Layered Wool Felt Flower Hair Clip or Pin

Layered Petal Posy - Wool Felt Hair Clip or Pin - by pammydawn

Organic, free-form blossom, made from hand-cutting layers of 100% wool felt interspersed with needle and wet-felted wool layers to create a textured and full bloom. Nested in the center is a needle-felted crimson nubbin. This luscious 10 layered Posy was inspired by, and made to coordinate with, the English Cottage clothing line created by the very talented Chew Bug Designs.

Hand-made from cream, cranberry, and crimson felt, and as a hair clip, will enclose up to a 2 inch snap clip or French barrette. It would be equally captivating as a lapel pin! If you are interested in any other color combination, please contact me. I have many colors of felt, and would be happy to accommodate your custom desires!

American Girl Doll Slippers

Julia loves her new American Girl doll, "Ruthie," recently acquired for her birthday, and her grandma and I have been making clothes and accessories for her. The cute green plaid flannel jammies were made by Grandma, and I thought Ruthie needed some fuzzy little slippers to wear to bed.

I used my baby shoe pattern that I previously posted about, and shrunk it on the scanner. I left the back part of the pattern off and curved the top down to meet the sole. I cut another strip of wool felt to make the back strap and needle-felted natural wool roving for the fluffy trim and in the footbed to make them nice and cushy.

If only I could make them in my size - they look comfortable!

Swedish Dala Horse Hair Clip or Pin

Traditional Swedish Dala Horse in red, yellow and blue wool. The body of the horse is 100% wool felt with details needle-felt using 100% merino wool roving.

Available as a hair clip or pin brooch, Red Dala Horse measures about 2 inches from nose to rump. It encloses a 1.5 inch snap clip.

Partridge 'n a Pear Holiday Hair Clip Gift Set

I've been focusing on some new holiday designs and here is one of the first of my new holiday line.

"On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree....." Well, not a pear TREE, but how about a Partridge AND a Pear? This lovely, unique gift set is made of 100% wool felt in lovely green, brown, and yellow with golden brown needle felted merino wool details.


Each pear and partridge are tiny works of art - the details are hand "shaded" with tiny wool fibers, so each set will be unique. Each measure between 1.5-2 inches and will enclose either 1.25 or 1.5 inch snap clips.


Also available as French barrettes or pin brooches. Please indicate your preference in the notes at checkout. Gift set will come in a gift box ready for gifting.

Needle Felted Ball - Jingle Frog!

Ribbit! I had a blast making this fun wool felt project. I imagine there must be a faster way to make wool felt balls, but I just figured out a way to make them on my own, and built up some arm muscles in the process.

I was envisioning a baby toy or rattle for the frog, so I scavenged the house for a large jingle bell, and found none. I had some teeny tiny jingle bells, so I put 3 tiny bells inside an aluminum cap for cloth-covered buttons and began winding wool roving around and around. Occasionally, I'd tuck wool fibers in using my felting needles, tiny, barbed needles used to mesh the wool fibers together into a felt.

When it would get a bit lumpy, I'd stop wrapping and begin needle felting, jabbing the needle repeatedly and rotating the ball as I went to ensure an even felt. I did this about 3 times before I wrapped the ball with green roving (I used a natural wool roving for the center as it is cheaper than the dyed wool).

After felting the green roving evenly, I formed little green balls for the eyes and attached them, then created little balls of the same, slightly darker green wool for little warty spots on his back. A bright yellow ball of fluff was added for the eyes, then a chocolate brown for the center of the eyes. I decided I wanted him to have a protuberant nose, so I sculpted a mass of green wool to his face until I had a gradually sloping face.

Lastly, I twisted some chocolate brown roving into a long string and needle felted it in place as the mouth. It rattles quite satisfactorily, and even rattles continuously if you roll it across a table because the loose bells inside the button cover tumble as it rolls.

I'm not sure who I'm going to give it to yet, or if I'm going to sell it, but it was fun to make!

Death's Head Hawk Moth Custom Pin

Nearly 5 hours of work, but I think worth it!  I'm pleased with how the custom Silence of the Lambs icon turned out.  

Four layers of felt make up the body and wings which were hand-cut and stitched.  Details were embroidered as well as needle-felted using wool roving and other wool fibers.  Its wings span approximately 4 inches from tip to tip.

Inspiration image from Silence of the Lambs

See how I made it here!

Chocolate Brown Crocheted and Felted Wool Baby Booties Mary Janes

In my ongoing crochet quest, I searched and searched for a cute pattern for baby Mary Janes.  More than 3 of my girl friends are pregnant and having girls, so I thought these would be fun shower gifts.  I finally found a pattern that I liked at Michaels, of all places, in a baby book of crochet projects.  

I had to tinker with the pattern a bit for sizing because I planned on washing the booties to "felt" them (make the fibers dense and fabric like, losing the crocheted look).  First I tried enlarging the pattern, but the resultant shoe was floppy and oddly shaped.  I finally just increased my hook size by 2 sizes and lengthened the strap a bit.  I washed the booties in ultra hot soapy water (the sanitary setting in my washer) and checked on them frequently for amount of shrinkage.  After they came out, they were so tiny!  I had to stretch and shape them up a bit, and they ended up at about a newborn to 3 month size, perfect for a baby shower.  I have yet to stitch on the velcro closure for each strap, but I anticipate that step to be pretty quick.  

If you'd like any tips, I'd be happy to share what worked best for me.  Leave me a comment on this post for further information on felting!