Heart "Felt" Valentines

 

I have a few new heart felt brooches/ornaments and appliqued zip pouches in the shop just in time for Valentine's Day gifting.

The embroidered hearts can be finished as a pin/brooch or as an ornament. Just let me know when placing your order.

 

These appliqued zip pouches are all made from felted sweater wool, are available in a variety of colors and each have a different stitched shape such as a heart, mushroom, cat, butterfly, goldfish or leaf. These are fun to carry as a small clutch or to organize smaller items in your larger purse or tote bag.

New Small Zip Pouches

I 've added a selection of new small zip pouches to the shop. These cute little pouches are each made from a piece of felted sweater wool and repurposed denim in a coordinating color.

Perfect as a tiny clutch to hold a little cash, a few cards, your keys and phone. Or use it to safeguard small items in your larger bag or tote.

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Shop Cyber Monday at FeltSewGood on Etsy with coupon code Cyber at checkout and get 10% OFF any purchase of $15 or more through midnight December 2!

 

 

New FeltSewGood Zip Pouches

 

 

I spent some time over the rainy weekend working on a new batch of appliqued zip pouches. They are now available in my Etsy shop.

Groovy Tie Dye Tank Tops

I've just added some new groovy, fun, tie dye tank tops to our Galactic Avatar Etsy shop!

 

 

There are traditional spiral designs

 

 

 

contrasting, colorful tiger stripes

 

 

 

and a rainbow of color in various sizes.

 

These are all soft and stretchy, ribbed ladies tank tops, in 100 percent cotton. Great for summer layering with other tanks and tees, ready to wear with your favorite shorts and jeans! 

 

Shop Update Soon!

Occasionally I receive a request for a longer or shorter strap on one of my FeltSewGood handbags or purses. Since I use mostly repurposed materials for my creations, I often have a limited amount of fabric, or sweater wool, to use for each purse and that can ultimately limit the length of the purse straps.

But when I have the extra fabric needed, I decided I will make my "Bella" style purses with an adjustable shoulder strap.

  I found these metal buckle pieces at my local fabric store.

 

I had plenty of this herringbone wool to make an extra long strip of fabric to use for the shoulder strap. This Bella will be able to be carried over the shoulder, or worn across your body by adjusting the new longer strap.

 

I'm working on several new items, including this Bella, and I'll have a shop update Saturday, April 20 and again on Monday, April 22.
Have a great weekend!

 

 

New Heart Felt Brooches!

It's been quite a while since I've made any of my "Heart Felt Brooches".

They're sweet little stuffed heart shaped pins made from felted, or fulled, repurposed wool sweaters.

I'd saved some pink, rose, mauve and burgundy felted sweater wool to use for this batch of brooches. I cut two sizes of hearts and mixed and matched the coordinating colors. I then choose some embroidery thread colors to complement the wool.

First I used a blanket stitch to add a small contrasting heart shape to each brooch front. Then I embroidered a few tiny flowers, stitches and knots to embellish each heart.

To finish, I added another large heart to the back, blanket stitched around the outer edge and added just enough stuffing to make them into tiny little heart shaped pillows. Each has a levered pinback for secure placement on a sweater or jacket.
These brooches make great little Valentine's gifts and are now all for sale in my Etsy shop!

New Zip Pouches

Here's a quick look at what I've been sewing lately.

I've combined pieces of felted sweater wool with woven wool from some repurposed men's wool jackets to make a new version of my small zip pouches.

They're just the perfect size to hold a little cash or cards, keys and phone.
Or use one to safeguard small items in a larger bag.

They are available now in the shop!

Gingerbread Christmas Holiday Craft Show

I've spent the last several weeks getting ready for the annual Gingerbread Christmas holiday craft show this coming Saturday, December 3, at Plainfield High School in Plainfield, Indiana.

I've been cutting and stitching felted wool flower brooches.

Making a variety of my recycled sweater wool handbags.

These cute zip pouches make great gifts!

And I have lots of colorful wool mittens for both adults and kids.

I'm looking forward to the show - there's always a great crowd. And I love to be a shopper, too!

