My all time favorite Tea Time cakes with zero calories!!

Go best with coffee or hot chocolate. =)

Orange Chiffon Cake, Chocolate Swirl Pound Cake, Strawberry Swiss Roll, Cheesecake Stick, Cheesecake and Chocolate & Butter Madeleines.

Original patterns & Tutorials now available at my etsy shop Umecrafts.

Felt fabrics used to make these cakes are from Lit’l Brown Bird’s Etsy shop.

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Had previously made a DS Lite Cover for my girls and had been requested to come out with the patterns.  So here you are! You can make and customize your own DS Lite case in your favorite color and personalize it with beads & buttons etc..

Original Patterns are available at my etsy shop Umecrafts.

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Felt Favorite Cafe Drinks

Felt Cafe drinks

Felt Cafe Cakes

Comes with the actual paper patterns cut-out as well detailed colored step-by-step instructions / directions.

For the Felt Cafe Set and other Felt Food’s patterns, please visit my etsy shop.

or Click here to go to my FREE patterns page.

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Make you own Felt Chinese Take-out Box and fill it with your favorite food!

Comes with the actual paper patterns cut-out as well detailed colored step-by-step instructions / directions.

Skill Level = Beginner

Click here to go to my FREE tutorial page.

For the Felt Dim Sum and other Felt Food’s patterns, please visit my etsy shop.

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Here’s the chance for you to share your work with other mommies / felters as well as win great prizes!

Simply upload photos of your felt items made from any Umecrafts Patterns to “Felt Patterns & Tutorials” Facebook Fan Page with a short description or comment on your item, and you stand a chance to win these amazing and original “Lego Frames” from Japan!

This unique frames comes in 3 sizes (S, M and L) and allows you to frame up not just your favorite photos BUT also 3D objects such as your baby’s first toys or keepsakes, your favorite collections, souvenirs, watches and rings etc… (for more details and uses on the frame please visit LBB’s journal).

Winner of this contest will receive TWO Lego Frames (1 Large + 1 Medium) worth USD59. Large frame measures 24cm and Medium frame measures 18cm.

Contest ends 25 Mar ‘09 and winner will be announced and notified on 31 Mar ‘09.

Hurry!! Start taking photos & upload them now! The more you upload the higher your chance of winning.

Please feel free to email me if you have any queries on the contest to jeanette.lin@gmail.com

Note: All photos uploaded remains the owners property and permission will be seeked from the rightful owners if we intend to use it for any media or marketing purposes.

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9 Assorted Felt Animal Cookies / Biscuits

Felt Animal Cookies in Cookie Jar

Comes with the actual paper patterns cut-out as well detailed colored step-by-step instructions / directions.

Skill Level = Beginner

Click here to go to my tutorial page.

Please visit my etsy shop for more felt foods patterns & tutorials.

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Since my post “Material List - Need or Need Not?” I’ve received quite a number of emails and comments and I have summarize them as follows:

For most beginners who just started felting, would prefer to have a material list so that they can know what are the materials required for the projects exactly.

For intermediate felters and most who have been working with felt for some time responded that a material list is not necessary they are able to figure out the amount of felt fabrics they require as well as the colors for the projects as most of the time they are not table o get the exact colors stated in the list as it varies according to the types of felt used.

For advance felters, they do not refer to the material list as they find the list quite vague and they usually base on their own judgment from the picture of the final projects and choose their own colors co-ordination from their existing felt fabrics that they have stock up from their previous felt projects. just like they do with the Japanese crafts books with no English translation.

Base on the feedback, I’ve decided to include an extra page of instruction which contains a picture of the final item as well as a material list for all my future patterns. I will also backtrack and create a material list or all my past projects, for the benefits of the novice sewer to aid them in their materials purchase .

Thank you all for supporting Umecrafts and for your valuable feedback which help me progress and strive to create and offer better patterns, so please keep those comments coming.

Here’s a quick glance at the materials used for felt projects:
- Felt fabrics (All projects)
- Threads (All projects)
- Fiber fill / Poly fill (Most projects)
- Cardboard (Some projects)

Other necessary materials includes scissors, sewing needles and (sometimes) pins.

Will cover more on the materials in my “Tips & Tutorials” Page. Please do remember to bookmark “Lit’l Brown Bird“

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I am pleased to introduce my latest creation - Felt Grocery Set!

For more details on this set or to see more of UmeCrafts felt projects, please visit Lit’l Brown Bird’s Gallery or go to my etsy shop at UmeCrafts to order the patterns & tutorials for making your own set now!

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Here it is! FREE Patterns & Tutorials for making your very own hand weaved Felt Picnic Basket as promised!

Includes the actual patterns cut-out as well detailed colored step-by-step instructions / directions. This time I’ve also included the materials list as requested.

Note: There isn’t a lot of sewing for this project but involve more cutting & weaving. So be patient & have fun!!

Skill Level = Beginner/Intermediate

Click here to go to my tutorial page.

Please visit my etsy shop for more felt foods patterns & tutorials.

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Should my patterns and instructions come with a Material List?

I’ve always suggest my customers to refer to the first step of every instruction for guide on the fabrics required for the projects.

Sometimes you might need a lot of brown but only a small piece of red fabric which you still have remain from your previous projects. If I were to put Brown felt x 3, Red felt x 1, customers might buy a whole piece of the red fabric only to realize that they only need a tiny bit which they have left overs from their previous projects.

Also the sizes of felt each individual uses are different, as for me, I use a 23″ x 23″ felt and some use A4 and others B5 size.

I’d welcome your comments and suggestions. If you have one, please feel free to email me at litlbrownbird@gmail.com.

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