Creatures of felt & yarn

I made this friendly little mushroom out of felt. I hand embroidered him with basic cotton embroidery thread & some sequins. Felt craft is fun & cheap & adults & kids can both do it!

This friendly little outer space rabbit was a lot of fun to make. You can buy cheap felt from any craft store & sometimes places like cheap as chips even stock it. I used teddy bear eyes from the craft shop.

This little alien has vintage buttons for eyes. Normally I would stuff my toys with craft stuffing which is available from places like spotlight crafts & sometimes Kmart. When I made this little guy I had run out of stuffing so I went to the bathroom cabinet & raided the cotton balls. Cotton balls make great stuffing provided that your felt friend is relatively small

This little guy is a friendly little monster. I used blanket stitch around the edges of this little crafty purple spotted creature

This little felt creation is a monster who only eats strawberries & apples

I crafted this felt apple as an homage to the plastic fruit that always lived in my Nana's fruit bowl

When I originally crafted this giant felt strawberry it was half the size, but it just kept eating the other strawberries in the punnet & it got fat.

Happy crafting illy

Garden Craft

My Garden is a total suburban jungle, which I am told is whats known as a cottage garden. I think when I began encouraging the weeds to grow & the geraniums to go feral is when my cottage garden tipped over the line into jungle. The fabulous elephant is handmade in thailand & I got him at a bargain price because he has a broken foot.

This is my front gate. I have decorated it with a strip of knitted nylon yarn

The art of randomly decorating the everyday environment with knitting or crochet is commonly known as YARN BOMBING.

I like to fill the garden with little treasures like teapots with missing lids, old bottles & mosaics

I decorated these bricks myself. I did the mosaic design on these ornamental pavers utilizing broken plates. I had a lot of fun smashing plates. These were fun & easy to make. Make sure you wear goggles or safety glasses whilst smashing plates & have some band aids on hand just in case.

Happy crafting Illy