Late last year I bought a lovely vintage felt bird ornaments kit from Etsy, fully intending to make them over my Christmas break. Did I actually do this? No. Did the kit get put in a drawer while I got distracted by other projects? Yes. Will I actually sew them this year? I hope so.
The kit comes with precut felt shapes instead of pattern pieces, but the felt isn't great quality so when I sorted out the pieces last year I traced around them to make templates so I can use felt from my stash instead.
I think I must have been watching The Day After Tomorrow while tracing the pieces as I'd scribbled "We've hit a critical desalinization point!" in one corner of the paper. I was a bit confused about what this cryptic sentence could mean until I remembered the scene from the movie in which one of the scientists says that and everyone gasps in horror (this makes me laugh every time I watch that film, it's just so silly).
Anyway...
I'll have lots of sewing to keep me busy in the evenings this winter, as I've also treated myself to a couple of Alicia Paulson's gorgeous ornament kits. I've admired her ornaments for years, but the newest kit, "Winter Cabin" (which includes a bird! and a tea kettle!) was just too lovely to resist...
... I also bought the "Ice Skating Afternoon" kit. It was very hard narrowing my selection down to just two kits, all the designs are so charming.
I'm very excited about making these!
The ornament kits are available from Alicia's shop, HERE and the designs are also available as digital patterns HERE.
5 comments:
I adore her kits! Have fun making them :D
Oooh - I admired the iceskating ornament kit back when Alicia first brought it out... I may have to add this to my Christmas wishlist :-)
Ooh, they really are lovely kits. If my budget would stretch to it (and if I truly believed I'd find the time between now and Christmas to make them) I would choose the mitten/coat/polar bear kit for myself.
Those are really lovely, going to check her shop out. I tell myself every year that I'll finish all those Christmas projects I've started in the summer by Christmas Eve. Of course it rarely happens as my shop over runs my life for 2 months every year lol, but I should get an A+ for effort.
They're really lovely, aren't they? I can't wait for them to arrive... though I think I might need to work on my embroidery skills a bit before I start work on them!
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