Tutorial: Felt Heart Garland

Love it or hate it, Valentine's day is fast upon us. If you'd like to make something for that day, or something to add some cute to your room, look no further than this felt heart garland.

The items you'll need are:

Felt

Heart template (really simple to draw up)

Pins

Scissors

Embroidery floss

Thread

Sewing needle

Yarn needle

Stuffing (not pictured)

Directions:

1. Pin heart template to folded piece of felt, and cut it out.

2. Thread needle and sew the heart (I used the blanket stitch. A tutorial for that is on FutureGirl's blog)

3. When you get half way around your heart, stop sewing, and begin to stuff the heart.

4. Finish sewing, and make an extra stitch at the beginning of the heart.

5. Insert the needle at the top, and push through the bottom. Cut excess thread.

6. Repeat numbers 1-5 as needed.

After you make more hearts, you can string them together.

7. Thread a length of embroidery thread.

8. Pierce one side of the heart, and pull through.

9. Repeat as needed.

Enjoy your super adorable heart garland!

If you decide to make one (or many) send me a photo! And if you have any questions, ask here, or email me.

Take Care.

So, what were you up to?

Sometimes we have such an interesting week, we want to share it with everyone! That's what I'll be doing today.

My past week was fun, crafty, and educational.

On the 20th, I went with my mother to the Birch Aquarium at UCSD. This will get it's own post soon enough, so I'll leave you with this clown fish.

Isn't it cute? It kept popping back into the anemone.

When we returned home, I felt like sewing, so I started on a re-style of this dress my grandma gifted to me.

I have a skirt for my sister, and the rest of the dress for myself. I just have to fit everything to us, and we can't seem to stay still long enough to pin things on one another.

On Saturday, I buckled down and started creating more things for the shop. I cut up some old scrap fabrics I had, and turned them into some pretty adorable bow brooches.

I also got a lot of knitting and crocheting done that day. Last proper free weekend before school started.

Got a good bit into the red beret on Sunday afternoon.

And I finished a hat commission from a friend.

Monday, school started on a very rainy day. I wish I took photos. Ah, infact, I have no interesting photos from this week, as school tends to suck me down this abyss of learning professors names, buying tons of supplies, and remembering where your classes are.

I'm hoping for a great semester this Spring. I have an entirely new attitude about everything, and so many people rooting for my succcess. Maybe one day, I'll go a little more into detail about my school things.

How were your past weeks? Any of you start back to school?

Take care!

Link Dump

Here are some interesting links I came across this week!

Bianca showed off some awesome books she's made for her class.

Sarai talked about why she enjoys wearing red lipstick. (I should probably go and see what shades of lipstick look good on me.)

Solanah shared photos from a lovely outing she and fellow vintage enthusiasts had.

Kathy showed us some old Chicago infographs, which I found very awesome.

Beth showed off some amazing handbags. I've got my eye on that yellow and brown one.

Hope you discover some new interesting reads from this list! I'm writing up a longer post to have up sometime tomorrow, and another talking about the little outing my mother and I had last week!

Take care, and happy crafting

Mini Update

Hello everyone!

I decided to pop in for a bit to leave you a mini update, so you know what's going on in my life. And by a mini update, I mean, what happened today. I'll have a bigger 'mini' update at the end of the week.

I started a hat over the weekend, and finished it up last night. When I returned from classes today, it finished blocking!

I can't wait to wear it. It was made from the extra wool I had from my mom's Meret, and the Borneo owls. And I constructed it by trial and error. I think I did a pretty good job, and it gave me confidence to work on a project for a later date.

After classes ended, I popped over to the art store and bought some colored pencils for my art course. I've used Prismacolors before, and I've always enjoyed their smoothness. It's gonna be hard to prevent me from using these to color non-school things, I can feel it.

And as I was waiting to pay for my items, I saw the most adorable earbuds.

I find matryoshka things to be very fascinating, so I yelped happily when I saw these, and immediately bought them. Which is good, because the other pair I've been using finally died in both sides.

I figured I'd start another hat to give my hands something to do during my school commute, so I started this on the ride there.

Lets see how long it takes to finish this one!

Take care, and happy crafting.

Link Dump

I decided to leave you some links to some things that caught my interest this week. Maybe they'll be of some interest to you as well!

Next Tuesday (the 24th) Elycia and Chantilly will be hosting a craft night! I hope I can pop in and observe, and make that cute little camera plush! =D

Allison Kaye adopted a super adorable cat named Batman. I love cats, so I live vicariously through other cat owners. (if you have a cat, let me know so I can make annoying cute sounds!)

The lovely ladies at The Coletterie posted up a nifty tutorial for applique. I think I'll poke about and see if I have any large prints I can chop up!

And I sort of want this Modcloth dress. And by want it, I mean I want to make it.

I start school on Monday, and I keep hitting mini walls when it comes to writing up my lesson things! Maybe being back in the school setting will psych me back into a good writing groove. Hmm. Fingers crossed!!

Take care.

PS- I might make this a regular thing. What do you guys think?

Busy Weekend

I'm trying to get as many things done while I still have ample free time. Don't want to have that overworked feeling so early on in the semester!!

A friend asked me to make her a panda hat the other day, and this is how far I've gotten. I need to sew on the ears, and make the face! It's already super adorable, I love it.

I plan to do a bit of sewing later this evening, so I can deplete the growing stash of fabric scraps I have.

Can one call 5 rows of garter stitch a WIP? Well, I am. If I zone out on my netflix queue, I should finish this.

I'm still working on my organizational skills. So I'm figuring out how to plan blog posts. I've got some ideas for recurring things, such as Inspirational mosaics, work in progress days, and things that made me smile that week. Do any of you have any other ideas of things which can work?

Take care, and happy crafting.

Slowly, but surely.

I'm still trying my best for figure how to go about these lessons. But I think I'm doing pretty good. I can reuse bits and pieces from my speech presentation to get this started.

Everything is there, I just have to work on the execution.

And I did it, I made resolutions for the year. I snagged an adorable printout from mygirlthursday and scribbled up things I plan to accomplish this year.

1. Increase my Self-Confidence.

I'm slowly getting better.

2. Apply to a craft fair.

It's something I've been wanting to do for a while. :3

3. Create more.

Just in general. Take a bit of time out, to make new lovely things.

4. Increase Social Media presence.

AKA, have not just my bffs following me on all social networks. (don't get me wrong, I love you guys, but I can text you all the upcoming info xD)

5. Smile more.

There's a reason for the 'angry' in Tiny.Angry.Crafter. I rarely smile, and I frown a lot. I need to work on the smiley part.

6. Work hard, and stay sane.

I work hard, but get burnt out so easily. Gotta work hard, and still have the drive to keep going.

If I keep at it, I'll have at least my intro for the knitting and crochet lessons up by the end of this weekend. So keep your fingers crossed, and feel free to yell at me on twitter to keep at it!

Take care, and happy crafting!