Repurposing Day 18: Felt Flower Poufs

I'm doing another re-post today for a repurposing project.  This is a cute and easy way to spice up an old sweater, cardigan, scarf etc...enjoy!  I promise I have new projects to post soon!  After making my felt stockings, I've had a ton of leftover felt. So, I decided to try making these flower poufs, which ended up being very easy!! You can pin one on a sweater, headband, barrette, use it to decorate a package...the possibilities are endless!




First, you need to cut 8 felt rounds, the bigger the circle, the bigger your pouf will be.



Then, you are going to take four of the circles and fold them into fourths


Once they are folded, you need to pin them together to form a circle like pictured below. Use lots of pins because they are a little tricky to work with at this point.


After you have them pinned, simply sew them by hand in the center. Mine does not look pretty and I just kinda randomly sewed. This will not show in the end, so you basically are just making sure that nothing comes loose!



After you have sewed the first four circles, you will take the next four and do the same thing. Once they are folded, just layer them right on top of the four that are already sewn, and continue attaching so that you now have two layers of four folded felt circles.


After everything is attached, remove all the pins and you have a cute little pouf!! See, none of the messy stitching shows!

Fabric Flowers

Here is the other project that we did in MOPS.  I took this fabric flower tutorial and changed it up a bit. (Just like I did with Jane's headband awhile back).  We cut 4-5 circles of fabric in different sizes and layered them on top of each other.  Then, we chose a center for the flower.  Tiny buttons, beads and pom poms work well.  After sewing in the center, we either made it into a little hair clip or a magnet. Lula's hair clip looks so cute and our fridge now has a few cute magnets! Love it!

 

These would also make great little gifts. So simple and inexpensive.

giftcard pillowcase

Here's a cute idea when giving a gift card.  To keep it from feeling "ho hum" and impersonal, make a tiny pillowcase to put your gift card in!

I did not take step by step instructions, but you basically take a rectangle of fabric, fold one edge over twice and stitch down (to make the open edge).  Then, fold right sides together and stitch, leaving the first folded edge open. 

Pair it with a handmade card like I did!

Festive Flags

Even though we are keeping baby #2's nursery the same as it was for Lula, I still wanted to add a few elements to spice things up and make it more personal for this baby. I've been seeing a lot of fabric flag creations on etsy and other places and decided to make one of my own!

I followed the directions for the flag banner in One Yard Wonders, although you don't really  need many directions at all! I basically made 2 triangles of fabric, sewed them together like you would a pillow, leaving the short end open.  Then, just attach all the flags with bias tape. That's it! 

I can't wait to see how this will look up in the nursery!

More Fabric Cards

I made a new card the other day for my mom's birthday (Lolly is her grandma name if you are curious). 

 

I decided it would be cute to make letters this time around.  See my previous post of instructions on how to make a fabric card. This one is pretty much the same except you are cutting your fabric into letters and sewing them on.

felt barrettes

First of all, sorry for the long delay in posting! The holidays have been crazy, apparently. I have a lot of things up my sleeve to post, so stay tuned! I will try not to be absent for so long again!

Once again, I've been trying to come up with clever way to use all of my felt scraps. Lula needed a hair accessory to match her brown Christmas dress, so I made a simple flower, sewed a button on and hot glued it to a barrette! It turned out super cute and the only sewing, was just the button!

I also made a little leaf barrette for my niece, Maelie:

I did do some hand stitching on this one to add a little bit of detail. I might have to make another one for Lula!

Here is a view of the back:

Scrap Doll Quilt

Lula is getting a new baby doll for Christmas along with my old doll cradle that my dad made which I will be re-painting. Every baby doll needs her own quilt, so I decided to make some with some scraps! I found this great little quilt tutorial on sew mama sew.  I haven't made a quilt in a very long time, and this was so easy, anyone could do it!! My mom was nice enough to let me use some of her fun scraps since I don't have a lot. I think it turned out super cute!

I basically just randomly cut scraps into squares and rectangles

Then, I just pinned them on top of the layers of the quilt. (See the sew mama sew link for a better tutorial!)

detail of the back

 

Handmade Fabric Cards

I have so many people tell me that they are impressed with something I've made because they are just "not crafty or creative" and "can't do it". Well, now there are no more excuses because I will be showing everyone the things that I make and that they really are easy! I rarely come up with an idea on my own, it's usually something I've seen someone else do and I just modify it a little bit! Here is one of those ideas--fabric cards! I saw a version of these on a blog and decided to try it with my own twist. It's a great way to use up those scraps!

first, I take some scraps and lay them out on a card or folded piece of cardstock until I acheive a composition that I like:

Next, I literally sew the pieces onto the paper. I don't worry about backstitching or making my seams perfect. I prefer a more ru

stic look:

Then, I trim off all the edges:

I love the look of the stitching on the back of the card, but if you did not like this, you could glue a piece of pape

r on top of it:

The finished product!

here are some others that I love:

My next idea is to use all handmade wrapping paper for Christmas gifts this year! I am sure I will do a post on that in the near future!

Happy card making!