It's Fun To Craft Together

 As I've mentioned before, it's the simple things in life that make me happy!  One of those things is spending time with my 3 year old daughter who is just starting to show a keen interest in stitching, sewing and crafting in general (oh and spiderman too but that's a whole other blog post!).

With this in mind we went to the library and picked up a few books to find some ideas for a project and found a brilliant one called Green Crafts For Children by Emma Hardy.  After flicking through it we didn't have to look very long for a project to do before my daughter found one she liked the look of as it's the project featured on the front cover....the felt necklace.

To make the necklace we needed a few scraps of felt in various colours; some 'gloopy' glue, scissors and thread. Two felt pieces were cut to size, rolled into a "swiss roll" and glued together.  Once the glue had dried we then cut them into smaller "beads" and threaded them all together to make the necklace.

The lovely thing about this project is that it was a really simple idea and perfect for a 3 year old to tackle as she was able to do all the cutting and gluing herself; although she did have a little help with the threading part!

A really lovely way to spend an afternoon....it's fun to craft together.

Happy stitching

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Sewing Projects - Bunting

It's been very busy on the sewing front recently at the Wonky Witch Needlecraft cavern that I haven't had much time for cross stitch.  Please don't get me wrong, I have managed to sneak one cross stitch thank you card in for a friend but sewing has taken up all my free time recently.

The first project a few weeks ago was some good old fashioned bunting for the royal wedding celebrations. I realise the colours are not particularly patriotic but I wanted to match it with some other store bought bunting I already have to use at my daughter's birthday party in June... excuses, excuses!   The bunting was really simple to make (which is perfect for a newbie sewer like me) and I've added some of the details of how it was made up below;

To make a bunting strip 12 flags or triangles wide I used 4 separate pieces of fabric made up of gingham, polka dots and flowers in pastel colours.  

1. Using the 22cm x 18cm triangular template shown in the diagram; cut 6 triangles from each of the 4 fabric pieces, ending up with 24 triangles in total.
2. Place 2 of the triangles from one lot of fabric right side to right side and sew together (using a 1 cm seam allowance) leaving a gap at the top of about 4 cm.
3. Press along the seams then turn inside out so right side of fabric is showing.  
4. Repeat with your other triangles and you should end up with 12 flags for the bunting.  
5. Sew a strip of ribbon across the top of each of your triangles to complete.  I used roughly 3 metres but you may want to adapt to your space requirements. 

The hardest part of all was choosing the fabric!!  Am I the only one who finds it hard to pick and choose the right fabric for a project?

As always, Happy Sewing/Stitching!!!

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