4yo birthday present 2nd part

I did not make it to continue my craft as planned on Wednesday. Anyway, last night after my late dinner, I manage to cut out my template and trace them on respective color felt. I think they took me less than 10 minutes to cut out from paper template, another 10 minutes to trace and extra 10 minutes to cut out from felt.

So this is how Barney puppet looks like when all the felt were placed accordingly. Haha, sorry for my ugly hat drawing..

So for the following days, I will start sewing all the felt together and the puppet will be ready as present~

Maybe you had missed my first planning on this puppet, feel free to read on my 4 year old birthday present.

4 year old birthday present

In 10 days time will be little worm's 4 year old birthday.

For the past 2 weeks, I was struggling what to give her as birthday present. Last year, I made her a felt birthday cake. Glad to see the cake slices and fruit deco were on the toy plates from time to time ^^

This year I had planned something else. Since she loves to watch Barney show, most probably I will make her a Barney hand puppet to play with her brother and sister. :D

How to make a  Barney puppet? Well, to me sounded simple:

Update: Costum Made Order (Sheep purse)

Delivered the phone and camera cases two days ago and now preparing for my next project, 2 purse for kids.

Need to do some graphic search for the purse design.. google-ing for nice and cute sheep and snake which kids like most... homework for the day :)

Here are some snip shots for the sheep I found in google image.

Apologies

Sorry guys, I was not able to come up with the sales kits as me and all my 3 kids have fall sick after my previous post. Everyday busy comforting them (they are more fussy than normal days) especially the new born, she is the worst. She has a bad nose block that always makes her feel uncomfortable. I had the same problem too! Both of us have been sick for more than 2 weeks now, and sad to say there still no sign that getting better each day. Most probably this is caused by lack of rest and always stay late to baby sit the new born who can't sleep well at night. Really wish both of us have speeding recovery...

Anyway, manage to make few pages of quiet book during these 2 weeks. Here show you some of the cutting.
I will turn them into tutorial and if anyone interested, please drop me a message here.

Updates: Back to service!

One month confinement is going to end in few more days! Now I am warming up my engine and shall resume my service immediately once after my daughter's full moon celebration.

During confinement I had received a lot of request but sadly I can't close their orders as they need the order soon. Maybe Christmas is approaching and everyone might busy making Christmas present for their love ones, therefore their cant for me to resume by end of November. Luckily they are quite understanding and hope to keep in touch with them again in future.

So now I am ready to announce that I AM BACK!!! ^^

Will have a Christmas sales for this coming 10 days! See my next post for details ya!

Updates: new era for my felt craft career

This is great news to me and I hope you can share my happiness as well! After a year managing my 2 blogs (pattecraft and handcrafttutorial), I am moving forward for my felt online business using e-commerce! Haha, going pro from this point onwards! Feel exciting that I am a REAL BOSS now... haha...

Starting one business is not easy, anyway I have a very supportive husband that willing to "train" me. :) He has been running his own business for more than 10 years, therefore he should be a perfect FOC mentor to me right? Hehe...

Well, I will keep on sharing my website development here. If you wish to share your experiences, you are welcome to leave your comments.

Let's begin with buying a name for my website.

First, I list out some preferred names and I check the availability here. Since Pattecraft is still available, therefore I register this domain name via Dpeers Technology (hosting provider).


Secondly, look for an e-commerce website that suits my requirements.

There are few ways to do so. Either you get someone to develop your website from scratch, or you can get a readymade template from OSStudio. Readymade template might save you lots of time but it might not suit to your need. Custom made template will fit to your feet but you need to pay more, so work within your budget! For me, I choose an easy way, I bought myself a template. Overall, I had spent about 800 Ringgit as a start.

Next, products planning. I will share some of my experiences later! Catch up with you!

Mini Santa Hat from Prototype to Samples

It was a challenge to me at first when Cass told me that she was looking for 1cm or 2cm width Santa hat. I had tried several ways to get it right and I had even browse through many websites looking for good tutorials.

Well, after several hours surfing online I only realized it was not easy to get a suitable tutorial that suits our need. Therefore, at the end I decided to draw my own template to get the right size.

You can see my progress and improvement from Santa hat No.1 to Santa hat No.6. Finally get I manage to get the right measurement and now looks more reality than my earlier prototype, don't you agree with me? hehe...

Anyone who interested with my mini Santa hat? Feel free to drop me a message.