Hello, everyone! It’s time to share our January critters – have you made yours? If you’ve been following along, Dawn and I have decided to introduce two new felt critters every month for 2014. If you felt along with us, you’ll end up with 24 Christmas Ornaments by the end of the year. Maybe you could have a little tree where you display all your ornaments. Or maybe they would be fun for a young child to collect. However you want to use them is just fine.
At the beginning of the month, we introduced two ornaments, the owl and the bear and those are the ornaments we will be sharing in this week’s Link Up. If you are just joining in, the patterns are available for download below:
Click here to download Woodland Bear Ornament Pattern
Click here to download Woodland Felt Owl Pattern
Now, it’s time for our new patterns for February!
February’s ornaments are the Cardinal and the Sheep.
Click here to download the Sheep Felt Pattern
Make sure you open the zip file by clicking on it – then you will see the pattern!
To download the Cardinal Pattern, visit Dawn’s post by clicking here.
We’re so excited to see your creations!
This party will remain open for five days, so even those of you who have yet to make your January ornaments will have time to create them and link up.
Thanks so much for joining in!
Edited to add: If you don’t have a blog and you want to link up, you can link your photo through your Facebook page. Dawn has written a great tutorial and has included it in her post here.
Poppi Linn says
How cute! I’m going to try the February ornaments.
-Lynn
Claudia says
Good! I’m glad you’re joining in!
dorothy williamson says
I just found this wonderful website. What an awsome idea, I am just now joining and will post my “felties” as soon as they are finished. Also, I am a Dir. at a Senior Center and this looks like an awsome project for my seniors to work on this year in craft time. Would that be ok to enlarge the patterns so it is easier for them to work with?
Sally says
Hi! I got all excited and decided to post mine even though I hadn’t sewn them together yet!
Claudia says
I’m so glad you did, Sally!
Linda aka Crafty Gardener says
I had fun making the January felt critters and I’ll be gathering up what I need for the February ones during this snowy day.
Claudia says
Perfect thing to do on a snowy day, Linda.
Sally says
Claudia, I’m having such a good time looking at everyone’s!
Claudia says
Yay!
Bonnie says
Love all the posts of the ornaments. I hadn’t started making them yet. But now feel inspired. Such lovely idea girls
Claudia says
Thanks so much, Bonnie!
Donnamae says
I love how everyone is putting their own stamp on the critters. There is so much creativity out there. This is a fun post! ;)
Claudia says
It is – I love seeing what others create with the basic pattern!
Lou Ann says
Hi,
I am have a great deal of trouble printing these patterns on both sites. I can open them but not print them. Any ideas of what I am doing wrong? Thanks for your help
Claudia says
Not sure why, Lou Ann. It might have to do with your browser or your printer. They should download and then you should be able to select print on your computer and print them out. If you keep having trouble, go to Dawn’s blog and send her an email. She’ll be happy to send the patterns to you.
Susan Jaggers says
I had the same problem Lou Ann and then realized that the problem was that I was trying to print from the zipped file (silly me!). Instead of clicking to open in viewer first, just right click and extract the file. You should have no problem printing after that!
Claudia says
Good point, Susan! Thanks for that reminder. I edited the post to include that bit of important information!
Lou Ann says
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! That was a great help and worked wonderfully
Nancy Blue Moon says
Almost done with first two..the new ones are also adorable..Thanks!
Claudia says
Thanks so much, Nancy!
Adelina says
Thank you Claudia ! I think that when we get to December we will have full control over tyr felt !
Greetings.
Adelina
Claudia says
Yes, hopefully we will, Adelina!
Marianne L says
These are so cute, Claudia! I just found out that I will have to have chemotherapy and I will need something to do during the treatments. I think these little guys may be just the thing. (Check out my blog to get the chemo story.)
Claudia says
I think they might be the perfect project for you, Marianne. I just went over to your blog post and left a comment. xoxo
Laurel Stephens says
I’m enjoying your challenge a lot! It’s so fun to see what everyone’s doing here, and I’m garnering lots of ideas for future ornaments. Thank you for hosting your ornament party.
Claudia says
So glad to hear you are getting ideas and enjoying the challenge, Laurel!
Dawn says
Thank you Claudia for all your hard work in co-hosting this with me. It is a pleasure!!
Diane says
The felt ornaments party is such a fun idea. I’m enjoying all the creative ornaments. Thanks for co-hosting Claudia, glad I had time to join in!
Debbie says
Thank you for co-hosting! The ornaments are cute and fun to make. I’m so glad I was able to post a picture of my ornaments.
Marguerite says
Thank you for doing this. I made the first 2 animals the day the patterns were posted. So much fun and so relaxing to hand sew and I enjoy putting my personal twist on each one. I made the sheep last night.
I am disappointed not to be able to share my critters at the party. I tired the facebook method but fell at the first hurdle. I am not tech savvy in the least. I got to step 3 where the photo opens with choices and couldn’t make that happen.
Anyway many thanks again for such enjoyment and a great blog.
By the way when I saw your new red shoes I was immediately taken back to my days of clog dancing in Devon as my wooden clogs had bright red leather uppers.