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via RSSThings have been pretty crazy around me for the last couple weeks, we’re staying with my parents-in-law, and have been working hard to get through my sister-in-law’s wedding. The last guests left the house this morning, so now I have a little time to leave super slow dial-up-land and get down to the local library for some much needed high bandwidth time. 🙂
I’ve been super busy, but weekend before last we had a 3+ hour drive to go to my husband’s cousin’s wedding (yes, and two weekends from now we’re going to my brother’s wedding, crazy crazy) so I had some time in the car to do some sewing. My daughter got a really fabulous Plan dollhouse from a friend for her belated two year birthday a couple weeks ago, so I got a good shot of inspiration to revive my doll house furniture crafting love. This time with a little help from a Japanese crafting magazine/book I picked up last time we were in Tokyo. Here’s the sweet felt kitchen I want to make from it:
So here is how far I have gotten:
I haven’t counted how many pieces are in the kitchen set, because I would get too discouraged. I doubt I will make them all, but I will at least make the sink module. It took me three hours just to make the little box with handles though, because I wanted to add lots of extra stitching to make the corners, inside and out, square. But life isn’t about being fast, right? And patterns are just inspiration, when you make something it’s always nice to make it a little different to make it your own. Which is much easier when the instructions are in Japanese, so you have to make up half of it anyway! So I just use the basic pattern pieces, and add my own embroidery style.
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Add Yours →Love your post – you have a great skill at crafts. The furniture looks so cute.
omg how tiny! how great!
Hi, my mum recently bought that felt book, darn shame that it is in Japanese (which doesn’t worry me after I think about how good the patterns are)! I am starting prgress on the doll, (one arm and two ears down) so that I can design a shower and/or bathroom aswell. I hope that you do well and to comment on your progress, well done! I think that this will finish well. Once I looked at the page with the kitchen I went, ” Where to start?” I am very fond with miniature things, bits and pieces. I love them and they are so adorable. I would like to make a modern kitchen, miniature of course, to perhaps sell on Etsy! I hope that I end up sewing it well enough to put up there! Anyway give me more progress, I would love to see how you are going! See your progress later!
hello!!!
i love this…site~!!
you are awesome, i’m only a teenager, but i really want to try to make something that looks….good. i keep failing!!
but i was wondering, what kind of thread do you use? thank you 😀
Uri, it doesn’t matter how old you are, just how much you have practiced. For the little kitchen pieces I was using a single strand of embroidery floss, probably a generic, not DMC, because my aunt gave me an enormous bag when I was in high school I still haven’t gotten through, and I was using 100% wool felt. Tiny work like that is very slow to make neat, because you have to get the needle in *just* the right place since it is so small. It is much simpler to make larger projects look neat. What part are you having trouble with?