A week ago I was in Accessorize with my friend Alma, discussing things that I could felt and sell. We were coming up with all sort of silly things, as usual, but we kept spotting all these cute fruity pieces in the shop and were getting waaaaay too excited about it! Espescially the little bracelets and earrings! Then Alma suggested that maybe I could try and felt some little charms and with fruit being in for SS11 I thought it was a good plan!
Alma makes fab little pin cushions and made me an uber cute water melon one with an ice cream patterned wrist strap and a teddy bear shaped button. I love it and suddenly love water melon things!! So this was my main inspiration for my first fruity felt! 
I drew a few ideas in my trusty little sketchbook and searched through my wool for some colours. I was thinking I could make some large versions and turn them into keyrings. I think they'd look good! The charms are small so I'll have to use my little hand needle for them which is fine. But I'll try do some larger ones on my machine! I haven't used my it for a little while. Which is really bad! It's just that we're in the process of trying to reorganise our room and theres so much stuff piled up on the chair and the floor in front of it that it's kinda difficult for me to get too :( But I'm determined to get the rubbish sorted out this week so I can sit and have a massive go on it fairly soon!So, anyway, here is my first tiny little fruity felt I've made! It took just under an hour to do using my single hand needle. It could do with a little bit of neatening up but here it is... I quite like it :) I need to start using my proper camera more! I took this photo on my phone and it's quite a grainy image and made the melon look a bit rough, but it gives you the idea :)
I just need to add a couple of jump rings. What do you think? I think I'm going to try make a slice of orange next!! I'm hoping to end up with a whole felted fruit salad!
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