Felt Mailboxes: The project that took forever
Posted by Little Sister on 25 Mar 2009 at 09:16 pm | Tagged as: sewing, wool felt
I’ve been working on these little felt mailboxes for ages now, and had planned to finish them much earlier. I have visions of leaving little love notes to my littles for them to find in their mailboxes. I hope they’ll be as popular as I keep imagining… things rarely are!
I was sort of making it up as a I went along, and now looking at the finished project, I’m thinking they are a bit long… they could stand to be a house shorter, or maybe even half the length they are now. And the felt on the inside is a bit loose because of some spatial-relation deficits on my part, but otherwise, I’m pretty pleased.
I think if I made them again, I’d just glue on the countless little, itty, bitty, teeny, tiny windows and doors rather than blanket-stitch them all. Really, what was I thinking? So now, I definitely should be back here more often. No more marathon projects for a while… I need to do some Easter crafting and a few other little things. But for now, I’ll enjoy the finished mailboxes (and the freedom their completion gives me to FINALLY move on to the next project).
Those are SO cute! Can I have one?
I want love notes, too. Seriously, though, I can’t wait to hear what Mia and Lucas think of them!
Those are so fabulous with wonderful stitching! I bet the kids will love them, I made my nephew a “mail bag” once and it’s on child three. I bet the mail box would be even more appreciated than that was.
Wow I Love these! I don’t think they’re too long at all, that gives them more room inside.. and I think the stitching on the little windows makes them look better than they would if they were glued.. Well Done! I’m sure they’ll treasure them always.