New Design for a Lens Scruchie

These were the oldies!

 and here's the new comer!!!

Calendar 2013

And I made a Calender version of my Coin Purse Design.

 -- and I am giving these (12 PNG Files) as an early Christmas Gift.

Just go to my FB page (and please LIKE my page) 

and send me a message from there.

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Coin Purse

I'm back and it's now December.

Season of Giving is here!!!

And here's one gift idea ---  a Felt Appliqued Canvas Coin Purse

Actually, It's my first time to do a coin purse.

My best friend asked me to do some coin purse and to have some felt on its design.

They will be giving it as Christmas Gifts.

And this is what I came up.

I started with 6 designs for a sample.

1st Row : Pig, Hippo and Chicken

2nd Row : Tiger, Dog and Fox

I added Jingle Bells for Christmassy effect.

I coordinated the colors of the zippers with that of major color of the applique.

I am beginning to like zippers now... I am starting to collect some, hehehe.

 Each of the animal applique is hand sewn to the Canvas purse.

And my Best friend loved it.

Took the 6 samples, and ordered 18 more and requested for 6 new designs.

1st Row : Elephant, Cow, Penguin

2nd Row : Owl, Zebra, Monkey

Have done 34 pieces and now doing 38 pieces more and I'm loving it!!!!

You can see the individual photos of my coin purse at my FB page.

Please do take some time to visit and like my Page as I often update what I'm doing there compared here in my blog. Why FB page? For convenience sake :)

Here's my FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/WhatMadeleineLoves

Felt Project: Pencil Toppers

Felt Animal Toppers for Pencils

Lion

 Cow

 Cat

 Dog

 Bird

 Elephant

 Giraffe

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Thanks!

Felt Project: Animals 6

Owl and Whale

For the Pattern and the Tutorial of the Owl, I got it from

http://www.homelife.com.au/homes/homewares/how+to+sew+a+baby+felt+owl,5648

For the Whale, I got the pattern form Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carambolaefeltro/3923760017/

Happy Sewing!!!

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Felt Project: Animals 5

Zebra and Elephant

I found the pattern from this great blog:

http://ericacatarina.blogspot.com

Thanks a lot for sharing :)

Click on this post for her tutorial and patterns she shared:

http://ericacatarina.blogspot.com/2012/05/parte-ii-algumas-dicas-sobre-artesanato.html

Happy Sewing!!!

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Felt Project: Animals 4

Giraffe

Owl

Dogs

Parrot

Like in my previous post:

Felt Project: Animals 2

I got all their patterns from Flickr. I saved the images, laid out in paper at my desired size, printed, traced in felt, cut and sew. 

Here are the patterns:

Cow

(Just click the photo for the link)

Giraffe

(Just click the photo for the link)

Parrot

(Just click the photo for the link)

Dogs

Links of Patterns for the Dogs:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rita__diti_e_afonso/2276797107/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rita__diti_e_afonso/2277588146/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rita__diti_e_afonso/2276796723/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rita__diti_e_afonso/2276796511/in/photostream/

Have fun Sewing!!!

Felt Project: Animals 3

Octopus and Sea Horses

Purple Octopus with Lazy Daisy Eyes

Mother and Son Sea Horses

These adorable Sea Creatures were designed by

http://www.futuregirl.com

and she shared free downloadable patterns in her blog

Sigmund the Octopus 

http://www.futuregirl.com/craft_blog/2006/3/sigmund-octopus.aspx

&

Sasha the Seahorse

http://www.futuregirl.com/craft_blog/2006/4/sasha-seahorse.aspx

And I got to share my own version in Future Girl Group Pool in Flickr - 

Future Girl Octopus Stuffies & Future Girl SeaHorse Stuffies

So many cute versions in the pool , I did enjoy looking at the pics:)

What made me happy doing these is I got some great comments from Alice, the futuregirl.

So grab your felt, download the pattern and make your own version. 

Can't wait to see your versions in the Flickr Pool.

