Finn’s felted stocking

Finn’s felted stocking
Originally uploaded by fiona-kelly

Eek! Slightly more of a colour run when it felted than I expected. The red isn’t so Christmassy and the cream… well it’s now more of a definite pink… even the snowman is the same shade (i’m not even going to bother photographing that). On the plus side the fringing [...]

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Finn’s stocking ready to felt

The fringing is finished so it’s now in the washing machine. Keep your fingers crossed the red doesn’t leak too much and turn the cream pink!

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Finn’s snowman

This is the snowman so far for finn’s stocking. It’s also in the machine and I’ll add the rest of his details when I sew him into place.

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fringing close up

just 5 more rounds to go

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Finn’s stocking almost finished!

just a bit more to do. I re-did the toe section and I’m now doing some fringing around the top. a little snowman decoration next before felting..

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Finns Christmas Stocking progress…

I’m making fast progress with Finns Christmas Stocking now… Just a bit more to do height wise, then the fringed top and I think the toe section is a bit short so I need to re-do that part. I just have to untangle my ball of cream merino DK that Finn got hold of before [...]

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The 4 squares together

The 4 squares together
Originally uploaded by fiona-kelly
I managed to rattle off a couple more squares in addition to finishing the songbird one. I’ll write up the patterns longhand tonight as they’re going off in the post tomorrow.
As soon as I can I’ll pop patterns for all 4 in the free patterns page so you can [...]

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