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I've started sewing again. It's an on again off again thing. I have to have a purpose and deadline or nothing happens. We started decorating for Christmas this year. We put up the tree one night, decorated it the next night, the next night but up the scene and then the boxes of Christmas stuff just sat around my house. Every time we went to decorate we'd get everything out but not necessarily put it all away when it was bedtime (the story of my life). So things have gotten..... lets just say misplaced. One of those things was the kids Christmas stockings. I'd torn my whole house apart looking for them and then put back together looking for them... no luck. I talked to hubby about it and we decide I should just make replacements. This way they will finally match Mom and Dad's and it will be more personal. So I let my creative juices flow once again and voila Christmas stockings. I just traced my stocking for a pattern and then purchased the felt sheets for the red parts. I also use fusible bonding paper and just cut a Lightning McQueen and some Butterflies for the stocking pictures. Then I did a machine blanket stitch around them all. For their names I did a tight zigzag of 2.5 width and .5 length. I drew the names on with a pencil/white crayon and sewed over the writing. I'm pleased with how they turned out. Especially since I purchase mine and hubby's. But the kids match perfectly.
This is more of a craft project since there was no sewing involved but it was really fun to create. I found the idea for this on
pinterest.com. Here is the link
http://emptybobbinsewing.com/2010/12/12/o-christmas-tree-o-felt-christmas-tree/. I used her tutorial for ornament shapes and the idea to the command strips to attach to the wall. The kids love taking the ornaments on and off and I even personalized them by adding Lightning McQueen and a Butterfly ornament (I'm sure by now you are noticing a theme for each of my kids). I love it and I'm going to use it next year. So easy because the felt sticks to felt. If you want to do the strips or picture,etc use the bonding paper from the fabric store. Works great. My store only had green, black, red, and white felt so that is why those are the only colors.
