Felt Tooth Fairy Pouches

Remember when loosing a tooth was exciting?  Man do I miss those days.  My friend's 6 year old, who has been the innocent victim of my crafting for a number of years now, has his first loose tooth.  He's excited and therefor so am I even if my own memories of loose teeth aren't exactly pleasant.  After the methods I saw to pulling the loose teeth, I was more than willing to keep my mouth shut (pun fully intended on that one) when it came to my own loose teeth.  So to kick off B's tooth fairy dreams right, I made him a cute little tooth fairy pouch I found off nowhere else than Pinterest.

The Purl Bee has this stinking cute tutorial for these little puppies.

Tooth Fair Pouch from Purl Bee

They take no time at all to make.  I sewed part of mine and only hand stitching the tooth on.  I wasn't brave enough to try and machine sew that part.

Sorry for the bad cell phone photo here.  I will get good photos of these eventually.

I didn't have the nice white yarn so I went with matching ribbon I did have as well.

Purl Bee sells all the supplies to make these from there website.  I don't have the same colors they have but you can buy the felt from my Etsy shop, StitchinCute, for a fraction of the price.  I bought the spool of ribbon at Walmart for 50 cents and used two strands of a white tone DMC embroidery floss for the tooth.

Super simple and super cute!

Pretty Felt! From Me to You!

So here we go, felt.  I have loved making my felt flowers but I got frustrated with the quality and colors.  

My favorite felt flower to date

I wanted all the pretty colors I saw everywhere but every fabric store I run into has these craft felt colors that just don't work for me.  I looked into buying sheets of felt and about fell over at the prices.  So here you are.  I'm going to try my hand at selling these wonderful colors of felt that I've seen with the quality of having actual wool included in the blend.  On top of that, since this is not an attempt at making an income to support myself on, I'm willing to, quite frankly, not make much off of it.  As with everything else I do, it doesn't happen all that quickly.  Here are two of my first packs of felt to offer you.  I have a listing for both a set of 8 sheets and a set of 16.  Eventually, I hope to have some fun stuff for you to make with these.  That's the plan at least.

Sweetheart Valentines Wool Felt Pack

Rustic Christmas Wool Felt Pack

Oh yeah, the best part of all. The felt is made 100% in the USA. It sure means something to me to be able to support my own country. Details of the wool blend can be found on the Etsy listing. I have plenty more to go so stay tuned.

Brainstorming

I realized as I went to type this up just how descriptive the term brainstorming is. I sure feel like my brain has been a storm of ideas the last week. I seem to alway find half my brain on what I wish I could be making in my craft room at home. Well, anyway, from all the storming that has been going on this week I am heavily considering expanding my little adventure here. I have fallen in love with felt. Trust me, I NEVER thought I would say that. But the stuff really is so versatile. I am waiting for some quotes and these are what determine the fate of this idea. Cross your fingers for me. If anyone wants to share some felt wholesale vendors they know, I would greatly appreciate it.

Soooo many ideas and not near enough time.

Rusty HTML

After spending the last hour hacking the etsy mini "widget" onto the side of the blog, I'm realizing just how rusty my html and css skills are at this point.  I sure "relearned" a lot.  I can't control the background color it seems.  Sorry all, I know its kinda ew.

Anyway, now that its nearly 10pm for me, I think I better go get some dinner.  You think?

New ideas

Well, as my dad would say, this is the engineer in me. I have been working on new ideas. Posting some pictures of the makings. Have enjoyed every minute.

Work vs Crafting

I've had to shift to a new work schedule this week and it feels like it is encroaching on my crafting time more than ever.  How does one function when work starts at 11am and you leave the office at 8pm with a 45 minute drive tacked on to both ends?  Never the less, I will find time to sew, some how.

I have so many ideas that I want to do.  If I could, I'd take a week of PTO and just stay at home and work on all of them.  Thanks to all the other wonderful crafty people that make tutorials and none other than my new Pinterest addiction.

Crafters heart to sing

I got a custom request today that I'm super excited about. The buyer wants to give them as wedding gifts to part of the wedding party. These types of orders really make a crafters heart sing. I am honored to be picked out of the masses selling on Etsy for this request. All the best wishes to the happy couple.

Stubborn

I only removed her from this location 3 times before I finally gave up and decided to throw the towel in (pun intended) and give up ironing any seams tonight.

Felt flower for mardi gras

Made this for a lady at work who particularly likes Mardi Gras. The colors are off in the photo but you get the idea.

Fabric flowers with scraps

I've been holding onto scraps of fabric thinking there must be something I can do with them. Well, found it!

Orders up

Working on an order for 6 gray pouches.