Sew Felt Spring Flower Brooches With My Primroses Pattern!

Do you know what the absolute best part of my job is? It's seeing things people have made from my patterns!

This fabulous photo Daniela, aka ivyarch, shared of the brooches she's been making from my Primroses & Auriculas pattern has brought me such joy this week:

I love the bright colours Daniela has chosen and I adore how the brooches look when worn together like that.

Want to sew your own version of these brooches? My Primroses and Auriculas pattern is available as a printable PDF from my Etsy shop as an instant download.

The tutorial includes templates and step by step instructions for sewing primroses and auriculas, floral trios and single flowers (with or without leaves), and lots of ideas for different colour combos.

As well as using it to make brooches (perfect for adorning your jackets and cardigans this spring) you could also use these patterns to make spring flowers for decorating anything you fancy. Hair clips! Floral crowns! Purses! Pincushions! Even cushions!

For even more spring flowers, check out my tutorial archive for loads of free floral projects and sign up to my pattern newsletter - the next free project I'll be sharing is two little daffodil / narcissi embroidery patterns! Here's a sneak peek of one of them...

... I'm just waiting for a delivery of 4 inch embroidery hoops so I can frame both designs and take some decent photos of them, then I'll be sending out the newsletter asap.

Show and Tell, part three

As promised... more pictures from my lovely customers of things they've been making with felt from my shops!

Véronique of VerteAdelie used the felt to make pretty pinwheel necklaces:
Stephanie of NaturallyHeartFelt has been making needlebooks, felt-covered notebooks and embellished tote bags:
Judit of Fércművek made a whole army of pastel bunnies:
Amy of Cooking, Cakes & Children helped her daughter make this fab ornament at Christmas:
And Ruth of NiceDayDesigns has been making loads of stuff, including custom appliqued t-shirts and cute pincushions:
As I said before, if you've bought felt or other supplies from me and want to show off what you've been making please do get in touch. It really is awesome to find out what all those bundles of felt turn into!

P.S. please respect the work of my customers as you do mine, and don't copy their designs :)

Show and Tell, part two

Last autumn I did a show and tell post featuring some of the great things my customers have been making... and since then I've been sent loads of lovely pictures! So many in fact that I'm going to have to do two posts this week to catch up. First up...

Barby of Morning Glory Workshop has been using the felt to make tiny clothes for her adorable needle felted mice:
Susan of Fat Hen and Flo made fun owl craft kits for kids and felt hats for her Flo dolls:
Beverley of RubyReloved is busy making flower brooches and these incredibly detailed cocktail hats:
Daniela of Ananaw made a whole range of pretty butterfly brooches in bright colours:
And Julie of SprinklesOnTop has been making lots of layered floral hair accessories:
More customer photos coming later this week!

If you'd like your photos to be included in a future Show and Tell post, please do get in touch...

P.S. please respect the work of my customers as you do mine, and don't copy their designs :)

I Love My Customers

All my customers are awesome. Truly. But some make me smile more than others, and the ones who send photos of my items in use make me grin for whole days! The latest wonderful, grin-inducing photo comes from Jessica who is so lovely that she blogged it too:
You may notice that I've added quite a few links to my "interviews and features" section down on the right there in the last few days, as I've been busy compiling a proper scrapbook record of them all. It's taken me a while having lost lots of links etc during our last batch of internet browser issues but I'm getting there... As well as having guilt at using up all the ink in my dad's printer making said scrapbook, I'm embarrased to discover that there are so many kind people whom I neglected to give a shout-out too! Please accept a belated THANKYOU! for your sweetness, one and all. I will try harder in future I promise :)