Sunday, 15 July 2012

Needle Felt Boota


It was only a couple of nights ago that my boyfriend got me to watch Gurren Lagann. Straight away I thought the little mole Boota was so adorable that I had to make him, and in what better way than as a little ball of wool?

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Johto League Badge Magnets


Johto League Pokemon badges, in magnet form. Very happy with the result and they're so bright on the fridge. These are so addictive to make and I could have easily spent so many hours making more.

And just because I could...

Monday, 9 July 2012

Navi Cat Stick Toy


HEY, LISTEN!
 

Based on Navi from Zelda. The body is made to look like a ball of yarn for the lucky cat who gets to play with this, and the wings are a soft tulle sewn around some beading wire. Of course I had to include the bell to hopefully get my cat to play with this. The light made it look purple in the photo but the yarn I used is actually a light blue. I'll try to take a better photo during the day tomorrow


Unfortunately my cat lives 2 hours away since my landlord won't allow pets, so if I get a chance to visit her this weekend, I'll let you know what my cat thinks of this. But how could it fail? It's Navi after all.

Power Star Pin Cushion


Just a quick late night project after I realised I don't own a pin cushion. This Mario Power Star is much cuter in real life and it was fun to make as well. I just used scraps of felt that I had lying around after previous projects.

Transformers Door Stop


After I showed some people at work the few things that I had been working on, I was asked to make another door stop for one of the ladies' 5-year-old son. Only this time, it had to be Transformers related. This has two Decepticon faces and two Autobot faces These door stops are really just pieces of felt sewn into a cube with some appliqué on them. As with the Mario cube this one also has the extra cube inside for support.

Thursday, 5 July 2012

Jigglypuff Needle Felt


Yep, it's Jigglypuff. My favourite of all pokemon. The only real reason I chose to do this was because it is so hard to find a Jigglypuff other than a plastic one that doesn't look weird with a badly proportioned curl.

I started this project having had no prior experience with needle felt, other than watching a 4 minute youtube video, so I'm fairly happy with the result. I think the arms should have been smaller, but I don't think they're too bad.
 

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Question Mark Block Door Stop

My first of hopefully many projects for this blog. A door stop based on the question mark blocks from the Mario series.


The cube is made entierly of felt, the brown is woolen felt and the yellow and black is acrylic felt. Inside is a cube made out of calico filled with uncooked rice. I decided to use the two cubes for extra strength, so down the track I wouldn't be finding bits of rice everywhere.
the design is held on by a ultrahold iron-on adhesive and the edges of the yellow squares are sewn.


I plan to get in the habit of making at least one thing each week or at least every fortnight, and posting it here on a Tuesday or Saturday. For some projects I'll also post a tutorial. I promise they will all somehow be game or anime related.


Emly.