Christmas puddings.

Next on my list to make, is Christmas puddings! After I finished the last of my Christmas tree's last night I cut out the Christmas pudding shapes ready to be sewn together tonight! I also added on the embellishments so that it would save me time when I went to finish them tonight; some little miniature star buttons in Christmas colours of red and green, and red thin silk polka dot ribbon to hang them from, a ribbon I feel has a certain Christmas feel about it!

I am about to start sewing them together now!

More Christmas tress.

And so I have finally listed the last of my Christmas tree's! There are two sets, one with 4 decorated Christmas tree's.

One of these has also been listed individually! And then there is also a set of three!

One of these has also been listed individually!

All four listings can be found in my shop and also keep checking back because I have lots of Christmas themed stuffs to add over the next couple of weeks!



Christmas is coming.

Over the past few days I have been working on getting some Christmas stock into my shop. So of course, the first stage was buying Christmas themed materials!

I raided Cal's stock and got some pretty ribbons, Christmas colour themed buttons, metallic bells and also some more felt some of which I cut into Christmas shapes ready to be turned into decorated Christmas tree's to be used as tree decorations or general Christmas ornaments.

I decided to decorate each tree differently. A set of five is decorated with sequins, ribbon and a metallic bell.

I have decorated these with peacock coloured sequins, another set of three Christmas tree's is decorated similar but with lilac sequins and a set of 4 is currently being worked on and decorated with the red and green buttons.

I am enjoying making these Christmas decorations and have a few more Christmas themed ideas in the pipelines, so keep checking back here and also my Etsy shop to see what I make next!

I will also post photos here of the other sets of Christmas trees once I have taken them and listed them in my Etsy shop!



More scattered button felt brooches.

Over the weekend I made three more scattered button felt brooches. For a more detailed post about how I make these scattered button brooches you can look at my previous post here

I made them in the same way I made my other scattered button felt brooches. I selected three shades of felt per theme in select colours. This time we have blues, yellows and reds. The buttons were all then picked to fit each colour theme!

Just as with the other scattered button brooches, I really enjoyed making these. They are fun to make; deciding which coloured felts best suit, which colours go together, which buttons would look right and fit. 

I think this red one is my favourite of the three new ones. I have a real thing for autumn colours at the moment, it makes me excited for autumn nights, Bonfire night, Halloween, so I love the warm colours of the felt and buttons!

All three of these scattered button brooches are now available in my Etsy shop to buy : www.etsy.com/shops/tealadydesigns

As well as the other colour themed scattered button brooches I made last week!

Hope you like them as much as I do...

Scattered button brooches

This week I have made three new items for my Etsy shop : www.etsy.com/people/tealadydesigns

Three brooches in different colour themes using buttons scattered over the felt to make an eye catching, unique brooch.

I started off by selecting three different shades of felt for each brooch. Each brooch has a colour theme. There is pinks which uses three different shades of pink felt, blues with a dark pink to spice it up and browns with a rustic feel. I then selected an array of different colour buttons along the same colour themes to be added in a scatter affect on each brooch.

I then cut the felt to shape by hand in three different sizes of the same shape for each brooch so that the felt would be layered when sewn together. I started off by taking the top layer of felt and using an embroidery thread in the colour theme of that brooch, sewing on each button with no particular pattern, just scattering them on to create the desired effect.

Once the buttons were sewn on I attached the brooch back pin to the back of the last layer of felt, through to the second to ensure it was tightly secured. This was attached using black cotton thread. Once this was done I could start to attach the different layers together. I used embroidery threads in colours around each colour theme, using a running stitch to attach each layer of felt to the other.

I really enjoyed making these brooches and I am looking forward to making more in various colour themes and different shapes. I get to use two of my favourite materials, felt and buttons, in one go to create a cute, unique and eye catching brooch.



Scattered buttons

Tonight I have been making felt brooches scattered with buttons. I have tried to stick to colour themes, so I have one which is browns, one which is blues and one which is pinks. I am very happy with them and excited to photograph and list them tomorrow.

I have also been asked by an expecting friend to make her a baby mobile, which is very exciting. She wants to wait until she knows the sex of the baby before we pick a theme and colours. I have been considering baby mobiles recently due to a suggestion from a friend and the arrival of my new baby nephew, so it will be good to test my ideas out.