DIY Felt Clutch

How to make a clutch from 2  regular 9" x 12" felt rectangles.
Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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DIY Nautical Brooch: A Modcloth Knockoff

 Don't you just love brooches? I love the "Anchors Always Pin" from Mod Cloth.

Beautiful, right? Well, let's make it.

Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Supplies:

sheet of stiff navy felt

white & red embroidery floss

embroidery needle 

pin back to make it a brooch

E6000 glue or hot glue

nautical charms/buttons/ribbon 

Cut out two pieces of stiff felt similar to this shape, whatever size you would like. Put the second one aside until the very end.

Use a washable writing utensil to draw a small circle with a line. (See picture above)

Thread your needle with the white thread and using the lines as a guide, start embroidering!

Use small, overlapped stitches. Turn on the TV or radio so you don't drive yourself nuts.

Add a small horizontal line like the picture above. It should look kind of like the female symbol.

Trace the two curvy lines of the bottom of the anchor to your felt. Embroider over those as well.

Almost done!

Add the two pointed arrow tips.

                                    

 Optional: Use the LAZY DAISY STITCH in red to copy the rope detail.

Add whatever charms or decorations you like with glue.

Squeeze some glue all over the back of the pin and line up the other felt shape you set aside earlier.

This will hide the messy work in the back. Now you have a flat surface to glue your pin back too!

YAY for handmade knockoffs!

Instead of a pin, you could glue it to a lamp for a nautical themed room!

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DIY Mini Top Hat

Level: ●●●○

And Threadbanger's tutorial- http://youtu.be/z3Nx0igPai4

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November's Necklace of the month

November's necklace of the month is the.... MUSTACHE NECKLACE
Level: ●●○○

Supplies: 

• necklace chain
• felt
• piece of cardstock
• glue gun
• needle small enough to fit through chains in necklace
• thread 
• mustache template or you can create your own template (see below) 

You can print this image out in whatever size you want, or you can create your own template. Mine is about 2 inches long and one inch tall.

Glue gun, mustache cut out in felt and cardstock, necklace chain, and needle n' thread.

Sew the cardstock mustache to the necklace chain.

Hot glue the felt mustache on top of the cardstock.

Ta-da! It's so cute!

  http://youtu.be/rhZcywlDg7g -skip to 4:20



What's necklace of the month? Click here.

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