Sue's Starfish & Seashell Brooches
and the add-on for Nana Kath’s Beach Hut
It’s summertime at The Crafty Kit Company and that means trips to the seaside. We have taken two of our favourite seaside creatures; the Starfish and the Queen Scallop Shell and created brooches to fasten to your beach hat or add on to Nana Kath’s Beach Hut hoop. Both of these can be found in May's project. How will you use them?!
Click here to download The Sues’ Starfish and Seashell template!
Sue's Starfish & Seashell Brooches
Supply List
These supplies are available from The Crafty Kit Company. Click on the red text to take you to the specific product pages!
- Felting Wool (Note: You can order all five colours with the Felting Wool "Pick 'n Mix")
- Salmon
- Candyfloss
- Fawn
- Chestnut Chap
- Peach Melba
- Felt Fabric: Marl Fawn
- Felting needle
- Clover Green Felting Tool
- Medium Pink Eco-Friendly Felting Mat
- Brooch backs
Other Supplies
- Fine-Tip Marker
- Scissors
- DMC Embroidery Floss: 776, 422
- Embroidery needle
- Seed beads; brown iridescent
- Beading needle
- Freezer Paper (plastic coated) *
Cut out Starfish and Seashell patterns. See the Designer Notes (at the bottom of the project) on how to use freezer paper*.
Trace two of each. You can also trace the pattern directly to the felt fabric with a marker.
Starfish Brooch
- Cover felt fabric starfish with fawn wool, using felting tool, felt the starfish
- Turn over and felt the wool over the edge of the felt fabric starfish
- Turn starfish back over
- Using wisps of salmon felt on starfish as shown
- Felt wisps of chestnut pup over the salmon
- Felt wisps of fawn over top
- Roll small sausages of chestnut chap, felt over top as shown
- Thread the beading needle and stitch beads on the starfish
- On the extra starfish, mark where the brooch back will be place, snip a small slit into the felt fabric
- Slip brooch back in the slits, stitch in place
Queen Scallop Shell
- Cover felt fabric shell with fawn wool, using felting tool, felt the shell
- Felt salmon wool over top
- Turn over and felt the wool over the edge of felt fabric shell
- Blend the candy floss and chestnut chap together
- Roll a small sausages of mixture, felt over top as shown, starting with a “V”
- Continue with the sausages adding the detail of the queen scallop shell
- To create the shell’s ridges, felt candy floss sausages from the centre of the “V” to the top of the shell.
- With embroidery floss, stitch a stem stitch along the edges of the felted shell ridges
- See the starfish instructions to add the brooch back
- Do a Blanket Stitch around edges to complete your Queen Scallop Shell!
Please post your brooches on The Craft Kit Company’s Facebook page: Craft Your Way To Happiness
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Happy Crafting,
Ana
*Designer's Notes:
If you haven’t discovered Reynolds Freezer Paper (plastic coated) this tip is going to make cutting shapes from felt so easy! Simply trace your pattern on the paper side of the freezer paper, then iron onto the felt fabric, cut out, peel off freezer paper from felt! No maker lines on your felt and a nice clean cut. Save your freezer paper patterns because you can use the again.
I find they are good for 2 to 3 more uses.
Sue's Starfish & Seashells
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