and I've already done my little snips down into each one of these sections, so it's ready to go. So again, this is one of those acrylic felts. It's actually one that has a little bit of glitter to it. And because it has this glitter coating to it, it's a little bit stiffened, but it's not quite as stiff as the actual stiffened felt.

But to make this bowl, all you need to do is actually fold your fabric right sides together and stitch. So you need to decide what is going to be your right side. So the right side, for me, is always going to be the inside of the bowl. For reference, that's just what's going to be. So if you want the inside of your bowl to be the glittery side, this is going to be your right side.

If you want the outside of your bowl to be glittery, then this would be your right side. But to make this, all you're going to do is take and fold all of these fabric snips that you just made right sides together and then you're going to stitch. So this class has been focusing on hand stitches, so if you are going to do that, I'm going to show you what hand stitch I would use for this. However, if you do not want to do hand stitching and you just want a really, really quick project and you want to machine stitch, you can definitely just machine stitch a straight stitch right along this edge and you're just stitching down to where you've clipped, so you can do that as well. But for me, I already have my thread ready.

I have done, again, a double strand of thread and I'm using contrasting color so you can see it. You can decide to do this technique that I'm going to show with a blanket stitch and use that contrasting thread if you want that extra decorative element, or if you're using this red felt, pick a red thread and it's going to blend right in. So the first thing I want to do is I already have tied a knot in my thread and I want to hide that knot somewhere in my fabric here. So rather than coming through from the backside, I'm actually going to insert my needle in between the two layers and bring it out towards me. That way, I can kind of hide my knot down inside just a little bit.

Now I'm going to take my first stitch. So if you remember back to the section where we did our blanket stitch, you always want to take one straight whip stitch first as sort of your starter stitch for your blanket stitch. So I'm going to take that one here, and now I'm just going to work my way up the side. I'm going to insert my needle from the wrong side, bring it to the right, right being what's towards me here, so the underside to the top side, bring it up, take a stitch until I have my loop of thread left and then bring my needle through that loop and pull tight. Now, if you want this to be just a construction stitch and you're really just trying to hold these edges together, you're going to want to be stitching really, really close to this edge, like a 16th of an inch.

Whereas for me, I want to be able to see my stitches, I want to have that little extra decoration, so I'm going to come down a little further, about an eighth of an inch away from the edge. That way, I can actually see the stitches. So again, I'm just going to do a blanket stitch all the way along this edge. So I'm bringing it from the underside to the upper side, pulling until I have that loop of thread, inserting my needle through that loop, and pulling it tight. And it's going to create this nice length of thread all the way along the edge of my project.

I do want to make sure that if I am meaning to have my stitches seen, so I'm using this darker thread, that I want to try and keep my stitches fairly even. That way, it looks nice right along the edge. Once I get to the end, I want to make sure that I'm doing my last stitch right at the very tippy top of these pieces here. So what I don't want, I don't want to stop right where I'm at because then these little corners are going to be left unstitched, and because they're such small pieces, small little points, if I don't stitch them together, there's just the chance that they're going to get distorted or your basket is going to sort of start falling apart. So make sure your last stitch ends right at the very top.

Go ahead and take a blanket stitch. Now you need to do a knot, so to do a knot here at the end, we're essentially going to do our straight whip stitch, the same one we did to start here at the end, but I'm just going to take a stitch directly on top of the previous one I did, go ahead and pull until I have a loop of thread, insert my needle into that loop, and pull tight. I like to do this twice and I'm going to do them directly on top of one another, so that way they just look like there's only one stitch there, and pull tight. Now I have my edge stitched. I know it's not going to come undone, and I have a nice knot tied.

Now, I do want to kind of bury this thread end a little bit before I clip it because I don't want to see any of this thread here, so what I'm going to do is take my needle and I'm going to insert it back down along the edge of my pieces I just stitched together and I'm essentially hiding my thread, I'm sort of weaving my needle in and out of all these stitches I did right along the outside edge. So since I already have thread showing there, I'm really just adding to it. So I'm going to go about halfway down, so I went four blankets stitches down, and then I can bring my needle out like so, and now I'm going to pull it tight to where it kind of bends in the edge of it just a little bit, go ahead and pull it tight. Go ahead and clip your thread off and now straighten it back out. And now when you do that, you have really hidden that thread right along the edge and you don't see it at all.

