Lovely (felted) Spring Flowers blooming on your collar, hat & scarf 🌺

Hello my lovely friends 💕 How sweet of you to peek in 🤗

Spring is in the air….how excited are you? 💃🏻 The trees are showing a hue of fresh, pretty greens, Daffodils, Tulips , and Crocuses are popping up everywhere the bees are having a field day visiting all the Dandelions in the yard. I can’t wait to get to the garden center to buy all the gorgeous summer flowers! 🌷🌺🌼💐🌹🌻 Since we gotta wait a few more weeks to do that, why don’t we make our own ‘Flower Garden’ to wear? 😍 Today I’m going to show you how…it’s really quite simple. 

Here’s what you need 

~1. Wool fluff/cloud/unspun wool in your favorite colors 

~2. A Needle felting tool (I use the one with 5 needles)

~3. A Needle felting base 

~4. Pin back blanks (optional)

~5. Needle and thread (optional)

Alright….let’s make some flowers 😀

~~~Start by picking out a small chunk of ‘fluff’, and arrange it on the base (I like to use the curly bits for the first layer) 

~~~Take your felting tool, and start punching (great stress reliever 😂) 8 -10 times should be enough for now. Add a second layer, felt some more…add as many layers as you like. *If you don’t punch too often between layers, you can take it apart easier- in case you don’t like the finished flower 😊) 

 Once you’re happy with the look you can really go to town with your felting tool! Just remember- the more you punch, the flatter your flower will be. 

~~~Now sew your flower onto the pin back blank. A cute button can add a little extra pizzazz.

Ready to spruce up your coat, a headband, a plain hat 

           
If pins are not your thing, or you had so much fun that you made a lot of flowers, you can use them to brighten up a scarf . In that case you can skip the sewing-on-the-pin-back part, and instead felt the flowers right onto the scarf.

Cute, huh? 😍

Alrighty ~ this is it from me (for now) 🤗

I hope you found some inspiration – please share your ideas and photos with the rest of us! 

See you soon  💕

~ Tina xoxo 

Pendants from the loom – but first – this….

Hello and ‘Good Morning’ my friends! ☺ Happy ‘National 2nd hand wardrobe day’!                                                                                                                                                                          Are you a thrifty shopper? I am, and I love it! I don’t like malls, department stores never have what I’m looking for…unlike 2nd hand stores and Thrift shops! A good friend of mine is the proprietor of a beautiful resale shop, and I never leave her boutique without a bag full of beautiful ‘like new’ clothes! If you’re ever in Weston, Missouri, make sure to stop in ‘My Sister’s Closet’ for some amazing finds. Your pocketbook (and your hubby) will thank you! 😁

This is a coat I got there last year…I show you this, because it comes with a funny story. The first time I wore it, a lady asked me where I got it. When she heard it was from a resale shop, knowing there was not going to be another one, she gave me her card and asked me to call her when I’m ready to sell it to her!                                        I haven’t called her yet! LOL

In Jewelry News…    My ‘Autumn Line’ is still in the early planning stages ~ but there’s one thing I can tell you already…there will be handwoven ‘Pendants of the Loom’. Let me show you what I have so far

 

I repurposed my bead~loom, because it’s just the right size for pendants. The warp is cotton, and now I’m experimenting with different yarns for the weft, or filling.

Stay tuned…(hopefully) soon I can show you the finished necklace!

Until then please take care, and I hope you’ll come back for more!

Love                                                                                                                                                                                              ~Tina xoxo

Woven Wallhanging ~ Part II

?Hello ~ me again! 🙂                                                                                                                                                                     I’m very happy to report that my weaving (the one on the canvas frame – see previous post) is finished and hanging on my bedroom wall. The finishing touches took a little longer than expected. I added the pompom-fringe (my favorite part! – I told you I love fringe! I think I’m a little obsessed with it! 😉 ) and wrapped the top bar in yarn. Now…without further ado ….here she is!

 Did I tell you that it’s 2′ x 5′?

Here are some detail photos….

The pompom – fringe! 😀

That’s it for today! Please come back soon for more creative news!

Tata for now! Thanks for reading!

~Tina xoxo

WELCOME!

Hello and ‘Welcome’ to my blog! Thanks for stopping in, reading. I hope you enjoy my pictures, thoughts, and writings ~ it’s going to be a fun ride!

Since we’re lucky enough here in Kansas to enjoy spring~like weather from now until … well, at least for 10 days, then we’ll see … I brought out the sewing machine and made some nice and cool cotton ‘Infinity Scarves’. They embellish every outfit, keep the (sometimes) cool breeze from chilling you to the bone, are reversible, and – of course – machine washable!

The pictured scarf and other ones like it, can be found at ‘Kristabella’ in Weston, MO, and in my online store

https://scottsmarketplace.com/shop/kristabella/