A Fish…

Good morning friends, followers and visitors. I’ve been a bit down the past couple of days… I won’t go into detail on here as it’s a rather private matter. To lift my spirits again I went off upstairs into my
tidyex-craftroom and I dipped into my felt stash in afternoon yesterday pondering as I wanted to use my beautiful mother of pearl shell buttons… I then thought oh! I haven’t made a fish yet as I was looking through my big file of templates.

I love to work with beads too so I mixed together some pink,silver,blue and purple seed beads. Then I went off downstairs (Ex-Craftroom is going to be my daughter’s bedroom and I have a wall desk downstairs now) I began to draw round my template onto my 100% pure wool felt fabric with a white tailors pencil. After I did all that I cut them out and proceeded to sew. The buttons and beads were added along the front with the fish face as I wanted the fish to be stuffed with some filling to pad it out and give it more shape. I then added the eye with green felt (80% wool felt marbled) and sewed on some black seed beads for a different look for a pupil. I sewed everything up with metallic thread for added texture and shine. I may make another one soon!
Thank you for visiting! Happy crafting :)

Larissa xoxo