So you're going to do the exact same thing on every single one of these snips you made, and you can see the more of them you stitch together, as you stitch all the way around, your little dish here is going to form just by stitching those pieces together. Very simple stitching, it's just right sides together, stitch right along the edge. The further in you stitch, the more it's going to take in of your piece and the smaller your little dish is going to be. So I am about an eighth of an inch away from the edge. Again, if you've decided to do this by machine or you're using maybe the back stitch and you're coming in further, if you stitch in further, so I'll just put a pin rather than doing the stitching, but say you stitch in further and you're instead about a quarter of an inch away from the edge, as you go around, your basket is going to get smaller and it's going to stand up more.

So if you decide you want more of a deep, little dish rather than one that fans out more, you can just stitch further in on each side and it's going to bring those edges in. So that's how you're going to construct all of your baskets no matter which one of these patterns you decide to download or if you want to try all of them, you have three different shapes to pick from. Again, you have a hexagon, an octagon, and your square shape and they're all done the exact same way, just folding it up, stitching right sides together, and doing the stitch of your choice across the outside edge. Again, my stitch of choice is always that blanket stitch because I like to have that little extra decoration, but you can do your back stitch or even your whip stitch if you prefer that as well. Another really common project, a really fun project to make using felt are pin cushions.

So there are several different pin cushion patterns that you can download along with this class, the first one being a fun little house. So this one is the one that has the most pieces, so I'm just going to grab this pattern in here so you can see what this one is going to look like when you download it. But it has very easy pieces, but just a lot of pieces. So obviously, you have the front and back of your house, you have the sides, you have the bottom, the roof, and then all of these are the doors and windows, so these are ones that you can customize if you want, but if you want to make it that looks exactly like this, these are all of the pieces that you would use and then it's just stuffed with fiberfill and then obviously it stands up. You can put pins in the little roof, you can put them all on the front of the house, you can do any number of things with your little house pin cushion.

So again, this is stuffed with fiber fill, and this is made with that two-millimeter, thicker craft felt. With this pin cushion in particular, you want to be using the stiffer craft felt because you want to make sure that your house still looks like a house. If you weren't using a really, really stiff felt, it's actually just going to, once you stuff it, sort of balloon out into this odd shape, and while it may still slightly resemble a house, it's not going to look exactly like you want it to. So use that stiffer felt, the thicker felt, or even that stiffened felt for this fun pin cushion here. Another pin cushion option that you are going to be able to download is this fun little hedgehog guy here, and this is what this pattern looks like here.

So this one is down here at the bottom, this is our little hedgehog here, and he doesn't need as many pieces, it's really just the pieces that make up his sides. He has a bottom right here and then, of course, some fun little ears. So I'm going to show you how to stitch him in a minute because there's some fun, little faux top stitching effects that take place right here. But the other one available on this page is another really fun, simple, easy pattern, and that is of course, a spool of thread because you have a bunch of these in your sewing room already, so you might as well have a pin cushion version, and this is just made from a simple rectangle and four squares. So this is another fun, quick, and easy one is this thread spool pin cushion here.

So again, all these patterns, you can download with this class. But so for this guy here, these are all of his little pattern pieces, what they're going to look like once you cut them out. So here is the bottom, we have the sides, and we have what makes up his face, and so I'm going to show you how to stitch together these two pieces here because I'm going to stitch them right sides together and then I'm going to open them up and do sort of a faux top stitching effect. That way, it makes it look like, if you look really close at this guy, you can see that it like this part stands out more than his face, which if you look at an actual hedgehog, that's kind of what they're supposed to look like, so we're trying to make it look as realistic here as possible, and so I'm gonna show you how to sort of create that effect. So these are the two pieces you're going to need.

