Easy Felted Wool Easter Eggs

Looking for a fun, easy last minute Easter craft to do with the kids? Try my felted wool Easter egg tutorial. Using styrofoam eggs as the base, it's a quick way to make felted wool eggs without using a lot of wool roving. Find step up step photos and instructions here.

Beatrice and Benjamin Bunny

New plush bunnies in my Etsy shop

New FeltSewGood Plush Animals

New in the shop!

I've designed a new batch of plush animals. They are all made from an assortment of repurposed wool and cashmere from both sweaters and woven wool. And of course the cashmere bunnies are super soft. There's also a bear and a kitty.
Perfect for small hands and cuddling, they would also be sweet nursery décor. Now available for adoption!

Crafting with Buttons

 

 

 

 

 

Just finishing up some projects this afternoon and I now have a new set of my "button fruit" zip pouches listed in my shop. I love making these cute zipper pouches from felted recycled sweater wool. I added the "cherries" and "grapes" from my button stash, combined with some embroidery  leaves and stems.

Perfect for gift giving, these three dimensional pouches are approximately 9 inches by 6 inches, the perfect size for a small clutch, cosmetic case, and safekeeping small electronics such as a digital camera or iPod. Or use them to organize small items in a larger tote bag!

See these and more FeltSewGood zip pouches here

 

 

Merry Christmas to All!

New in the Shop!

Lots of new items listed in the shop today!

 

my felted wool sweater mittens in kids sizes,

mittens in adult sizes,

repurposed wool handbags,

plush cat softies,

wool and denim clutches,

and new zip pouches made from a repurposed serape, or woven Mexican blanket.

All great gift ideas!

Holiday Weekend Sale!

Now Through Cyber Monday. . .

Get 15% OFF your purchase at FeltSewGood on Etsy. Choose from purses and handbags, mittens, zip pouches and Christmas ornaments, everything's on sale.

Just use coupon code CYBER15 at checkout. No minimum purchase, discount does not include shipping costs.

Happy shopping!

Hoosier Artisan Boutique

I'll be selling at the Hoosier Artisan Boutique this Saturday, November 28, at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds. Benefitting Toys for Tots of central Indiana.

Tropical Color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of my perennial flowers are past their prime and the landscape in general has taken on a look of seasonal change. But, we're still holding on to summer here with all the tropical color in the garden. The water lilies are still blooming and all of our tropical plants love the hot sunny weather we're having here in the Midwest.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

 

 

Milkweed and Monarchs

 

 

 

 

 

Common milkweed is a pretty plant with fragrant globe shaped flowers on upright three foot tall stems. Famed as a plant that attracts butterflies, this wildflower is a must-have for the butterfly garden. It is the host for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Monarch butterflies deposit their eggs on milkweed plants; once the caterpillars emerge, they eat the leaves. The larvae (caterpillars) of monarch butterflies eat ONLY milkweed. I have this "common milkweed" variety in my garden, but the "butterfly weed" variety of milkweed is shorter and has flat clusters of orange flowers and is also a great addition to a wildflower or butterfly garden.
Monarch populations are endangered, but we can all help by planting butterfly gardens that include a variety of milkweed and butterfly weed plants. To get your own milkweed seeds, go to www.livemonarch.com and plant a butterfly garden.

Sunny Days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been a beautiful warm and sunny week of weather. We got a chance to dry out from the flooding rains and I hope those who needed rain received some.

It was nice to be outside and enjoy the garden, visit friends at their farm, and get some work done in our yard. We brought home farm fresh eggs and juicy sweet peaches from the farm. I made a peach pie from this easy recipe. And we finished a simple but much needed landscape project, removing some overgrown ornamental grass and replacing it with sedum, cactus and sedge grass, all better suited to the hot sunny location.