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

April 29, 2022 by Liza Adams

 

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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Pencil Cross Stitch Patterns

Last year I shared my cute pencil cross stitch bookmark pattern, so I thought this year maybe I would look for more pencil cross stitch patterns to celebrate back to school or the writer in your life. 

If you’re looking for a fancier version of a pencil bookmark, check out this pretty one from Embrovera. It has pretty flowers and hearts around the pencil with a stitched border. It measures 27 by 86 stitches and comes out to 1.9 by 6.1 inches, or 4.9 by 15.6 cm, stitched on 14 count fabric. 

Speaking of flowers, there’s also this floral pencil cross stitch design from Oh My Stitches Shop. The pencil is black on this one but you could make it any color you like. It measures 37 by 102 stitches and uses 17 colors. On 14 count fabric it is 2.36 by 7.08 inches, or 6.71 by 18.5 cm. 

If you want to stitch a pencil that’s a cute teacher gift for back to school, try this one from Daily Cross Stitch, which features a pencil stretched into a heart shape and a heart shaped eraser. It calls for 11 colors and is 65 by 52. On 14 count fabric that comes to 4.64 by 3.71 inches, or 11.78 by 9.42 cm. 

There’s also this cute chubby pencil with the word learn from Stitch Gallery PDF that would be cute for a teacher (or a homeschool classroom). It looks like it uses five colors and the designer suggests using a piece of fabric that’s around 7 inches/17.6 cm square for this project. 

How about a teeny tiny pencil cross stitch pattern? This one from Bella Rose Craft also includes a wee apple design, and these mini patterns would be cute as a necklace or keychain charm. And at 7 by 13 stitches you can finish this one up in no time. 

Stitch the pencil alone or with this cute collection of school supplies that includes a glue bottle, crayons and calculator. The pattern is from sosacaetano, and it would be so cute for a classroom or stitched on a card. The full design as show is 6 by 1.75 inches (15.24 by 4.44 cm) on 14 count fabric. 

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