Go ahead and get your thread and your needle threaded, tie a knot at the end of your thread, and now we're going to stitch these two pieces together. So if you are familiar with any other kind of sewing, you always put your pieces right sides together. With this felt, it looks the same on both sides, so just make sure you just look at the picture or look at the guy and know that this is the right side. If it was flipped the other way, it would actually be for the other side of our little pin cushion, but just know that they're going to go together like this. So I like to fold the smaller piece and I have it on the top, so they're going to be right sides together.

Now, we're dealing with two curved edges here, so you're going to see they're not going to line up perfectly as they would if they were straight edges, but that's okay. All we want to do is make sure that one side or one edge is lined up first and then we will adjust it as we move along. So for this one here, for this first initial construction stitch, this is one where I mentioned if there's ever going to be any sort of wear or pull on the stitches, you want to use a back stitch. Well, you don't think of there being wear on a pin cushion, there is because we've stuffed it and we've stuffed it pretty good, so we want to make sure none of that stuffing comes out. So because of that, we're going to do a back stitch.

So again, for a back stitch, we're going to start a little ways in from our edge. Go ahead and pull tight. We're going to go back first, rock our needle to the side, come out just to the left of where our thread did. Again, and we're going to go back first, inserting our needle right at the end of the last, previous stitch we took, again, I'm rocking the needle to the side and bringing it out. So I'm doing this stitch, it's about an eighth of an inch away from the edge, and that's always a good sort of hand stitch seam allowance to use when you're putting these projects together.

And as we stitch along, we want to just readjust so our edges line up. So you can see, because of the curved edges, this doesn't line up here with this, so after every stitch I take, I just want to be slightly pulling this one up so they align. So really only worry about the edges aligning that is directly in front of what you are stitching. So again, I've done a stitch, now I can readjust my edges. Do another stitch, again, readjust my edge.

And you're just kind of making small, little adjustments after every stitch, and what you're going to find, what's going to happen is this is going to sort of curve up toward you, most likely. It could go away from you, depending on how much you're pulling your thread, but it should be curving, that's what you want it to be doing. It needs to curve because you are pulling the fabric edges to align. We're just going to keep taking stitches, readjusting, and continue our back stitch all the way down. Once we get to the end, you want to go ahead and tie a knot using the same knot tying method we just did with our bowl, but you don't want to cut your thread yet.

So I have one more stitch here, ending right at the end. Go ahead and pull my thread out and I'm just going to tie a knot. So right here at the end, I'm going to go ahead and just take a little whip stitch over that edge, pull until there's a loop, put my needle through that loop and pull tight, leaving your thread. Now, we're still going to be using our thread here, so what's going to happen now is you're going to open up your pieces. And normally, if you were doing any kind of sewing where you were going to then press your seam, you'd be pressing your seam allowance to one side or pressing it open, but you can see that both sides look fairly puffy because of how our seam is stitched in the back.

So what you want to do is actually take your seam that you just stitched and you want to fold it towards the darker fabric, right like so. So you can see it's going to pull in a little bit and create this little lip right along this edge, and that's what we want. Now, normally you would be able to just take this over to your iron and press it, but again, this is acrylic felt and not only will it not press, that pressing is not going to stay as soon as we stuff it. So what we need to do is essentially top stitch this. So again, I'm folding that seam allowance back towards the body of our little hedgehog here.

Go ahead and bring my needle up through all of these layers, so it's going to be three layers of felt that you are stitching through, so it's going to feel a little bit stiffer than what you just did, but go ahead and bring your needle up through to the right side, making sure that that seam allowance is folded to the back. We're just going to do a very, very small running stitch right along this edge. So when you insert your needle back down through all the layers, make sure you're going straight down and that you're catching all of that seam allowance on the backside. It can be really easy to accidentally miss that because it is only an eighth of an inch thick, so just make sure that as you are taking your stitch back down, you're inserting your needle straight down and doing that stitch through all of those seam allowance layers. So I'm just taking small, teeny-tiny, little stitches, that way they're invisible on the top, but I'm spacing them out fairly wide.