Felt Project: Animals 2

My second set of felt animals:

chick

crow 

monkey

I got all their patterns from Flickr. I saved the images, laid out in paper at my desired size, printed, traced in the felt, cut and sew. Here are the patterns:

Monkey --- pattern taken from here :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rita__diti_e_afonso/2692125865/in/photostream

Chick with the Sheep ---- pattern taken from here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24424111@N04/2318286639/in/photostream/

Crow --- sorry but I really forgot where I save this from :(

Happy Felt Sewing!!!

Felt Project: Animals --- my very first felt project

I love to go to bookstores and I can stay the whole day there.

I am not a book lover but I am very much interested in other things  book store offers --- Craft Stuff.

When I was still working in Singapore (3 years ago), Popular Bookstore in a neighborhood mall, was my favorite place to visit. I was a regular customer (even in other branches), and I am very much excited when they have a SALE, things are really affordable. 

Looking for interesting things in the bookstore, I came across this little plastic with some little square colorful fabric inside, a needle and threads. It looked interesting. The cover inside shows a cute animal with illustrated directions on how to sew. Can't resist on the cuteness of the animals, I bought all the designs, it was only SGD $1.00 each.

I read through the instructions and then I came to know that the fabric is called  FELT. 

Googled FELT, looked at FELT projects and then I fell in love with FELT!!!!

Sewing these cuties was not as easy as the illustrations. Patiently, I managed to finish!

I first posted these photos in my Friendster and Multiply site before and got good comments. 

It urged me to do more projects and collect more and more FELT (plain and printed)!!! 

Here are my Felt Animal cuties --- my first ever felt project!

And I am sharing you the pattern of the 6 animal cuties --- download it HERE.

Hope to see your cuties!!!

Happy Sewing!!!

Animals Set 02

New set of Animals :) 

Drawn basically from a Circle.

I am doodling these 25 animals for a sewing project in the future.

I just recently discovered  an easy way to make a pattern, drawing it in Inkscape.

You can simply explode it into parts arrange it into a paper, then print and cut.

 Like my animals?

Just leave a message and I will gladly give you the individual PNG files of these circle cuties.

~ UPDATE ~

You can now download my Animals!

Just click on the Links

Animals Set 1 (12 animal Doodles)
{This is from my previous blog ~~ http://whatmadeleineloves.blogspot.com/2011/10/doodles-2.html )}
Animals Set 2 (Circle Cuties)

Feel free to use! Be creative and Enjoy!!
I'd love to see your work, post a link on the comments.

Cross Stitch: Owls

Lately, I was not so busy with any major projects.

So I was kind of bored and lazy. Lazy because I also don't want to do anything big.

Maybe this is because of the weather, hehehe. It is just so hot here!

But my mind keeps on urging me that I have to do something worthwhile.

 I have been looking for sewing projects which can be done in one day.

I will only be dealing with it in just a short span of time,

so laziness will not take that urge away.

I was looking at my stash and I found my new collection of embroidery floss, 

the Anchor's Multicolored Floss.

Photo for ebay

Cross Stitching, then came to my mind.

Not much preparations to do. Cut the Aida Cloth, prepare your pattern and sew!

Before we used to buy the patterns, but now it is easy to get a free one in the net.

Thanks to all the generous people who shares their patterns.

I got my pattern from

http://stickeule.blogspot.com/2011/01/das-spiegelei-ist-fertig.html

I made a simpler version (goal: finish in one day! hehehe!), so only the owls. 

And only 6 owls, arranged in 2 rows. Each owl is stitched using different multicolored floss.

The Aida Cloth size is 5"x7". I made it in this size to fit into my empty 5R Photo Frame.

So now it is placed in our dresser!

If ever I will have my own crafting space in our new home, this would be a great decor.

"Time is free, but priceless.

You can't own it, but you can use it.

You can't keep it, but you can spend it.

Once you've lost it you can never get it back."

[ Havey MacKay ]

Meet Sheera, Gino and Pio -- new lens scrunchies design

The Lens Scrunchies Family

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Credit: Frame by iscrap : "for the love of scrapbooking"