Here is her felted wool birthday crown! I got the basic pattern from my crafty friend Wintry who makes adorable birthday crowns as gifts and to sell. I was hoping to adorn the crown with some needle-felted designs, but since I was doing this so last minute, I just had to knit in some designs before I felted it. Some good instructions for how to felt a knitted project can be found here.
Next I made her bean bags with her name stenciled on. I have already shown a set of these that I made for my son, and included a link to some instruction on a previous post.
However, this time, to prevent the paint from bleeding, I ironed a piece of freezer paper onto the BACK side of the stencil.
There was still a tiny amount of bleeding around the edges of some letters, but I thought it was a great improvement from my first set! Next time I think I may try a different brand of fabric paint as well....
And I also threw in a few homemade super-star recycled crayons. I have already posted instructions for these on a previous post. We have a great little used art supply store where I can buy a bag of broken crayons for 50-cents and this is a great way to turn them into a new treasure.
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That is so cute- You are such a great mommy and autie- I love the crayon's- so cute!
ReplyDeleteThe bean bags are great too- I do remember seeing them here.
Hope you are feeling good! all the best!
The crown turned out great!! Where did you get the star mold for the crayons? Love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies! I ordered the star mold from amazon... you can borrow it if you want!
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful gifts! Homemade gifts are the ultimate show of love, me thinks!
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