So I'm going about every quarter of an inch or so, bringing my needle up through all those layers, taking a teeny, teeny-tiny, little stitch and going back down, right like so. And as I work my way across, I may need to check on the other side that my seam allowance is folded in the direction I want it to, and then go ahead and continue taking those tiny, little stitches. So we're just making our little hedgehog pin cushion look a little bit more finished, a little bit more professional because it has this nice, little top stitched edge, and we don't have that puffy seam allowance. Just go all the way up, I'll do a couple more, and then you'll just tie a knot the same way we've been tying all knots, just by looping your thread end through your last stitch. So I'm gonna flip it around 'cause it's a little bit easier to see, do my last stitch, again, it's a teeny-tiny, little stitch, and now I can tie a knot.

Now, you could just tie the knot right here on the edge because this is going to be another seam where you will be able to hide it or you can just flip it over and actually tie that knot through just this seam allowance here so that way you don't see it at all. So go ahead and make a loop, put your needle through the loop and pull tight, and then go ahead and do that a couple times, and trim your thread. So then you would continue your assembly on the other side just the same way. So go ahead and do your back stitch so it's nice and secure, then fold your seam allowance under and do this top stitching. When you're putting your two sides together, there is a couple different ways that you can do your stitching.

I actually went ahead and just did a whip stitch right along the edge, still with right sides together, and then I wasn't worried about this seam necessarily being puffy because it's it's where the most stuffing is, so I didn't have to do any extra decorative top stitching or anything on there. Same thing when I was putting the bottom of my little hedgehog in place. I just did that same whip stitch, of course, leaving an opening so that I could stuff it, and then whip stitching it closed. The other fun little thing with this guy that I wanted to show you how to do was how to make sure his ears stand up and they don't lay flat. So this is what the little ear pattern piece looks like when you cut it out.

It's pretty small and you can really put it anywhere you want on the front of your little hedgehog here. But the one thing that you want to do is actually take a little pleat in this or a little gather in this so that it stands up. So to do that, again, go ahead and get your needle threaded and tie a knot, and then just right in the middle, go ahead and create a fold. So you still want to make sure that you have, you know, one end is on this side, one end is on the other side, and you're just creating a tiny, little fold. So I'm actually going to do this in this big piece so you can see it a little better, but the fold just looks like this on a much smaller scale.

So you're just creating a little fold, do that right here in the middle, and then all you need to do is secure this with a couple stitches. So you want to go ahead and hide your knot anywhere in between the layers of that fold, just kind of push your knot down in there, and then just take a little whip stitch and immediately tie a knot, and I'm just going to do that twice, right like so. And now your ear has a little bit of more dimension to it, it's got a nice, cute little curve to it, and now you're ready to just stitch that right onto your piece. So before you stitch your little ear onto your hedgehog, just make sure you make that fun little stitch to give it a little bit of extra dimension. So those are the pin cushion patterns that you can download and make as part of this class.

Again, we have our fun little house, you have your hedgehog, or of course, you can make your spool of thread. All of these come together really quick and easy using back stitch, or running stitch, or using a blanket stitch if you want to have some decoration. So those are the pin cushions. Another fun thing that you can make using felt is some sort of accessory. So whether you want one for yourself, or maybe you have a little girl or somebody you know has a little girl and you want to make fun little hair bows, you can make little accessories out of felt, glue them right onto little clips, or you can even put them onto little pins.

They can be fun, little brooches, you can put them on a little chain, make little necklaces, so there's a bunch of different things you can do with fun, little felt accessories. So I'm going to show you just two of them that are pretty quick and easy, and they are flowers and bows. So with the flower, this one here, all you're going to need is a length of felt, a rectangle of felt. So for me, this just came from one of my craft felt sheets. So those are either 11 or 12 inches, depending on the one that you're buying, and, of course, this one here is about two and a half inches wide, and that's all you need to make this fun little flower here.

I'm going to go ahead and rethread my needle 'cause I ran out of thread from the last one, but you will just need a length of thread and preferably one that is the same color or as close to the same color as your felt as you can. I'm obviously going to continue using my dark gray thread so you have a better chance of seeing my little stitches, but go ahead and get your length of thread, tie a knot. Now, what we're doing going to do is we're going to take our rectangle of felt here and just fold it in half. Very, very easy. If you want to pin it, you can, you can bring in some little binder clips, just folding it right in half.

