tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75854687937580273902024-03-13T21:04:02.434-05:00The Sassy Pack RatA felt lovers creations, finds and tutorialssassypackrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468918445442314685noreply@blogger.comBlogger611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585468793758027390.post-60584401385864696122018-03-04T15:46:00.001-06:002018-03-04T15:46:24.639-06:00Further Progress and A Full Look<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'm making this 3D Felt Art Piece for my brother's birthday. Unfortunately I won't have a St. Patrick's Day Free project but should have an Easter/Spring one. So stay tuned!</span>sassypackrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468918445442314685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585468793758027390.post-42363526173426595502018-02-23T15:31:00.000-06:002018-02-23T15:31:15.604-06:00Studio Pic Of The Week<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> For the 2017 Halloween Season, I designed a set of 3 ornaments that are slightly different than last years' patterns but still coordinate with the 1st set. This set will be sold in a bundle of the 3 together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I designed a scary Witch's Black Cat. Most of my ornament designs are usually faces, so it was a treat to do a whole body this time. We've had 3 black cats over the years so I consider this one a friendly cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jack 'O Lantern/ Pumpkin can go with my previous Halloween ornaments which, if you missed the pattern club last year are all <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/sassypackratstudios" target="_blank">now available in my etsy shop.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First I printed out my pattern on Freezer Paper and then cut shapes out and ironed them onto the felt. I'm currently and massively in love with freezer paper right now. It's so handy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: black;">I became ill last year and it's affected my desire and patience for creating. I'm learning to live with a new me as the symptoms are only partially managed by medication.</span><b> </b> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some Printable Holiday Tags Just For You!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wishing you all a very Jolly Holidays!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really wanted to make a fun freebie for you all but time got away from me and the Christmas Ornament Club is taking up a lot more time than I thought.</span><br />
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sassypackrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468918445442314685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585468793758027390.post-29277396230646693092016-11-02T13:13:00.000-05:002016-11-02T13:15:32.519-05:00My Special Day of the Dead Couple.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made this awesome couple in the Spring of 2015 but I never really showed wips or good final pics so I thought today was perfect to do that, being Day of the Dead and all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Close up of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estella's Face. Don't have on like this of Ernesto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The lovers together!</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ernesto is 17.5 inches tall and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estella is 17 inches tall.</span> </span><b>They are available in my shop.</b> <a href="http://bit.ly/2ea7ziG" target="_blank">Here's a link to the listing</a> where you can see more photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Woo hoo look at all this goodness from <a href="https://busylittlebird.com/" target="_blank">Busy Little Bird! </a>If you don't win you can still <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">purchase</span> an already made pack just fo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r</span> the Christmas Ornament Pattern Clu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">b! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> I have reduced the add-on accessories pattern's prices and the Penguin with the original accessories combo have both been reduced through the holidays! <span style="color: red;"><b>You won't want to miss that! </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I plan on, fingers crossed, a Christmas add-on set, but with the Christmas Pattern Club not sure I'll have the time. If you are interested seriously let me know and I'll get something done!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sign ups start <span style="color: red;"><b>November 1st and end November 10th</b></span>. There will be<b> 6 ornaments in this club. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The email with the link for the first pattern will go out on <b>November 12th</b>. the <b>2nd November 19th,</b> the <b>3rd November 26th</b>, the <b>4th December 3rd</b>, the <b>5th December 10th</b> and finally the <b>6th ornament on December 17th.</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yarn in various Halloween colors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Super sharp small scissors.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Halloween characters and banner printables PDF</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">80lb cover-stock, I used 90 but 80 is stiffer.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> First make all the mini poms you'll need. I used 4 colors and needed 13 for my garland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are 4 pages with 2 Halloween characters each plus 4 banner images.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Print these out on a good stiff card stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This video shows all the Halloween paper characters and poms strung together as one long garland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It only took 2 months cause I added a whole set of videos to help explain certain processes that I felt the step by step photos just didn't do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In about 2 more days everyone should have all the patterns depending on when you signed up. If there are any issues contact me, asap!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because of awesome customer service from MailerLite and a little poking around myself I was able to solve the problem. And while the whole thing wasn't exactly a success as far as my stress level was concerned, it exceeded my expectations, I had triple the number of people sign up then I expected, and I will do it again!</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Easy to follow step by step instructions with photos.<br /> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">A pattern template to print, pin to felt and cut the felt out.<br /> </span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Happy squishy tea bag plush! Adorable for home decor, perhaps a couch pillow of a tea loving friend or family member. Such happy kawaii faces!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Adorable felt pattern for making your own felt tea, coffee or hot chocolate. It could be a pin cushion or a desk decoration or a play food for your child's mini play kitchen. Look at that charming little lemon slice and dollop of whipped cream!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whimsical child's hand painted tea set. This delightful set would make for hours of imaginary play. I'm in love with the fun bright colors and that it can be personalized too. Every boy and girl should have a tea set. I actually learned table manners by playing with mine as a child. My brother served tea to his trucks, action figures and plush toys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a Hedgehog tea cosy!!!! Such a darling idea and great for keeping your tea pot hot. Great idea and cosies come in all shapes and sizes and characters. Makes me want to get a tea pot and a cosy just because it's so darn precious! The cuteness factor is about 100 here. Now I wish I drank tea!