These blocks are so beautiful! My friend shared your post with me last spring, and it inspired me to make a set for a coworker. But I don't have a knitting machine, so I felted sweaters from the thrift store. It was hard to find pretty colors (so many are drab grays and browns!) but in the end they turned out okay. Here is a link to crafster where there are some pix. http://www.craftster.org/forum/i...p?
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Thank you so much for the idea!
they are great.
any chance on a step by step picture rundown on the sewing part? i am rubbish at that!
you could always use the felt bits for stuffing the cubes with, no? cut up and used for stuffing?
waste not want not...;)
These are fantastic, but I gotta second the othres tht buying wool sweaters at teh thrift and fulling them in the washer is how I go about it. I make quilts ala crispina....check out their site at www.crispina.com. I, too, detest waste and i have been saving all my long thin trimmings to make potholder rugs. As well as cotton and acrylic sweaters to make braided rugs. I wish I had a studio to store all my stuff...I keep it in my bathtub now! Lucky I have a shower down the hall. YOur friend's baby is one lucky girl! Cheers, Claire
Those are absolutely amazing! Makes me want a knitting machine. I love the colours you used. They are just perfect!!!
Gorgeous!
I love to challenge my skills like that. It's fun. Up at night thinking how to work it out. The sweat and frustration when it's not working out easily. Ah... then the satisfaction. Take a step back and think "Wow! I made that." Sometimes I love the process more than the finished work.
They're beautiful. Be proud.
Candy
Love the blocks. Thanks for the tip about blocking (!!) before fulling. I love the sincraaft and scrag-fight (almost as much as the blocks!), though the local scragfight could better be called scroatfight...
how did i miss out this fabulous post about blocks! you did such a wonderful job. i am just now starting to sew. i suspect i may like it a lot.
Well, all that time and work paid off, they look fab!
I'm going to make a quilt like that... nice inspiration. Thanks
Really Amazing...well done. I hope you printing out all these steps to include in the present.....just so they know!!!
Wow, I LOVE those blocks. What a lucky little baby. I think the color combinations are perfect! i love that they aren't in your typical baby pastels or baby primary colors. Great, great work!!
These are fantastic! I want to drop everything and crank felt for baby blocks! Great tip about steam pressing the swatches before fulling--who'd have thought that would make such a difference?
You could also do them with thrifted sweaters instead of a Bond Machine, but then you couldn't be such an Art Director with the colors, now, could you? And that is the magic of them, the colors. Well done! Yahoo! xox Kay
These are realy great! I'll be trying this idea out. I've done felt balls before, but never blocks. I must confess to shortcutting by buying up op-shop wool jumpers and blankets for this purpose. The next project will be dying to order! But for now I enjoy the challenge of making good colour combos from what I can find.
i love this
what a fabulous project
and those colours - so wonderful
Di they're gorgeous! If I had access to a knitting machine I'd be tempted (my sister's having her first child soon). Bravo!
i absolutely love them! the colours combos are gorgeous. it does feel good, doesn't it, when so much work yields such great results?!
These are SOOOOOOO coooooll, SERIOUSLY well worth the effort and GORGEOUS colours*
Blessings
Kitty
so worth all the hard work di, the blocks are just beautiful, well done...
They are beautiful! I've never knitted, then felted and then cut and sewed up the swatches before, I"m going to have to try it out.
What a simply fantastic baby gift idea! And they're fabulous. (I think I want some -- for me!) :)
They're gorgeous! I hadn't thought to use the knitting maching to make felt like that - really good idea. Sorry it was so much work.
I stand in awe of your colour combos, Diana.
Mr Bond looks as if he's been loaned out for a really good reason :)
Now, how about your box bags made in felted/fulled fabrics?
I dare ya!!
Can't wait till the next baby is born to someone i know... blocks will be the go! Really, they are wonderful and the recipient is one lucky bub.
hmmm - i love ya blog too...but i meant to type i love ya blocks.
i think i need to find a glass of wine for myself.
i love ya blog girl!!
they are absolutely sensational!
This whole post has filled me with amazement! I absolutely LOVE these blocks! What a great result you've produced for all your work! Really really lovely!
It does look like a lot of work but the result is fantastic! I love the colours. Especially the green. Thanks for taking so many pics and explaining the process so well. :) Jen
gorgeous. the blocks look great, and the colours are fabulous. i would say that they were well worth the effort that went into making them. and im sure that they will definately be enjoyed- hey i wouldnt mind some of them for myself! x
Those look so good! I really like the colours you chose.
As for the leftovers - I hate getting waste as well, but then maybe you could find a clever way to use them for accessories, corsages?
Or try to make an abstract iron-on patchwork mat..?
Those are adorable! What a great alternative to a baby sweater or blanket!
For all the trouble you described, they are absolutely gorgeous. The colors are brilliant!
These are wonderful! I'm really crabby that I let my mum get rid of her knitting machine now... love the colours
They're spectacular! I mean it. Your work shows.
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