And now we're going to do a running stitch, so that was the very first hand sewing stitch you learned in a previous section, it's the one that goes the quickest and easiest. Now, we're essentially basting these layers together, so you can use a fairly wide or very long running stitch. So I'm gonna bring my needle up from the underside to the top side and I'm just going to take a stitch. So I'm going about every 1/4 inch to 3/8 of an inch. I'm going to load several stitches onto my needle all at the same time.

You can't load as many stitches on your needle with felt as you can with something thinner like cotton because it takes up more space on your needle, but you can still go several stitches at a time. We're just going to go right along this edge all the way down. So obviously, you can see my stitches pretty good because my thread is a high contrast color, But if you're using the same color of thread as your felt, you wouldn't really be able to see these at all and they would blend right in. So just continue all the way down doing this running stitch right on the edge. This is another one that if you wanted to do this part on a machine, you could.

Just set your machine to do a straight stitch, do a basting stitch, which does elongate that stitch length and it would be quick and easy, but the next part, you do have to do using your hand sewing needle and thread, so you might as well get some practice doing some hand sewing. So come all the way down here to the very end, take your last stitch. Before you tie your knot, make sure that your tube you've essentially created lays flat. So just stretch it back out if you need to, like so, and then go ahead and tie a knot. I'm just going to take a stitch right over the edge, pull until I have that loop, put my needle through the loop, and pull tight.

You really only need to do one knot and that's more than enough to hold it. Now we need to come in with a pair of scissors, or a rotary cutter, a pair of snips, and you need to make lots of little cuts all along this edge. So this is what our final little flower looked like, so you can see my cuts are about a quarter of an inch apart. The distance between your cuts, how wide of strip you leave, determines how wide this is, so that's up to you as to how wide you want to make them. I like about a quarter of an inch to 3/8 of an inch, but you could go much smaller if you wanted to.

But you're just going to come right along this edge and you're cutting down to within about an eighth of an inch of your running stitch, so you want to make sure that you're not cutting all the way down, you don't want to be cutting through all of that stitching you just did. You're going to have to go back and either start over or reinforce those stitches, but just cut all the way down. This is a time when if you have a pair of scissors, if you have hand issues, or arthritis, or things like that and this seems like something that would not be very fun to do, you can get spring loaded scissors so that way you're only having to do the squeezing motion and it sort of springs right back, and is ready for your next cut. But just go all the way along the edge, make all of your little snips, and now we need to turn this into a flower. So we still have the edge where our thread is and this is where we're going to start, and you're simply going to roll this up.

So roll like two or three times and then hold it with your non-dominant hand and then take some stitches through all of the rolls. So you can see you have a nice little spiral here, our thread should be coming out of the center of it. So just take a stitch, bring it to the outside edge on one side, take another stitch and go all the way through all of the spiral and bring it out on the other side, right like so, and now go ahead and roll a little more. So always do, say, two or three rolls and then go ahead and take a stitch. You don't want to try and do the whole thing without taking those stitches through the middle because odds are you're going to accidentally drop it or it's going to come unrolled a little bit and then you're just going to have to start over.

So just do two or three little rolls and then take a stitch. If you find that you are not able to push your needle all the way through all of these layers with just your finger, this is a time where if you want to bring in your thimble, go ahead and grab your thimble and use that to push your needle through all those layers, but just continue to roll. So obviously, the longer the strip that you started with, the bigger your flower is going to be. So my strip was as long as my craft sheet was, so that's the biggest piece that I could cut from that, but you could seam together multiple pieces if you wanted, or like I mentioned in the very, very beginning, you can actually buy felt on the roll, which would give you a very, very long length of felt and you could make a ginormous flower. So once you have finished rolling it, just make sure you're going all the way through all those layers, just go back and forth a couple of times.

After you've done that, just go ahead and tie a little knot, again, the same knot that we've been tying. And of course, you can see my stitches here on the outside edge, but if you were using a different thread, you wouldn't be able to, so don't worry about that. Bury your needle somewhere in the middle, like so, pull it through, pull it tight, and then go ahead and clip that thread. That way, you're sort of burying that thread end down into all that spiral. Then turn it over, flatten it back out, and just like that, you have a really fun, really cute little flower.

