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Exceptional Tutorial! Intermediate to Advanced Needle Felters, Feathered Dragon!

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I just love it when I find a beautifully detailed and stunning project for the more advanced felter like this one.  For those of us who are past the beginner basics it can be hard to find something with a bit more substance to stretch us and help us learn more about this wonderful craft.

This project is a great blend of needle and wet felting.   Alena Bobrova takes you step by step through creating the gorgeous feathers in this project and if you haven’t wet felted before her tutorial is very detailed with wonderful results.  She doesn’t take you through creating the dragon itself but this is why I consider it to be a more advanced project as you can create anything yourself that you would like to add leaves or feathers to with this technique and the more advanced felter will have no trouble coming up with something they want to try this on!

You can find the tutorial here!

So if you haven’t tried blending dry and wet felting techniques yet this is your chance to give it a go.  And, as usual, I’m a great advocate for extending your learning and taking on techniques that really get you thinking of other ways you can make use of them.

Have a wonderful time checking out this tutorial and I do hope you enjoy it.

Happy Felting!

 

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Make Your Cross Stitch into an Iron On Patch

A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere. 

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own. 

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to. 

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag. 

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]