How To Video! Sew a Felt Elephant Family

Some fun news: CICO Books (who publish my books) have launched a craft channel on YouTube called MAKE. They'll be sharing crafty ideas at the start of each week with #MAKEonMonday, as well as behind-the-scenes videos with the authors and other bits and pieces.

This week's video features a project from my second book, Super-Cute Felt Animals: a tutorial for sewing a cute mini elephant family from felt.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

The video takes you through all the steps of making your own felt elephant (or baby elephants!) and you'll find a link underneath the video where you can download the free template sheet.

You can subscribe to the YouTube channel here or follow CICO Books on Twitter or Facebook to get notifications of their new videos and other news.

The felt elephants family is one of 35 projects from Super-Cute Felt Animals: lots of cute felt animals that fit in the palm of your hand! The projects are divided into six chapters - In the Woods, On Safari, Under the Sea, On the Farm, In the Garden and At Home - and each one has illustrated step by step instructions and full size templates so you can get crafting straight away.

Super-Cute Felt Animals is available to buy from Amazon UK, Amazon USA, the Book Depository, and many other bookshops.

P.S. When the book came out I shared a series of free projects to mix and match with the designs in Super-Cute Felt Animals. You can find all the tutorials here.

Please note: the Amazon and Book Depository links in this post are affiliate links. 

A Fun Crafty Video: The Make Escape on London Live

Remember The Make Escape, the fab free craft night I went to in London last month?

Well, the night was filmed for TV station London Live... and the segment went out this week. I sadly missed it live but - hurrah, hurrah - they've put the clip up online.

It's a really lovely little video full of crafty goodness! Plus me, in a cat sweater, talking about making paper beads :)

Update: it looks like the video is only available to view if you're in the UK. Sorry folks! x


If it doesn't play automatically, press the arrow to start the video & when it's loaded then click in the very bottom left of the screen to play the film. If you can't see the video or it doesn't work for you, click here to view it on the London Live site.

The Make Escape is a free bi-monthly craft night held at the Hackney Attic on the last Tuesday of every other month. The next event is on Tuesday 29th July at 7.30pm, with the theme of "Village Fair". Visit their blog for more details or follow them on Twitter.

A Finished Flock of Felt Birds

Over the weekend I finished all these felt bird brooches...

... you can find them in my shop, here. I've still got some birdies (bluetits and snowy owls) left to sew, but it's great to have this batch finished and out of my "work in progress" box.

There's rarely anything good on the telly when I sit down to do some sewing in the afternoons, so I usually sew while working my way through a DVD box set. Recently I've been re-watching lots of episodes of Doctor Who & Community, watching crime dramas with my mum and taking a trip down memory lane with some nostalgic VHS-viewing (so much fun!)