Felt Raincloud Brooch Tutorial

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The next free project for my newsletter subscribers is going to be a tutorial for sewing little felt raincloud brooches.

This is an old design I used to sell in my online shops back in the day - as you can see from that photo, I also once stitched the design on a little felt needlebook. I always enjoyed making these and I hope you guys will, too!

 

 

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A parliament of owls

I'm always thrilled to see what people have been making using my tutorials, so you can imagine how pleased I was yesterday to discover not one but two lovely photos of owls made using my felt owl brooch tutorial.

I love this photo taken by Farfalla Gialla of her owl:Such a nice setting and I love his button eyes!

And I'm amazed at how many different owls Mavi of Septiembre has been making! They look fantastic all together:

Snowy Owls

Last night I made a trio of snowy owl brooches:
The story behind these is a pretty typical one for me - I made a snowy owl brooch over a year ago as a thank-you gift, thought about developing the design and maybe doing a range of owls, did some quick drawings ... then put them away and forgot about them.

Then last night I felt in the mood to work on something new, rummaged through my stash of doodles for inspiration and found my owl sketches. I spent a very happy evening sketching and re-sketching lots of different owls, and ended up with a couple of designs that still need some tweaking plus some finished snowy owls which I just adore. They look how I wanted them to look when I first started sketching, and I think that's all I can really ever hope for!

I'll be adding them to the shops tomorrow, and hopefully it'll take me a lot less than a year to get my next owl design finished...

How To: Felt Owl Brooch

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After showing you the sneak peek at this cute little guy yesterday I just had to sit down in my tea break this afternoon and write up the tutorial for how to make your own :)

If you've been reading my blog since it started you may recognise him as he's based on an old & now discontinued design I used to sell in my Etsy shop a few years ago. I keep seeing owls popping up all over the place at the moment so it seemed like a good time to dig out my old pattern!

 

Here are some fat owls I made earlier!

 

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