Canning Jar of Sunflowers with Flag Quilt

This small quilt I made with wool applique. The design is from Heart to Hand Design (by Kathi Campbell). I love sunflowers, so I had to give this one a go.

The applique is wool felt. The background, border and binding is cotton fabric.

I love text fabric like the background, especially a more subtle text like this as it makes it look a bit more old fashioned like ti looks faded. I should have bought a bolt of that background fabric, lol! I don't even know where I got it.

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Wool Felt Brooch

I recently taught a class at the local library for making an easy felt embroidered ornament. Next month I will be teaching a super fast and easy last-minute gift project to make: a fabric covered button. I will bring a variety of colorful fabric for the people taking the class to choose from and they will cover a button in fabric and then if they want to make the button into a magnet, they can hot glue the magnet to the back of the button. These buttons have a flat back surface, not a shank (which is for sewing them on). Or they can just glue the button onto anything they desire.

So I combined the 2 class projects into one, and created a felted brooch instead of an ornament, then glued the button I created in the center (no magnet) of the felt flower. I wrote a name on the button (wrote it on the fabric before it became a button) and gave it to the librarian who works there. I used to work with Tracie when I worked at the library myself and I wanted to give her a little something. Plus that way she could show the button to anyone who might want to sign up for the button class.

Fabric button with name written on it and then I added a hot fix crystal to dot the "i" in her name.

Wool felt with embroidered stitches and a few hot fix crystals with fabric button glued in the center. I sewed an alligator clip to the back so that it can be clipped onto clothing or a clipboard or a bag, etc.

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Wool Applique Flower in a Circle

I wanted to work on something by hand besides knitting, so I decided on doing a wool applique with embroidery. I found some inspiration on Pinterest and then designed my own piece. I am not sure what I will do with this, perhaps a large pincushion or a mug rug? I enjoyed making this and it turned out better than I expected too. The yellow background is a woven wool material, the blue and red flower petals are actually cotton flannel that looks like wool, the red ring around the center and the green circles are wool felt.

Will this turn into a pincushion or a mug rug? Check back and see what I end up doing to finish this piece.

The flower petals of blue and red are cotton flannel that looks like wool.

The green circles and the red ring around the center is felted wool. The yellow background is a woven wool fabric.

 

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