So you can see that these ones, I cut a little thinner, there's more of them, it's a little more full, these ones were a little thicker, so very easy to sort of change up the look of your flower. So this is a fun, quick and easy one to make, again, if you want to do like a little hair bow or some kind of accessory. Speaking of bows, if you want to make a bow, this is another pattern that you can download with this class and this just takes three simple, little pieces. So you have a large rectangle, you have a small rectangle, and then you have a rectangle that has a little triangle cut out here at the end. To start with this, we are going to take our thread.

I'm going to go ahead and tie a knot here at the end of my thread. And the first thing we need to do is to sew the ends of our largest rectangle together, so right like this. This is one that doesn't necessarily have to be sewn together super tight, there's going to be no real pull on this at all, so I'm just going to do that same running stitch that we just did with our little flower. Go ahead and bring it all the way through to the end. Tie a knot, right like so, and clip your thread.

You don't have to worry about hiding the ends of this thread yet just because of how it comes together. Now you want to open it up so that your seam that you just made comes to the center of your tube that you've created. So you kind of create a circle here, flatten it out so your seam is in the center like this, and then this is going to become this part of the bow. So in order for that to happen, we're going to wrap this around it but we also want to include our little bottom section here. So this one doesn't actually need any kind of stitching, you just need to do a fold.

So the same kind of fold that we did when we were creating the dimension in our little hedgehog ear, you want to do the same kind of fold, right like this, you're just kind of accordion folding it in the middle and then fold it down, so you're just creating the bottom half of your bow, so just fold it down. And we're going to do the same sort of gather or fold here with our top piece, so I like to just put my finger in the middle and then squish together the top and the bottom. Go ahead and add the little tie that we've just made, and then you're going to wrap this little rectangle around the center. So by design, this little rectangle piece is way bigger than you need it to be, but it's because it gives you something to hold on to here in the back. So just hold on to the ends of our small rectangle, make adjustments to your bow as needed, so I would probably pull this side out a little more and make sure everything looks the way I want it to.

Then when it does, while you're still sort of pinching together your small rectangle in the back, just do a little back stitch right along this edge and then trim off this excess fabric. So you can see that's what I did here. I did it in a thread so you can't even see it, but once I did the stitch, just trimmed it down and then you have a fun, cute little bow. So bows and flowers are great little accessories that you can add to pretty much anything you want to make. Another fun thing that you can make out of felt, which you're going to get a bunch of different patterns you can download with this class, are ornaments.

Ornaments are made out of felt all the time whether you're making Christmas ornaments and you want to hang them on your tree, but you can also make ornaments for other holidays as well. So a couple of the Christmas ornaments you're going to get patterns for are things like little peppermints here. You can make this into ornaments to hang on your tree, you can make it into a little bunting, you can do a bunch of things with that. Also, a little snow globe. So here's one, again, you can make it as just a standalone one that you want to hang on your tree, or you can make a double version of it and then that way you can actually stuff it if you wanted to and give it a little bit more dimension.

So Christmas is obviously a fun one to make ornaments for and you'll get patterns for these. Halloween is another one that's really fun time to make little ornaments. So this is a little pumpkin you can make, again, hang it somewhere, turn it into a bunting or a garland, things like that. Easter is another fun one and you can make sort of some felt ornaments for whether. Growing up, we sometimes had this little Easter tree that we would put little decorations on, you can do that, or again, if you want to make a garland or things like that, just some extra little decoration, you have a little option for that.

And of course, another little fun one you can make a little felt ornaments or decorations for is Valentine's day, too. So we have a little love note and a little sugar cookie that you can add some stuffing to, make two layers, add a little stuffing, blanket stitch around the edge, and you have lots of fun decor. So whether you want to make something out of felt that you can actually use, like a basket or a pin cushion, or you want something that's going to be a little bit more of an accessory, like a flower or a bow, or, of course, you want to make some decorations, you now know how to stitch all of those things together, you know what felt to choose in order to make them, you know how to care for them, and of course, you're going to get patterns for all of these things. So I hope you give them all a try and I hope you really enjoy them.