Wednesday 31 December 2014

New Year Offers!!


awesome polka dot buttons

To welcome in 2015 we have some great new year offers!
All our buttons have 10% off during January.
A Selection of The Felt Fairy's Button Range

And for all you lovely customers who keep coming back, if you place two orders from 1 January 2015 you will then get 10% off any subsequent order until the end of April 2015.


Helen Felt Fairy

Seller of felt and other colourful craft supplies, 1 daughter, 1 husband, 2 dogs and a large glass of wine!

Sunday 14 September 2014

Inspiration - Felt Tutorials on Pinterest


Felt Tutorials on Pinterest

Have you got a big stash of felt which needs making into something?  We've been pinning lots of great tutorials to our Pinterest page.

These are a few of our favourites ...

Pink house hoop art using felt shapes


Find this fantastic hoop art tutorial at Little Pink House

Rainbow felt ball toy tutorial

This great little rainbow ball tutorial can be found at Duo Fiberworks

Felt superhero mask tutorials

Everyone should have their own superhero mask! Find out how to make yours at Handmade Frenzy

Buy felt here
Buy embroidery hoops here
Helen Felt Fairy

Seller of felt and other colourful craft supplies, 1 daughter, 1 husband, 2 dogs and a large glass of wine!

Wednesday 27 August 2014

New Felt Square Colour Collections - Felt Sevens!


Away with the fairies felt squares pack in pastel shades


We have just added a brand new collection of felt square packs to the shop. Called 'The Felt Sevens', each pack contains 7 sheets of felt in 7 colours.  They are available in 6", 9" and 12" squares and the very popular 9" x 4.5" size.

Our felt sevens - felt square packs

There are 14 different packs to choose from ... you can find them here.

The Brights and Spring Blooms both contain our brand new felt shade - Fuchsia.

Our new shade of felt on tags

Helen Felt Fairy

Seller of felt and other colourful craft supplies, 1 daughter, 1 husband, 2 dogs and a large glass of wine!

Thursday 31 July 2014

Ever-Sew-Easy Felt Bird Bunting - Tutorial





Have you ever wanted to make felt bird bunting but not known where to start? The Felt Fairy can help! This tutorial has been written for us by Perdita, of Perdita's Personalised Bunting. Pop over to her Facebook page and take a look at more of the beautiful bunting she makes.

This bunting is very simple to make, you don't need to be experienced with a needle and thread, and you can use up all sorts of scraps of felt and beads, buttons or sequins you have lying around.
This will produce a 1.5m length of bunting.

Ingredients:
Felt, buttons, ribbon and sequins to make bunting


Felt - I started with a pack of multi-coloured 4 inch squares and then rootled through my scrap box for the smaller bits and pieces.
Threads - I always sew with embroidery silks - two threads at a time (makes one skien go SO much further!), but you could use cotton or thin wool as well.
Sequins - Coloured sequins to match the colour felts and black sequins.
Beads - You will need coloured seed beads, black seed beads and brown bugle beads.
Buttons - A selection of coloured buttons about the size of a 10p
Wadding - Little scraps of thin wadding, or kapok style toy stuffing.
Ribbon - 1.5m length of plain ribbon or bias binding.

How to:
Draw a basic bird shape - the simpler the better, draw a wing shape that fits nicely within the birds body.
Start to cut out your felt birds - for each bird you will need two bird body shapes and one wing.
I chose to cut the wings in a shade lighter or darker than the bird's body - but you could use contrasting colours, or even white birds with coloured wings. Play with the colours until you have cut out enough pieces for 14 birds.

Pink felt birds for sewing

Lay out your birds to decide which way you want them all to face.
Decide on the decorations for each bird - I used sequins (3 per wing) or coloured seed beads.
Tack the wing into place and stitch onto the top side of each bird - any stitch looks good - you could try running, blanket or back.
Sew your wing decoration in place.

How to sew on a birds wing

Next - give your bird an eye. Place a black sequin on top of the bird body where you want the eye to be, place a little scrap of felt underneath the bird body (directly underneath the sequin). Push your needle through the scrap of felt, through the body and our through the hole in the sequin, place a little black seed bead on your needle and pull it flush with the sequin. Push the needle back through the sequin and tie off tightly. The little scrap of felt allows you to secure the eye safely without puckering your bird's body.

How to sew on a sequin eye

Next, cut a little scrap of wadding to puff out your bird's body. Place the wadding between the top side of the bird (with the wing and eye) and the plain back body.

How to add wadding to your bird

Tack this together roughly. Starting halfway down the bird's chest stitch around the body - again using a stitch with which you are comfortable, I use a blanket stitch but running stitch would do just as well.
When you reach the birds head take two brown bugle beads. When you have reached the beaks position simply thread the two bugle beads onto your needle and wiggle them down until they touch the felt - they will automatically create a beak shape - if you carry on sewing your beaded beak will stay tight and in place.

How to make a bead beak for the bird

Carry on around the body until you have stitched all the way round the bird.
Then - repeat the above until you have 14 birds!

Hand sewn felt bird decorations

14 completed felt birds

When you have 14 birds, lay out your length of ribbon or bias binding. Lay out your birds along the ribbon until you are happy with the pattern, I put a co-ordinating colour button between each bird.

How to join up bunting

Gently tack the birds into place.

Starting at one end, turn the end of the ribbon under itself and secure, make a loop and stitch in place. Sew the first button with coloured silk, then a bird (I used clear acrylic thread to hide the stitches on the back of the ribbon) making sure not to pierce through to the front of the bird, then a button etc, etc until all your birds are stitched in place. Turn the end of the ribbon under itself and secure, make a loop and stitch in place.

Finished Felt Bunting

Hang up your bunting and feel very proud of your new creation!

Thank you Perdita, for a fab tutorial!
Please don't forget to take a look at her Facebook page - click here!

If you fancy making felt bird bunting you can find most of the things you will need at thefeltfairy.com

Click here for Felt Squares
Click here for Buttons
Click here for Sequins
Click here for Ribbon
Click here for Embroidery Thread
Helen Felt Fairy

Seller of felt and other colourful craft supplies, 1 daughter, 1 husband, 2 dogs and a large glass of wine!

Monday 28 July 2014

Welcome to the New Look Felt Fairy Website!!


A rainbow of bright felt shades

We've been working hard over the last few weeks to make our website bigger, brighter and better! And this is the result ... hope you like it! To celebrate the new look we have a great special offer running to the end of August - read on to find out more. First of all though, would you like to know what's new? Of course you would! As well as all the usual Felt Fairy felt squares and packs, we can now cut your felt for you into a great range of shapes ... here are just a few, click on the pic to see more :)

Felt butterflies, circles, flowers and petals

We are now stocking felt balls in individual colours - 20 great shades in total ...

20 colours of wool felt balls
 

We also have lots and lots of buttons! Including these beauties ...

bright stripy buttons in rainbow colours

There are many more fab things about this website, and we'll be blogging about all the great features over the coming weeks. There will also be a cute little tutorial coming up soon to keep you busy! Now back to that special offer ... would you like 10% off? You would?! In that case all you need to do is place an order on our new website before the end of August and you will get 10% off your next order. Simple!
Helen Felt Fairy

Seller of felt and other colourful craft supplies, 1 daughter, 1 husband, 2 dogs and a large glass of wine!