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Joanne from Craft Passion made these fun little turtle pincushions. The back is pieced from hexagons to look like a turtle shell. Read more about the turtle pincushion at Craft Passion blog.
[photo from Craft Passion]
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I am just smitten with this felt gingerbread house bag. This would make such a sweet special Christmas accessory for a kid. It’s a free pattern at Benzie Design, designed by Gracie from Hello Gracie Makes. It’s packed with adorable gingerbread house details, like swirls and stripes and scallops adoring the doors and windows.
And while all those details might seem like this would be a complicated pattern, it’s actually not. The bag itself is made from felt, which makes finishes edges unnecessary. (All of those scalloped edges are just cut from felt, no edge finishing required.) The strap is super simple, made from rope with knotted ends. And all those details are made with some basic hand embroidery stitches. Sparkle felt makes it extra cute.
The striped scallop roof is actually the top flap of the bag. A magnetic snap makes it a secure closure. The rope straps are attached through felt loops at the side of the bag.
They rate this project as an intermediate level, and it should take about 6 hours to make start to finish. That’s doable for a Saturday project or a couple of evenings. Full color photos step you through the entire process.
The project includes a shopping list for all of your supplies. They’ve got a shop so you can order all of them from Benzie if you like and get exactly the supplies used in the project. I noticed it includes a pair of scallop shears, which makes cutting all the scalloped edges for the roof and around the door a breeze.
Finished dimensions of the little felt gingerbread bag are approximately 6 ½” wide x 7 ½” tall. That’s the perfect size to hold a small book, a small toy, or a notepad and some cute pens.
Go to Benzie Design to get the tutorial and free pattern for the felt gingerbread house bag.
I saw adoreable turtle tutorial and printed out the instructions but not the pattern. Now I am trying to go to the site to get the pdf. It keeps saying Failure to Connect to Web Site. Anyone know why this is? The cutest thing I have seen, sure hope I can get to it. Thank you very much.
Ardith, The author was having difficulty with the technology required to create an electronic copy of the pattern. She has it all worked out now and has a pattern you can download. Here’s a link to the tutorial post that has the pattern:
http://www.craftpassion.com/2010/04/sewing-tutorial-turtle-pincushion-with-pattern.html
(you’ll need to scroll down to roughly the 5th paragraph to find the link.)
–Anne