Child's Felted Crochet Purse

This is such an easy project - and lots of fun! I just got some thick wool (100% wool or it won't felt) yarn and crocheted a rectangle. Then I folded it and sewed the sides together (with the wool yarn). I just crocheted a single chain for the strap. When it's all together wash in warm water and let dry! If it doesn't shrink as much as you'd like you can wash again and toss it in the dryer for 5 min to help it shrink up. The purse was adult size before felting and ended up the PERFECT size for my 2 year old after felting.

I chose not to line this purse, I like how it looks as is.

Kate's Purse

This is the purse I made for my sister. It's my second attempt at felting. I taught myself how to knit because I liked the felting so much! The lining turned out better than I thought it would. I had to knit the purse, then felt it (wash it in warm water - I did it in the washing machine). Once it shrank down I did a little measuring and eyeballing to get the lining to fit. I sewed the lining up on my machine and hand sewed it into the purse. I'm going to try to take some pictures of my daughters purse - it was the first attempt at felting! I just taught myself to cable knit, so stay tuned because that makes felting SO much more fun!

Auntie Kate's Quilt for Bub

Here is the quilt my sister made for Bubba. It's beautiful...she quilted circles all over it. It's much better than anything I have ever done and I am so happy it's Bub's.

Baby Gift

I made these as a gift for my sister in law and (soon to be) nephew. This is a link to the tutorial for the shoes. I used one of my son's old jackets for the material. I used the hood of the jacket to make the heel of the shoe. This is a link for my lame explanation of the burp cloths. I made her a set of 6- 2 each of 3 different colors.
She's due in less than a month and we're excited to meet him!

Tissue Holders

I made these for Christmas presents too. We have a gift exchange with my husbands family every year so I put a gift card in with the tissues and put it in a little brown paper bag. I thought it was cute.

Name Pillow for Baby Reid

Here is the name pillow I did for baby Reid. The disappearing ink hasn't disappeared yet ;-) in this photo. I looked at several pictures of trains and drew this design onto the pillow.

Embroidered Name Pillow

I've been working on this pillow for a little girl named Lily. She turned one in Nov, and I just finished it for her.


It's all different courderoy. I thought it turned out pretty cute!



The verse is Mark 9:23 - " 'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes."


Happy Birthday Lily!

Hand/Footprint Angel Bags

Everything I've been working on lately is for Christmas. Since I haven't been able to post any of that stuff yet I brought home a project from school so I could finish it and show it off on here.



Their names are on the bottom left corner.

Cute baby shoes!

Check out these baby shoes! They are SO cute! This is a link to the tutorial. I might have to try these out.

Katie's Towel Bibs

These are the bibs my friend Katie was telling me about. Her grandma makes them - she uses old t-shirt or sweatshirt necks and sews them in. Then you can skip the velcro altogether. I like that better since the velcro tends to stick onto things it shouldn't in the wash. Thanks Katie!

Hand Towel Bibs

Check out these bibs...I'm going to make some for my son!

Click here for directions on how to make this bib!

Burp Cloths

Here is what I'm making for some of the new babies in our Sunday School class.

I just bought a higher end washcloth and wrapped the edges with yarn like this -

Then crocheted one row all the way around - I don't know the correct terms for crocheting, I am self-taught, but on the corners crochet one and then do one extra loop before crocheting the next so it lays flat. They are easy and really cute and they are also really absorbent for the big spitters out there!

Paper Fun

My mom introduced me to A Little Hut and I will be drawing inspiration from her during this holiday season. I've recently been on a paper craft kick so I was really excited to see some really awesome stuff by a great designer!
These are some things I thought would be fun to make for my daughter.
Paper fliers -

wallets -

And some boxes (which she LOVES to play with - I made several in different sizes so they can stack and nest) -