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    Felt Crafting
    Felt Crafting
    Felt Crafting
    Ebook118 pages40 minutes

    Felt Crafting

    By Joetta Gillespie

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    A How-To book with dozens of photos on learning felt craft basics including kit selection, fabric cutting, making a variety of stitches, using beads and sequins and adding special touches to your felt fabric project. Includes tips for finishing a Christmas stocking and a few fun facts and history of felt.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781682222553
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      I was disappointed to discover this is largely a vanity book of the many Christmas stocking kits by bucilla that the author has worked. There are pictures of them in the back. Most of the book is obvious stuff much of which is on the instruction sheets that come in the kits. She gives slightly more instruction on the basic stitches which I would assume most people who buy bucilla kits already know. All the kits mentioned are very old ones. If you want to view so one else's christmas stockings read it. There are no patterns just obvious hints and pictures of her finished projects.

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    Chapter 1

    Getting Started

    Scissors:

    Get a high quality pair of scissors.

    Doesn’t have to be expensive but it does have to be sharp, enough to cut the felt and threads cleanly, without tearing or leaving too much fuzz when done.

    Fiberfill:

    Fiberfill and a few small tools to help push the fiberfill into tight places.

    I use an old ink pen that no longer has any ink, with a removable cap that has a plastic pocket clip on it. You can use whatever you find to work for you, but that works perfect for me.

    I also use pipe cleaners instead of fiberfill when I need extra strength or the ability to make it bendable. Tooth picks work great when it is too tiny to stuff.

    Transfer Paper:

    Transfer paper will help when it comes time to add the name and a date if you are dating your items.

    Transfer paper comes in many different colors. Get a color you think you can use. I have red because most of the kits call for red thread when sewing on the name and also most of the areas to be sewn are white so it makes it easy to see. The marks from a high quality transfer paper will wash off or wear off very easy and leave no marks on your finished work.

    Tracing Paper:

    For when you want or need to make a copy of a piece of the felt, or adding the name, or just in case…

    Powder Blush:

    To finish the cheeks on the Snowmen, Santa, or the cute little animals. It is called for in a lot of kits.

    Stick Pins:

    Stick pins to help mark where you left off on a stitch or to hold the front and back of a piece together when working on them.

    Extra Needles:

    Extra needles, for the embroidery and bead work. And sometimes to get out knots in the threads.

    Plastic Baggies:

    Clear plastic baggies of different sizes. Gallon size or larger if you can find them to hold your work when you are not sewing on it to keep it clean and another bag to hold all the threads, beads and whatnots. Sandwich size to keep your thread separate and easy to get to and another to keep the felt pieces you are working with in one place, and snack size to keep the beads and sequins of the different colors separate. I find it much easier to bag them by color and only use one color at a time. I put all the little baggies of beads and sequins in a sandwich size bag to keep them all together, then into a gallon sized bag with the threads and whatnots. Keeping your space sorted and tidy will help speed up the sewing time.

    Extra Felt:

    Extra felt. I save all the larger scraps of felt that I have left over from all the kits I’ve done throughout the years. I also buy felt from craft stores in various colors and sizes. I’ll explain more later in this book why this might come in handy.

    Extra Thread:

    Extra thread. Red, black and white seem to be the most frequent colors I run out of. Having extra thread to finish the project is important because sometimes there just isn’t enough in the kit to get the job done. I have one of every color DMC® thread made and have used them over the years for sewing on buttons, mending holes in clothes and finishing up these projects. It is so easy to match the colors this way, but you don’t need to go that far unless you want to. Save the left over thread from previous kits. You’ll be surprised how often it will come in handy and saves you money.

    A Bead Container:

    A container to open and hold the beads and sequins when you are applying them to the stocking. I use an old 12x 6x1" plastic Tupperware® box with snap on lid. That way I just have to open one baggie of beads at a time into the

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