Felt Flower Giveaway

This is the last day of this giveaway, comment on this post now to enter, 3 winners will be drawn Friday morning.

 11 felt flowers

 Here is another one to add to the bunch to make it an even dozen to choose from

Winners will be able to choose if they want an alligator clip or pin back

7 other felt flower I made to go with another project I am working on, more to come on this later!

Tutorial: Felt Flowers

My mom found a little article on how to make these flowers in one of my magazines. It isn't my idea, but they are cute and I am going to try some variations on them. Here is how to make them, and how the first ones I made turned out.

 Start with a rectangle of felt, 6 inches by 2 1/4 or 1 1/2 is what was recommended. I used all sorts of different sizes, from 4-6 inches by 3-1 1/2 inches. Fold the felt and sew large stitches along the bottom edge.

Fold in half and snip petals in the felt, about 1/4 to 1/2 inches apart.

 Here is a piece of felt ready, petals snipped and stitched along the bottom.

 Pull the thread from both ends of the felt, making a circle, you can pull this as tight as you want, it will be more scrunched the tighter you go.

 Tie the two ends of thread together and then stitch the bottom 1/4 inch of the felt together.

 Make petal rings of different sizes and different colors. You can also snip the petals thin or thick, for a different look. To finish the flower, use hot glue to secure a circle of felt on the back of the base flower, then add a smaller flower on top of the base flower and finally, glue on a button for the center of the flower.

Here is an example of how it looks when it is finished! You could be the lucky winner of 1 of these flowers, check out the previous post!

Felt Flower Giveaway

This week 3 fans/followers will win their choice of these felt flowers. I can make them into a hair clip or a broach/pin. To enter to win, just comment on this post and let me know that you want to be entered (please make sure to include your first name as well as your last name or initial). This giveaway ends Thursday evening, the winners will be announced Friday morning. I am hoping I will have two guest name drawers to help choose the 2 extra winners! You will have to wait and see who they are! :)

Since there are no flowers in my yard yet this spring, I made a yard of flowers, 

haha, it is a bad pun, I know! :)

Side shot

Quick and Easy Crochet Blanket

Here are the finished pictures of the blanket. It ended up being about 36x31.  I also made a 16x16 lovey blanket to go with it. I finished both in 2 days! That is pretty quick for a crocheted blanket. For more info on how I made this blanket check out this previous post - How to:Quick and Easy Crochet Blanket.

Plaid Blanket Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Rachel Hayes, you won the plaid blanket! Please contact me at HoneybunchBoutique@yahoo.com to claim your prize. If you do not claim your prize within a week, I will redraw a different winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway. I will have another one next week, so stay tuned!

Plaid Blanket Giveaway: Finished Photos

Here is this week's giveaway item, a 40x40 flannel blanket. To enter to win, comment on this post or share the link to this blog on Facebook. Let me know if you share on Facebook, so you can be entered to win. The giveaway will be open until Saturday evening, enter to win now!

Tutorial: Quick and Easy Crochet Blanket

I thought I might start posting some pictures and mini tutorials on how I make some of my blankets, stuffed animals and other things.

In today's spotlight is a super easy crochet blanket that you could make in a day, if you wanted to, easily in 3! Start out with a super bulky yarn, this makes things go really fast!

 For this blanket I used Yarn Bee Soft Illusion - Super Bulky, it is from Hobby Lobby, unfortunately, I think they are discontinuing it.

When buying yarn, you want to check the lot #, get all your yarn with the same # if you can. The lot # is the dye lot, so if you have two skeins of yarn of the same color but of a different dye lot, they may be slightly different. There is also a little info panel on the label that will recommend what size of crochet hook to use. For this one it recommended a 9mm, I ended up using a 6.5, since I couldn't find my 9.

For this blanket, I did a basic double-spaced double-crochet. To make it yourself, just chain on an even #, I started out with 68, and ended up adding more later to equal and original chain of 78.Then just go back along your chain, double crochet in the 6th chain back from your hook, this will make your 1st double crochet and the first space. Next, chain one and double crochet in the 8th chain. continue all the way down. I realize this is a very basic explanation, if you want learn more about crocheting, I learned from the video tutorials that you can find on the internet.

 This is what you will end up with once you make your chain and then start double crocheting on the chain.

 With the double-spacing, there are holes in the blanket, my nephew likes to have this blanket while he sleeps.

 Since the yarn is so fuzzy, you don't see the holes in this picture.

This is the size of the blanket with 2 skeins crocheted.

I will post pictures of it when I finish it up later tonight.