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. 

Panda Phone / iPod Cases

A couple of new additions to the Minifelts Shop include these cute panda phone / iPod cases. They fit everything from iPhones to Blackberry Phones as well as many other types of smart phone and the iPod touch and iPod Classic.

Easter Cases

After spending the past few months working on re-stocking my shop with lots of my most popular designs, it's been nice this week to finally get some time to work on some new cases. 

Here they are! Brand new Easter / Spring themed Minifelt Phone / iPod /Gadget Cases. 

An Easter Bunny. Available HERE.

A little Sheep. Available HERE.

New Keyrings!

I just thought I'd share some photos of my new keyring designs.

Fox Keyring

Bunny Keyring

Owl Keyring

Penguin Keyring

Hedgehog Keyring

I've just added them to my Folksy Shop, if you fancy something to keep your keys safe, or to brighten up your bag. 

I have loads of ideas for new projects at the moment. I can't decide what to work on next, either animal notepad covers, hairclips, wallets (bigger versions of my Minifelt purses but with a pocket for cards) or some more laptop cases.... hmm. What do you think? 

Web Wednesday

How cool are these tiny felt musical instruments? The attention to detail is amazing!

They're made by Seja Vogel and are for sale in her Etsy shop. You can also check out other instruments she's made on Flickr, and she takes custom orders so you can get your own guitar or favourite instrument made especially for you. I'd love to get a mini version of my drum kit made in felt! 

Minifelts are for sale in a gallery!

I have some exciting news. A few weeks ago I was contacted by the 20-21 Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire about stocking some of my Minifelts and today I finally finished the order and sent them off!


They requested about twenty items plus a few replacements which is practically all of the stock for my Folksy shop!

So I've been hard at work replacing items and working on some new designs.

Including new animal face purses. So far I've made a bear, owl and cat which will soon be available to buy from the gallery, and hopefully I'll be expanding this range for the website and folksy shop too. 

I also made a few keyrings, the Owl Keyring and the Penguin Keyring are for sale on my website.

This is the first time I've supplied a gallery, so it's a really exciting opportunity but scary too as I  really hope they sell! It's also given me the confidence to start approaching more shops and galleries, I just need to get much quicker at making things...

Unfortunately Lincolnshire is quite far away from me so I won't be able to go and see them on display but the gallery have kindly agreed to send me some photos, so I will give you all another update when they go on display. 

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:

Raccoon Netbook Cover

I have been working on a very special custom order. After purchasing one of my raccoon brooches a customer asked if I could make her a matching raccoon netbook case.

I love a challenge, so I took the template I'd drawn for the badge and enlarged it to make a mahoosive raccoons head! When coming up with designs I always start by sketching a basic shape/outline on paper, then cutting it out and pinning it to the felt.

I started by cutting out the different pieces of the raccoons head from some redy brown, white and black felt and sewing a few white stitches to add detail to the eyes.

(Check out how tiny the original badge is in comparison)

I decided to make the case double layered to make sure the netbook was well protected, and recycled some old material to make the inner and outer layers. I used an old blanket dyed brown, for the cover and some green baize for the inner layer. I stitched the whole thing by hand, not a sewing machine in sight (plus I'm absolutely useless with one!)

Next I sewed along the top and sides of the green inner layer and the brown outer layer, to make a pouch for the netbook, leaving some excess so I could cut it to size later. Then I sewed the raccoon pieces to each other and then down onto the brown cover.

Here it is ready for the opening to be cut to size. After I'd cut the edges to fit the netbook, I sewed the green inner lining to the brown outer lining so that they'd stay together, and added a velcro strap that stretched around the back of the case for extra security.

Here it is finished!

I even scanned in the image to create a matching desktop wallpaper for the customer to use on her netbook!

I'm pretty pleased with the result, since it's probably my biggest project to date. I'm planning on making a whole range of netbook and maybe even laptop covers, as they're a lot more interesting than those boring black ones you can buy in PC World! I've even been on a special visit to the big Abakhan in Wales to stock up on huge rolls of felt, so watch this space for some new designs very soon...