Tiny Felt Cuties & Creatures: A step-by-step guide to handcrafting more than 12 felt miniatures--no machine required

by Delilah Iris

Overview

Craft adorable, trendy felt miniatures with this book of step-by-step tutorials and projects, featuring beautiful photos that illustrate easy felting techniques.

From self-taught artist Delilah Iris, Sew Cute!: Tiny Felt Cuties & Creatures includes more than a dozen patterns for making tiny animals, dolls, dollhouses, props, adorable gifts, and miniature play sets. The projects can be created as stand-alone finished works, but they can also be used to complement each other in a complete set for use in a tiny miniature world!

If you have been looking for new crafting techniques to learn at home and don’t want to buy a lot of tools and materials, creating felt miniatures is the perfect choice. Felting does not require a sewing machine and can be done using simple hand stitches and embroidery, all of which are demonstrated in the book along with stylized photo tutorials. Also included are detailed doll patterns, suggestions for materials to have on hand, and much more.

Sew Cute!: Tiny Felt Cuties & Creatures will help you create your own tiny world of animals, dolls, fairy houses, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760380529
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	03/14/2023
Series:	Sew Cute! Series , #2
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	733,007
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Delilah Iris is a self-taught felt and fiber artist with an extensive background in graphic design and print, media, and content creation. Her works include a line
of felt sewing patterns and DIY craft kits found in craft stores across the United States and Canada. She is a constant creative dabbling in mixed-media art and even ceramic pottery from her studio in Maine. Follow Delilah’s work and find more craft project tutorials on Instagram @delilahiris and her website, Delilahiris.com.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Tools & Materials
CHAPTER 2: Basics of Hand Sewing
CHAPTER 3: Teeny-Tiny Critters & Their Accessories 
Fox
Cat
Dog
Doghouse
Pet Bed
Skunk
Frog
Mushroom
Mushroom Frog
CHAPTER 4: Tiny Dolls & Dollhouses
Doll
Teddy Bear 
Mushroom Dollhouse 
Tree Stump House 
CHAPTER 5: Patterns 
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

02/06/2023

Fiber artist Iris proves that good things come in small packages with her winning debut, a guide to making pint-sized felt animals. She begins with a primer on hand sewing, providing tips for threading a needle and illustrating how to sew basting, blanket, and running stitches. The adorable projects include a cat, dog, fox, frog, skunk, and dolls, all tiny enough to fit in one’s palm. The process for each involves cutting out felt shapes following the patterns provided, sewing them together, stuffing them, and adding eyes, noses, ears, and other details. Iris offers helpful tricks of the trade and recommends taping paper pattern pieces to felt for greater precision when cutting, as well as filling the animals’ narrow legs by balling stuffing into small pieces and pushing them into place with a toothpick. Other projects are for such accessories as a doghouse, pet bed, and a mushroom dollhouse inspired by the author’s “childhood dreams of living in the forest like a tiny gnome.” Encouraging words (“You’ll surprise yourself with what you can make”) and easy-to-follow instructions will have even reluctant crafters game for creating their own felt menagerie. The cute designs are hard to resist. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Delilah Iris proves that good things come in small packages with her winning debut…The cute designs are hard to resist.”—Publishers Weekly

"A master class in the machine free art of crafting animals, dolls, fairy houses, and so much more."—Midwest Book Review

"Full of adorable projects that are perfect for gifts."—Library Journal

From the Publisher

04/01/2023

This guide to felt sewing offers instructions on creating miniature toys, gifts, and keepsakes that can be stand-alones, a set, or a tiny world of items. Self-taught fiber artist Iris gives detailed steps and high-definition pictures for each critter, house, and doll. While it's written for beginners, readers may find that even a little textile crafting knowledge of basic embroidery and introductory sewing stitches will help, as not all basic sewing/embroidery steps are as detailed as the patterns that appear later in the book. Specific types of felt, pipe cleaners, and snaps are not listed in the tools and materials section either, so a quick read through the book before starting is essential for organized crafting. All the materials, however, are relatively easy and affordable for most readers to purchase, even with inflation concerns. After the first project, the repetition of ideas and jargon for each pattern helps readers grasp the foundational steps. VERDICT This book is full of adorable projects that are perfect for gifts. This title complements introductory sewing and embroidery how-to books well.—Elizabeth Chandler

Library Journal