And I'll be listing everything left after the show in my Etsy shop next week.

Get Your Craft On!

March is National Craft Month. Whether you like to craft with paper and glue, needle and thread, or wax, or clay, you can always find inspiration from other artists and crafters on Etsy. And just in time for your Easter crafting projects, I found these wonderful, Easter inspired DIY patterns, kits and tutorials all from fellow Etsy artists.

Make your own fabric Easter eggs with Retromama's Retro Ruler Easter Eggs Sewing Kit.

This Felt Food Easter Basket PDF pattern includes instructions for the dark chocolate bunny, colorful marshmallow bunnies, woven Easter basket and more! All from GulfCoastCottagePDF.


Here comes the Easter bunny! This sweet Bunny Rabbit Needle Felting Kit is from Bear Creek Design.


Try your hand at making a molded Sugar Easter Egg with Fondant Flowers from this silicone mold. Half egg and flower mold with intructions from Whysper Fairy.


Learn how to make a Pine Needle Basket. Pattern and instructions for this wide raffia style basket offered by Make A Basket.

Happy Crafting!

A Special Award!

I had a wonderful surprise the other day! Thanks so much to Amy aka: ropergirl3, of Amy's Handmade Goodies and Vintage Finds, for The Circle of Friends Award!!!

The conditions of accepting this wonderful blog award are for me to list five things that I like to do. After creating that list, I am to pass on this blog award to five more bloggers that I would like to learn more about... so here goes:

Five things I love/like to do:

1. Spending time with my family.
2. Creating. Especially sewing, but I like other types of needlework, beading and I still want to learn to knit and crochet!

3. Gardening. Both flowers and vegetables.

4. Cooking. I love trying new recipes!
5. Reading. I love to sit on the porch on a warm summer evening with a good book.

Now here are the five bloggers I am passing this on to:

1. Kim at Sandbox Gems

2. Olly at Wollies

3. Catherine at The Sewing Attic

4. Lori at what's after 29?

5. Tara at SewGorgeous

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Irish Blessing -

"May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

The rains fall soft upon your fields,

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of his hand."

This afternoon I'm going to try Paulette's yummy looking Irish Soda Bread recipe! See Paulette's blog, Beedeebabee, for the recipe and photos. Yum!!!

And the Winner Is. . .

The two winners of the FeltSewGood Spring Blog Giveaway are Sandy and Amy. Thank you so much to everyone who entered! I love reading all your comments.

Sandy chose the orange poppy brooch.

And Amy chose the black-eyed Susan.

I'll be listing some more flower brooches in the shop later this week. I've been working on some more poppies, I haven't had many of those listed this year. Feel free to convo me through the shop if you have a special color in mind!

Spring Giveaway!

It's time for a FeltSewGood Giveaway! It's almost Spring and that has me thinking of green grass, warmer temperatures, green leaves and flower buds.

Isn't it wonderful to see those first Spring flower buds open to colorful Spring flowers!

In honor of Spring's arrival, I'm giving away the flower brooch of your choice from my Etsy shop to not one, but TWO LUCKY WINNERS! And everyone has THREE CHANCES TO WIN! There are dozens of colors and styles to choose from and I'll be adding more this week.

To enter the FeltSewGood Spring Giveaway:

1. Go to FeltSewGood on Etsy, look through the flower brooches, and leave a comment here on this blog post about which flower you would choose if you won.

2. Become a follower of this blog and leave me a comment to tell me that you are a follower.

3. Become a fan of FeltSewGood's Facebook page, which will also give you notices of special offers and discounts on FeltSewGood products, and leave me a comment on this blog post that you are a fan.

When you leave your comments, make sure that I have a way to contact you if you are a winner - either through your own blog, Etsy shop or email!

Good luck to all! Contest closes at midnight, EST, on Saturday, March 13. Each comment will be assigned a number and the winner will be choosen using random.org.

What's New?

