New felt decoration "flown" in.

As my hand stitched felt partridges and matryoshka dolls have been well received I have decided to expand the range. I really enjoy making felt decorations and coming up with designs and colour combos.

 So here it is my latest design is a cute little bird house with bird. I'm rather pleased with this design. and feel it is quite on trend and quaint.  The front is done in a cream so the bird, bird hole and hand stitched climbing flowers can be seen. I've made the roof and base section the same colour as I think this works well and frames the other elements of the design.  The back section on each decoration is done in the same colour as the bird with roof and base pieces to match those on the front.
It has a hanging loop on top of thin white satin ribbon.

 A close up detail showing how the bird had an embroidered flower motif and is blanket stitched before being attached to the front of the bird house.

And a close up of some climbing flower embroidery on the front of the house. I do this free hand which helps make every decoration unique and adds a skilled touch you just don't get with mass produced decorations.

Like with the matryoshka dolls I have added a little ricrac and a button to give it abit of an on trend folk look and add interest to the front roof section.

 Here is a picture of the set of six I've made so far, I like working in sets like this as it is more time productive to cut all the pieces in one go and makes it easier to get a good spread of colour combinations.
These are now available in the shop and some will be appearing soon on Folsky for £5.99 each.

So what else in new in my crafty makings, The crochet quirky birds continue to fly off and find home with people who adore them so a few new ones have appeared to take their place and hang out on the tree with the others until someone comes to give them a home.

  Friendship teas also continue to be very popular and I suspect they will continue to do so with Christmas coming they make a lovely little gesture to pop in with a card and post to a friend you'd love a cup of tea with but they are too far away to do so easily. So iv'e made up this new set I'm really loving the colours and sentiments I've used on this batch.

I've also recently made a new batch of cards, as they are selling well in the shop and at events I attend, This is the third batch I've produced in this style but they always prove very popular here I have done six with mixed sentiments, such as Thank you, congratulations and for you.

And I've also got six that say Happy Birthday as this is always the most popular sort of card and with the mix of colours and patterns on the embossed cards there's something to suit everyone.
I'm hoping to be able to add more cards to the selection available in the shop soon, its just finding the time to sit down and make batches.
I'm also soon getting stuck in to me Christmas Crafting so check back soon to see how that is coming along.