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Cute song lyric tea towels, I thought they were so funny! In the US we have dish towels which are absorbent printed towels. I'm sure the use is basically the same but tea towels are just more fun and seem to be more pieces of art. My Australian cousin sent me a tea towel for xmas and it's too beautiful to use, I'm going to frame it and hang it on the wall.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Wow a rubber ducky tea infuser! Such a darling little thing! My experience with tea infusers is that weird clampy spoon with holes in it or the metal acorn looking thing. Tea bags are huge here in the US so you don't see many tea infusers unless you are a connoisseur of fine teas or maybe a Hipster. This cutie floats around in your cup steeping your tea and looking like it's in a tub, so stinking cute!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well of course you are confused! This is all new to you so how would you even know? Crafts have to be taught the same as scuba diving needs to be taught. Crafting with felt is a skill just like many other types of skills.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Felt <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">doesn't</span> have to be your life too but I can give you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ips, tricks and ideas to help you jump in or wade slowly, whichever you prefer and enjoy felt crafting!</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How to properly iron felt - sort of already did this post </span></li>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">It's a Facebook felt lovers group for people of all levels sharing tips and cheering each other on. It's a great place to be to talk felt crafts with others. Everyone is welcome! <a href="https://promotions.privy.com/campaigns/87502" target="_blank"><b>Click here to sign up to join!</b></a></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span>sassypackrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468918445442314685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585468793758027390.post-86868106626223045972016-09-07T10:21:00.002-05:002016-09-07T10:21:41.911-05:00The Steps To Making A Miss Nettle Custom Order Doll Part 2<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now we are on PART 2 of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">making </span>the Miss Nettle Doll custom doll project. You can see <b><a href="http://sassypackrat.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-steps-to-making-miss-nettle-custom.html" target="_blank">PART 1 HERE.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her son loves the Disney show Sofia The First and his favorite character is Miss Nettle. Now since I do not have small children anymore and my grandson lives so far away I wasn't familiar with this show. Miss Nettle seems to be a misunderstood fairy, a lot like Maleficent but in a more happy Disney way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hopped on my computer and did some research on the character, and then I thought sure I can make this doll. Also during my research I saw that no one makes this doll, even Disney isn't making a soft doll version that I could find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I pulled some pics of the character from the internet and watched some video clips of the character singing and moving around to get a sense of who she was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish this show was around when my kids were small, they would have loved it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then my client and I went over the details of pricing and size of the doll. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I packrat felt like, well a packrat! So I do have a lot of felt but I'm slowly moving into using all wool blend felt which I only have a few colors of and none of the colors I needed for this project. So I made a list and ordered felt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My felt order came and I was happy with the dress and hat colors but not the hair color. So back to my computer to order more felt. I also got a swatch chart<i> ( which I know I have somewhere but can't find since I moved my studio into this room )</i>. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Tip: Always get a swatch chart! It can be a bit expensive but it's the best way to make sure you are getting the color you think you are.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now the hair color (bottom) and the cape color (middle) are right. I originally intended to use one color for the hair and cape but changed my mind since I had to order more felt anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While I was waiting on the felt to arrive I started the doll design.</span> Since this is a doll for a child and not an art doll, I approached the design steps very differently. Sturdiness, durability and recognizing the character were the 3 most important things. This being said, the final doll really ended up being a combination of child's doll and art doll.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">This character has a very specific hair style which I had to figure out how to do without making her too top heavy. A real person with that much hair wouldn't be able to stand upright with such a tiny neck! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I was originally going to do the hair like my fairy tale dolls (below), with the details stitched on very simply. And quite honestly that's how I quoted the price.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My shop link is: <a href="http://sassypackratstudios.com/">sassypackratstudios.com</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been feeling a bit better, a bit more like myself but not really up to all the work needed to finish the seahorse pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I started out as most beginning crafters do buying the 9" x 12" sheets of low grade craft felt from the craft store. It's cheap, comes in lots of bright colors and is easy to learn to work with. It's also 100% polyester and made from recycled water bottles, which means it's plastic and you can melt it with an iron, if you don't know what you are doing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the time you buy this felt flat and then store it flat so no ironing is necessary but sometime pieces get rolled under and creased when you are shoving too much felt into a drawer...trust me I know of what I speak on the stuffing and shoving of supplies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See wrinkled felt and that's no fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While eco felt is the trickiest to iron because of the plastic nature of the product, a little care and the right iron temperature is all you need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turn your iron to the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Poly setting with steam</b></span> and move quickly across the felt ironing on both sides of the crease or wrinkle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> For wrinkles in craft felt.</b> My iron doesn't show that you can use steam on this Poly setting but you can and I <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">do it all the time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the crease is very deep you'll have to get that dishtowel I told you about, place it over the felt and re-iron holding the iron in place longer. That dish towel will keep bad things from happening to the felt. Just don't leave it there for long periods of time or walk away or that felt and dish towel are goners<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unless an elephant has been sitting on this felt, the crease or wrinkle will come out su<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">per easy<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and fast. I only ironed the worst side of this piece since it's just going back into an over stuffed draw<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">er.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at that nice flat side. Ironed and ready to craft with!