Another project I recently finished: a fairy house made from felt.
This project was really a lot of work but it was it worth!
The house is made from felt with cardboard inside.
Everything is stitched by hand, the tree stumps were hell in that, the bark is totally made with stitches. I used almost two strengs of embroidery yarn.
It is a pattern from Atelier Anke, a dutch designer of feltkits. I have also made some fairies from here (which I will still blog about some time here) and I will definitely made her nice Dutch winter scene in the future.
For my felt crafting I mostly use patterns from Atelier Anke (very detailed), pop en plank (lovely antroposofic/waldorf style with do-it yourself felting) and Tintangel (very sweet mice).
All the designers have really their own style. There are designers that use wooden beads as heads, these patterns I avoid... It is very easy but it doesn't look nice, than I will gladly put a little more effort in it to make a nice fabric, wool head :).
With these dolls, felt houses etceteras I create a seasontable.
I also make bigger dolls regularly, real Waldorf dolls. It is nice to create such a huggable doll, especially when you made someone happy with it.
Together with knitting (and sometimes crocheting or sewing clothing) these are the crafting things that form one of my main hobbies. Due to my EDS I can't sport (except some biking on the tandem or so) and need hobbies I can do sitting so my body comes to rest. My hands, wrists and shoulders give also some troubles however, not handy with crafting. Therefore I use silver splints (I will blog about them sometime) and like to use thin needles, light weight yarn, circular needles, ergonomic crochet hooks etcetera so I'm sill able craft ;).
My EDS is also the reason I don't sew clothing very often; cutting and sewing bigger parts of fabric is very heavy for me...
But luckily I have enough other things I can do!
Pattern: Elfenwoning, Atelier Anke
finished begin of january 2014
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