My weekend was fairly creative and productive despite a little trouble with my trusty Kenmore sewing machine. I had cleaned out the sweater "fuzz" from under the presser plate and around the bobbin, adjusted the tension and jiggled the foot pedal. My husband could tell I was getting a little frustrated and asked me to describe the trouble I was having. Basically after all my efforts, when I pressed on the foot pedal, the machine either started out stitching too fast or would not start stitching at all. My Handy Hubby decided the foot pedal itself was the problem and after he took it apart and cleaned a connection, my sewing machine is working well again and all is good in my sewing room!

So here is what I've been working on. I've found some nice wool men's jackets, or sportcoats, and a great chocolate brown suede skirt, all at thrift stores. I like the way the woven wool, and especially the suede, look with the felted sweater wool so I've incoorporated them into some of my handbag designs.

This is my first try at sewing with the suede. I used it for the top band and strap of a Bella handbag. It's a little bit harder to work with, but I love the results.

I like this combo of the red sweater wool and the black and white herringbone woven wool. And it was fun to use the original jacket's features, like the pockets, in the design of the purse.

This is another Bella handbag made with green sweater wool and a simple plaid pattern in woven wool.

I've spent the afternoon cutting out some more combinations of colors and fabrics. What do you think? I'd love to hear your feedback or opinions on my new ideas!

Happy Valentine's Day!

These sweet wool felt conversation hearts are from Maiseyhandmade on Etsy.

'Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Featured from the Etsy Bloggers Team : : TiLTcreations

TiLTcreations sells a wonderful variety of sizes and styles of handbags and purses. Everything from casual backpacks and shoulder bags to pretty clutches ready for a night on the town! All are handmade and one-of-a-kind.

These photos represent just a few of the lovely variety of styles available from TiLTcreations.

Purse with Burgundy, Mint and White Circles on Ginger

Clutch in Red Ironworks Swirls

Zip Pouch in Bright Tropical Another Iota Pebbles

Casual Backpack in Chocolate Squares

And if you are looking for crafting supplies, check out her second shop, Tilt Too.

And, of course, being a memer of the Etsy Bloggers Team means she has a blog of her own. Crafts, kids, home and life is the name of the blog. Stop by her blog for great crafting ideas and posts about other Etsians. Be sure to say hello and leave a comment!

Snowflakes!

Snowflakes - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the bosom of the Air,

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,

Over the woodlands brown and bare,

Over the harvest-fields forsaken,

Silent, and soft, and slow

Descends the snow.

A fresh coat of snow overnight was the inspiration for my search of "snowflakes" on Etsy. Here is a simple collage of a few of my favorite items with a snowflake theme. Clockwise from the upper left photo:

a collage sheet of real snowflake photos from 1900, from piddix

child size felted wool mittens with snowflake pattern from my own shop, FeltSewGood

vintage snowflake brooch, from DesiredSimplicity

snowflake motif wedding invitations, from rgbcolor

Have a look at these items and more in the shops of these Etsy artisans and sellers!

Craftivism for Haiti

Some very generous organizers, artists and crafters have come together to raise money to help the people of Haiti. They've organized online auctions and opened Etsy shops with donated handcrafted items with proceeds from the sales going to Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross International Response Fund and other relief organizations. I wanted to share what I'm sure are just a few of these online groups. There's more information on Etsy artists Craftivism on Etsy's Handmade Blog, the Storque.

This photo of a woman in Haiti, taken before the disastrous earthquake, is from the Etsy shop HelpHaiti. All the proceeds from this shop go to Project 81.

Hearts for Haiti is an Etsy collective of donated items from hundreds of Etsy shops to raise money to rebuild Haiti. Proceeds from this shop go to Doctors Without Borders.


Craft Hope is another Etsy shop full of beautiful donated items from the crafting community. Proceeds from the Craft Hope Etsy shop go to Doctors Without Borders. You can find out more from the Craft Hope website.

Indie Fixx is holding a silent auction of items that have been donated by indie crafters, artists and designers. Proceeds go to the Red Cross International Response Fund. More details on the Indie Fixx website.

In just a few days these shops and auction have already raised a lot of money. Be sure to check out these sites for more info or to purchase or donate an item. And I'd love to know about other efforts you are a part of, or know about!