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Premium poly felt is slightly thicker than craft felt, is available in more colors, is stronger and more durable, is softer and you can buy it by the yard or sheets. It's also made out of recycled water bottles but is a higher quality product than craft felt. It's a personal favorite of mine because of the softness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because you can buy this felt by the yard and storing it flat is next to impossible, at least in my studio, you will have deep creases and wrinkles no matter what. They are still softer <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crease</span>s than you get with wool blend felt though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ce</span></span> heard a crafter say to arrange your patterns around the creases and then throw that creased part away?! <b>Girl Scout swear I read this on someone's blog once<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span></b> Apparently an iron was an unknown appliance to them. I'm a penny pincher, frugal or just plain cheap but I will use every speck of felt I possibly can so I iron my felt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again turn your iron to the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Poly setting with steam</b></span> and iron both sides with some pressure as if you were ironing cotton fabric, but keep that iron moving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> If the crease is deep and still visible and drives you nuts like it does me, you can bump up your iron to<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Blend setting still with steam</span></b> and iron the crease again on both side with pressure being careful not to hold the iron on too long. A couple of passes with the iron on the felt should get rid of the crease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> After ironing the Poly felt. So smooth and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ready</span> to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wool blend felt is pretty awesome and is so durable but not nearly as soft as the premium eco felt. It usually has a blend of rayon in it and is thicker than the premium felt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, which means it</span> cuts beautifully <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with nice sharp edges</span>. It also comes in sheets and yards and at some point you will need to iron it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm not sure if wool blend felt doesn't <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wrinkle</span> as<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> easy</span> as other felt or if I just store it flatter and with more care since it's so much more expensive than the other felt, but the creases are usually deeper tha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C</span>raft and Poly felt and I don't see any wrinkles. I find it the easiest of all the felt to iron<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the results are <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">amazing!</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turn that iron on to <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Blend setting with steam</b></span> if the crease is really light or <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Wool setting with steam</b></span> for a deeper crease and give those creases a good couple of passes on both sides with a little pressure<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span> I personally always use the Wool setting for my Wool Blend felt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span>It only takes a couple of seconds ( like 3 seconds ) <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>nd then you're done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In case you were wonder what that bl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ue thing I'm ironing on is</span>, it's a small table top ironing board. It's for do<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rm rooms and I got it 50<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">% off at Joann<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s last year. Love this thing!</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So now that you know the 4 easy tips about ironing felt, get out there and iron and create something awesome! </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Want to join other felt minded folks?</span> <a href="https://promotions.privy.com/campaigns/87502" target="_blank">Click her to sign up to my awesome Felt Facebook Group </a></span></b></span>sassypackrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468918445442314685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585468793758027390.post-49503741455494659482016-08-19T13:24:00.000-05:002016-08-19T13:24:02.918-05:00The Un-Fun Reason For My Blogging Absence<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've been having some health issues that have kept me from being my normal productive self.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was back in the hospital in mid July with more heart issues and this time they sent me home with a 30 day heart monitor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I named him George, cause I figured he and I were on such intimate terms 24/7. It's not super fun having electrodes attached to your chest for 30 days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also had to take pills to raise my potassium because they thought my low levels might be the cause of some of my symptoms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also was given another medication that I had an extreme and scary adverse reaction to, that caused all kinds of problems and even after stopping that medication I still am not feeling quite myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of this has made me sluggish and slow and not feeling creative at all. I did take a custom order hoping it would kick start my creative juices again. The custom design is going well, if slowly but I'm not anywhere back to where i was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That being said, I'm still here and trying to come up with some fun projects for you as soon as I feel a little more lighthearted. Thanks for sticking with me and I'll have more fun things to post soon!</span>sassypackrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468918445442314685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585468793758027390.post-72100599783705262242016-07-30T11:55:00.000-05:002016-07-30T11:55:14.894-05:00Christmas In July Sale!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The month of July kind of got away from me, so I threw together a quick Christmas In July Sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well. I'm planning on re-organizing my studio soon and I need room! I have so much packed in bins that I feel like I'm working in a closet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of my physical products are being sold. Any thing that can ship in a box is for sale. My digital patterns are not on this sale, but feel free to buy one if you like too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everything is made from my own patterns and all hand sewn except the mermaids which are machine sewn with hand embroidered details. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Raggedy Ann and Andy Felt Dolls.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Felt and Fabric Mermaid Dolls.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day of The Dead Couple Soft Sculpture. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plus a few more items. Since I turned my business into a pattern business I haven't had time to make these one of a kind pieces anymore. I really slashed the prices hoping they will find good homes. So if you've had your eye on something, now's the time to grab it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where Is My Website?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's at www.sassypackratstudios.com and <a href="http://bit.ly/2ac0c8T" target="_blank">here's a link</a> to take you right there! There is also FREE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you at least pop over and look. Thanks! </span></div>
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