The best time for doing felt crafts...

[wiseheart]

... is when you're waiting for some workman or other who's promised to arrive, say, sometime between 12 and 4pm. You can't start anything serious because you can never know when he's going to arrive - but stitching around a small felt object you can always do. Besides, while focusing on making the decorative stitches even, you can forget about being angry at the people who're stealing your precious time...

I was waiting for the Vodafone techie today - not my idea, they were doing some general quality control in the area - so I took out my mini-mittens and made considerable progress. I've finished the fourth batch - the ones with the star applications - and started the last one.

For this batch, I chose little Christmas trees; which, fortunately I found in my stash in the form of a ribbon that was made up of interconnected little pine trees. Since I only have red and green mittens left (save for one that's white), and the trees are naturally all green, I cut out small white circles with the help of an old coin and a pair of zigzag scissors and sewed the little trees on them. With red yarn. They look very nice that way. The white circles then will be sewn onto the mittens: with red yarn onto the green ones and with green yarn onto the red ones.

Since the mittens themselves have been cut out from felt rests of various sizes, I was left with half a red and half a white one. The first plan was to make a mitten that's red on one side and white on the other one. But then I chose to be cunning: I cobbled together the missing halves from smaller felt rests, with the help of double-sided tape. No, really, it doesn't look as bad as one will think; and besides, they'll be sewn together in the end anyway, so I can hide the glued parts behind the blanket stitch.

Current mitten count: 20 finished, 2 half-done, 4 more to go.


I've also started the popsickle project, giving these angels a try. Well, one angel anyway. Mine is totally different (there will be pictures later), not half this professional, but I'm quite pleased with the outcome. Recently, I've also made a snowflake ornament, based on these, although much more minimalistic. The plan is to give various ornaments a try and then start mass production on those that cause the least problems. *g*

Other than that, I made cheesy buns like these:



Mum likes them very much, and they're ridiculously easy to make, so I thought I'd give her a bit of joy. And that was, basically, the day. I'm looking forward to a bit of rest... and to today's re-run of the GBBO. ;)

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They are very yummy indeed — and dead easy to make.