Sale! - Grab a stocking filler

I'm having a mini sale! Including a mixture of old designs and one off pieces. They'd all make great little stocking fillers and are ready to ship. There's only one of each design so it's first come first served. Drop me a message if you'd like one and I can take payment through Paypal. I'll be slowly adding them to my shop, but you lovely blog readers along with my facebook followers get the first chance to snap up a bargain!

Brooches £3.50, Keyrings £4.00, Purses £5.00 and a set of 2 finger puppets for £4.00.  

UK Shipping is £1.50. 

Minifelt Purses

Firstly apologies for the lack of blogging lately. I blame it all on the fantastic weather we've been having, as it's just too nice to stay indoors on the computer!

Anyway I have been hard at work on these new additions to my shop, felt purses. I've always wanted to have a go at sewing a purse but thought it'd be too complicated as I've never sewn a zip in before...

Here is my first attempt. I started with two layers of felt, cut to about 12 x 8cm.  Then I sewed my design onto the front layer first, I choose a fox's face, as I'm quite obsessed with foxes after watching Fantastic Mr Fox on DVD the other day!

Then when it came to sewing in the zip I cheated and cut a gap the size of my zip into two pieces of felt (the inner layer and outer layer). Then I stitched around the outside of the zip to hold it in place, which seems to work perfectly!

I then finished the purse off by sewing the sides together of the inner layer which I made slightly smaller than the outer layer, as I thought that two layers of stitches would make it more sturdy.

Here's the finished purse plus I've made a few more too with some different designs: