FELT AND STITCHES

Last year I made myself a little needle case
on a lanyard of felt with a cutter on the end

It is so soft and it opens out to reveal a small silk pouch for threads

and the folded felt holds needles safe

the press stud was not a good closure ....I need to reinforce that better next time 

 but everything else is great

I can hang it about my neck and stitch happily anywhere



This is the new little case, I love how the stitching I did before I felted has turned out.

Here it is opened out, I've added some extra flaps of felt for needles.

I'm Very happy with how it's coming along

I will add a pouch for threads next

I used a resist to create a channel for the lanyard to slip through

This is a project I've been carrying around for months

Football, sewing days....my mum's house It even went on a holiday

It's just a long piece of prefelt

with lots of stitching , lace wool and silk added to it

I want to photograph it now, take some measurements

FELT it and then check out what everything has done

thought I would show you the start

I dyed the prefelt with gum leaves in soapy water....Actually we were marking lambs, a very dirty job. I always have a bucket of warm water to wash up before lunch. It ended up being very soapy. I had organized some bundles to dye over the camp fire.....But I ran out of rain water...so the last bundle was prefelt with gum leaves in an aluminium pot , with the soapy water....I got lovely subtle purples and Yellows

I will keep you posted when I've felted the scarf  happy stitching