5 Free Felt Animal Mask Tutorials

It's been a while since I sent out a "monthly" free pattern to my newsletter subscribers, so this month I'm making up for it by sending out five patterns in one go!

There's a cat mask pattern, which you can use to make cats, foxes, tigers, and leopards...

... and a pattern for making brown or white bunnies.

 

You'll also be able to dress up as a mouse, a bear, or a wolf. So many fun costume possibilities!

(Posing for silly selfies is, of course, optional but highly recommended).

The mask patterns will be sent out to my current pattern newsletter subscribers sometime soon (hopefully at the weekend if we get enough good light for photos!) then they'll be available as a download for new subscribers until next month's project is released.

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Click here to visit my tutorial archive for lots more free patterns and project ideas.

Felt Masks for Halloween

I am amazed at how quickly October has come around this year! Halloween is just a few short weeks away and I've been busy posting lots of felt masks that'll be part of peoples Halloween costumes.

All my felt masks are included in my clearance sale, so you can grab a disguise for a bargain price. If you live outside of the UK and have your eye on one of the masks in my shop, please get your order in soon because international Airmail can take several weeks to arrive!

There are owl masks (£6 each) ...

 

Swan masks (£6 each) ...

And bunny masks (£5 each) ...

 

I've also got one felt moustache left in stock (£1) ...

... and one felt flower crown (£3).

Click on the photos to go to the relevant shop listings, or click here to visit my shop (a smaller selection is also available over in my Etsy shop).

Monday Making

On my sewing pile today...


... panda mask and lilac flowers.

Not quite a Black Swan...

... but a grey one!


I made this custom version of my swan mask design as a special order for a customer this week.


If you ever want one of my designs in a custom colour, do get in touch! :)

Small Things

You might have noticed that my shops have been closed for a few days - I took some (planned) time off from the day-to-day running of my online shops and then had to take some (unplanned) time off to visit some relatives.

It was nice to have a bit of a break, but I'm enjoying getting stuck into my usual work routine and am busy catching up on emails, packing orders, working on crafty schemes, etc.

Today's to do list includes making up lots of felt bundles - all 65 of my wool blend felt colours are now back in stock, hurrah!


In other news, I was really pleased to see a couple of my disguises included in a handmade halloween round-up in the lastest issue of Small Magazine:


I can't believe it'll be Halloween soon! This year is flying by so fast.

Wolves and Mice and Swans, Oh My!

The weather here this week is so miserable, wet and overcast and generally grey. I quite like autumn, the crispness of the air, digging out all my winter clothes and blankets, and all the fantastic changes in nature. But boy, do I miss the light - especially when I have new things waiting to be photographed!

This weekend I finished some new mask designs and snapped a rubbish in-progress shot in the gloomy daylight:Mice masks! Wolf masks! Swan masks! (plus essential crafting supplies - a nice bar of chocolate).

I'm so excited to get these listed in my shops after having rough sketches of them them scribbled in my "things to make" notebooks for so very long. Fingers crossed we have some lovely autumn sunshine soon.

Hello Tiger!

Thanks to the sheer awesomeness that is Tiger-print felt, you can now buy Tiger masks in my shop:Also, thanks to a mistake I made while sewing - forgetting to sew on the ear details - you can grab a bargain tiger mask HERE.

I haven't had a chance to model this design yet, but it's similar to the leopard.... GRR!Ah, the ridiculous faces I pull in the name of crafting!