{"id":5238,"date":"2014-10-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2014-10-09T20:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:00:51","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-felt-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Felt Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the next project on my board said “felt ornaments,” I decided to go in a slightly different direction.<\/p>\n

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I have had a kitty from Sew Many Cats<\/a> on my studio wall for several years. I thought it would be fun to try feltcraft and make a Halloween kitty.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t want something huge, so I drew my kitty shape on a single sheet of paper. I decided to attach the tail at two points for extra stability.<\/p>\n

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Kitty got traced on to some high-quality black felt, and cut out twice.<\/p>\n

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Went through a pile of possibilities, deciding on off-white, red, and purple for accents.<\/p>\n

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Felt accents get planned, cut, and placed on Kitty to see how they fit. Looking good, on to the fun stuff (well, even MORE fun).<\/p>\n

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Paint! I wanted the accents mostly pre-painted. I went a little wild, doodling with acrylics. Some colors had to be gone over several times to get enough vibrancy.<\/p>\n

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Eye and belly parts, ready to be layered on.<\/p>\n

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Painted accents are attached with fabric glue. That’s right, didn’t sew ’em. I’m a very slow tailor, and it would have taken me two weeks. I like glue. Glue is my friend.<\/p>\n

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Kitty’s design was looking a little heavy on one side, so I gave her a pet spider to even things out.<\/p>\n

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More paint! The spider isn’t actually attached yet, but this is how she will look after she’s all sewn up.<\/p>\n

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To avoid tears, I did a lot of stuffing as I went along. I sewed the end of the tail, and got that stuffed first. Did I mention I’m terrible at sewing? I knew what stitch I wanted, but couldn’t remember how to do it, or even what it was called. I finally had to look it up–it’s a blanket stitch.<\/p>\n

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Here I’m making sure the ears get stuffed. I also tried to get extra stuffing in the delicate parts, like the tail and neck, so they wouldn’t flop around.<\/p>\n

Here’s the finished Kitty. I think she’s faaaabulous.\u00a0 This was the most fun project so far.<\/p>\n

What I learned: Don’t let the sewing intimidate you.<\/p>\n

Raffle<\/a> status: Yup! Kitty will be getting a new home.<\/p>\n

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When the next project on my board said “felt ornaments,” I decided to go in a slightly different direction. I have had a kitty from Sew Many Cats on my studio wall for several years. I thought it would be fun to try feltcraft and make a Halloween kitty. I didn’t want something huge, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}