Felt Fish:

Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

 Yesterday, I made fish.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

I improved my system as I went along.  This was the first one.  I sewed around the edges on the machine and then stuffed it and hand embroidered the edges.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

Then I remembered the whole bunch of eyes that I had bought at Bunny's garage sale last year.  So, I put in the eyes and machine sewed and then hand embroidered.  I used variegated thread for these two fish.  I do not find them very professional looking, so these three will not be for sale.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

THEN, I decided to skip the machine sewing and just hand embroidered the edges before stuffing the fish.  Plus, I changed to solid colors of thread instead of variegated.  The rest of my fish turned out so much nicer.  I am in the process of giving each fish a tail bracelet like the purple one has.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

Aren't they cute?

Hope that you have a wonderful week!


Kathy M.

At Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy, if you miss a day, you miss a lot!  All material on this post is copyrighted and not for use without my permission ...Please click here to go to my home page and see what is happening in Mayberry today.