Felt Friday Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

(re-blogged)

It’s Seuss’ Birthday and you’re in for a treat – in honor of a guy we never will meet.

His use of color amazing, his words quite astounding.

Teaching lessons so important I don’t mind expounding.

So pull up a chair, grab your coffee and afghan and join in a felt celebration of the man!

First up is this Cat in the Hat Vignette, felt sheets in White Lipstick and Cadet.

Lipstick

Cadet

The Lorax helped the Oncler reach an epifany felts in ,Hot Pink, Banana Cream, Limeaide, Butterscotch and Tiffany

Hot Pink

Banana Cream Pie

Limeaide

Butterscotch

Tiffany

Fishy colors so cheery and bright next to felts in Lemon, Sparrow, Big Apple, Limeaide and White

Lemon Meringue

Sparrow

Big Apple

Limeaide

White

An adventurous team in Honeydew, Bubblegum and Banana Cream. Adding to the hullabaloo Forget me Not, Orange Juice, and Ice felt join the crew.

Honeydew

Bubblegum

Banana Cream Pie

Forget Me Not

Orange Juice

Ice

Now I am done

I hope that you laughed

all felt can be found at American Felt and Craft.

Scrappy Fall Felt Candle Mat.

This super easy candle mat is a great way to use up those fall colored felt scraps just add a pumpkin scented candle and it makes a great hostess gift this Thanksgiving.

You will need:

White felt 1/4 yard

Scraps of felt in fall colors

used here:

Gold Nugget

Fresh Cut Grass

Autumn Leaves

Beet

Courtyard

Hot Chocolate

Tomato Soup

Banana Cream Pie

coordinating thread

Brown embroidery thread

Step 1: 

Cut 2-  12″ circles from the white felt. Feel free to adjust this to whatever size suits your needs or make it really easy and just trace a plate. Set one circle aside.

Step 2:

Begin cutting random blobs from scraps of fall colored felts.  Place and pin at top, bottom and sides of one of your white felt circles. Try to make each “tree” a little different from the others.  Fill in the rest of the space and pin when the placement looks right.

Step 3:

Using brown embroidery thread create tree trunks and branches with a quick running stitch along each tree.

Step 4:

Once all the branches and trunks have been stitched begin stitching down your trees with coordinating thread.

Step 5: 

Once all the trees have been sewn into place, stack white felt circles together and trim any uneven edges before overcast stitching them together with white thread.

Enjoy!

Check out our other fall themed felt crafts:

Super easy felt napkin rings 

Fall Garland

Happy Crafting!

Andie

Felt Finger Puppet Theater

Check out the latest free pattern from the insanely talented Stephanie at Imagine Our Life!

What a fun and amazing work of art not to mention a great toy for all those holiday car trips!

The whole piece is supported on folding struts which allow it to fold flat to fit in quiet books or just for easy storage and travel!

I just love the flying dragon!

Check out the full and stunningly detailed tutorial over at Imagine Our Life

Happy Crafting

~Andie

* All images via Imagine Our Life.

No Sew Wool Felt Bows, Bowties and Shoe Clips

These no sew felt bows are super easy scrap busters.

 If you are a Pintrest fan (and lets face it who isn’t) you have probably seen this floating around.

Source: cdn.duitang.com via Pinterest

Super cool right!? I immediately knew I needed to make a few billion of these for my newest niece.

The only problem, no templates!

I tried to remake theirs but in the end I just ended up starting from scratch.

  Templates to make bows are at the end of this post

To make the hair bands I measured the “babies” head deducted about a 1/2″ and hot glued stretchy soft elastic together.

And then hot glued the bows to the seam on the headband.

To create the matching bow ties for I made the bow a larger size (templates below) and used Shoe Clips to attach them. Shoe clips ended up being perfect for this project because they hold tight on the thinnest fabric, don’t damage the fabric and have a smooth back so they won’t irritate little ones.

After I completed the bow I simply hot glued the open clip to the back of the larger bows.

Make sure the glue sets before you close them.

After making  both a small and large size of every color I could think of  I had to make some shoe clips too.

For these I used the small bow

Then I made small bows with  some long ribbon shapes.

 Wouldn’t they be a fun something blue?

A ton of these can be made in no time at all with whatever Felt scraps or ribbon you have on hand.

You will also need

Shoe clips

Hot Glue gun

Soft elastic for baby headbands, I prefer the lightweight lace elastic kind.

And of course the template!

Stop by the store to see all of  the over 100 colors we carry!

Happy Crafting

Andie