Brown felted purse

Here is the first purse, lined and ready to go!

2 more felted purse designs

This is a purse I designed in Mainland yarn (80% baby alpaca, 20% silk). My local Yarn shop offered to display them in her window to try to sell them. It's crocheted and felted. It doesn't show up very well in the photo, but there are 5 dots above the dark brown botton and 3 at the top. They are actually raised bumps. The handle goes from light brown at he bottom and into dark brown as it goes up.

This one is made from Cascade 220 yarn (100% wool). My idea for this one came from a paint idea card from Canadian Tire!

Here's the sketch and said paint chip! I think I interpreted it fairly well. I love the design idea paint chips, they are a wealth of creative ideas and inspiration!

Notice the 3 handles? I made them using a twisted cord method. Very tricky to figure out, but adds a nice touch I think. I'll try to post pics when they are completely finished. The brown one is just drying, then I'll line it, then off to the yarn shop I go! Wish me luck:)

Halloween

This was my youngest daughter dressed up for her school Halloween party. She enjoyed herself thoroughly!

This was her actual Halloween costume. She did her makeup herself. I think she did a fantastic job!


This is my oldest daughter. Her 11th birthday was Oct 30. She had a Harry Potter / Wizard party sleepover planned, but due to unfortunate circumstances ( her sister and one of the guests having the flu)it is now rescheduled. Doesn't she make a good Hermione Granger? We even ordered authentic Harry Potter carved wooden wands (she had Hermione's vine carved one from the movies) and the Time Turner necklace Hermione wears in Prisoner of Azkaban. The broom was from Walmart:) The tie was her dad's from his school uniform from England when he was around 7 yrs old or so.

Hallowe'en

This was my youngest daughter's pumpkin. she decorated it herself.

These were our Jack'o lanterns this year. The girls carved them the beginning of October, so by the time Hallowe'en finally arrived, they had started to rot and mold! Did we ever get compliments on them! It looked like they had been burned and people kept asking how we did it! Lol! Unfortuneately I didn't get a picture before my husband pitched it in the bin:(

This was my oldest daughter's pumpkin. She wanted a horse on hers.

Merlin

This was Merlin when we first got him at 8 weeks old. We were told he was part Persian.
This is Merlin now at almost 6 mths of age. By the way, I googled cat breeds and he is most definitely a Flame Point SIAMESE!! Crossed with a tabby, hence the stripey tail:)

Witch's Brew

The little white bowl from a couple of posts ago reminded me of a little fat cauldron. With Halloween coming up I decided to get creative and made myself a black cauldron purse, complete with toxic green witch's potion bubbling in it! I even found some green polar fleece to match for my lining. The liner is just sitting in it for now, waiting for me to finish sewing and installing it. It was giving me grief. I have it cut, but fitting it in properly is proving to be a challenge:) I'm debating on a drawstring in the liner so it can be closed, but you could also just fold it in to keep stuff safe. ...

The liner reminds me of a Kleenex. Maybe it could be made to hold a box of tissues? Hmmmm...

I made it using Black Cascade 220 wool and Patons Classic wool in Leaf Green. It was then felted in my Whirlpool Duet front load washer.

(I really need to get a proper light and set up a nicer area to take my photos!)

I felted another bag at the same time made in Alafoss Lopi. (*Note to self, don't do that again:) For anyone not familiar with Lopi yarn, it sheds dreadfully in the washer and the end result is a purse fit for Bigfoot!

A new adventure!

They say sometimes opportunity knocks and you should answer the door. Sometimes though, you can get so distracted that opportunity has to knock you over the head to get you to answer it! That has happened to me.

I used to do a lot of plastic canvas a few years ago but got bored with it. I had some left over tapestry wool that I hadn't used and didn't know what to do with it. I thought of crocheting something out of it, but dreaded weaving in all those ends as the skeins are very tiny. I decided to try felting it and made a very colorful fish hot pad and a small purse for myself. That was a couple of years ago.



Also around that time, as I was experimenting with felting, I saw an ad for a design contest on Elann.com. You had to use their yarn. I finally came up with a design and ordered the yarn, however, by this time, the deadline was almost upon me. By the time I got the purse figured out and made, the deadline was waaay past! :( Not to be put off, I decided to use the purse myself.

The purse was made to look like a flame when the flap was opened. I decided to call it "Eternal Flame" and made it to represent the eternal flame of hope kind of like they use in the Olympics.



To make a long story short, I have been using these 2 purses for a couple of years now and I am still getting as many comments on them now as I did when I first made them! The message finally sunk in one day (personally, I got tired of being hit over the head :) and I have decided to design, make and sell my crocheted felted purses! I'm just in the process of making a few purses to start and looking into maybe setting up a web site. I'm taking this one day at a time for now.

This is the first one of many. It's made from Lion Brand Wool in Lemon Grass and cocoa.