{"id":7814,"date":"2013-12-18T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2013-12-18T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T18:32:04","slug":"felting-girly-hair-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7814","title":{"rendered":"Felting + Girly Hair Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Still slaving away, trying to crank out handmade gifts, though I came to my senses yesterday and decided to purchase a few gifts rather than trying to make everything<\/em>. My mantra is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy-and-don’t-keel-over-from-stress, and I’m choosing the path of least resistance. I need to add in at least one more cliche there…<\/p>\n

I don’t want to reveal all my gifts in case any of the recipients are passing through here (unlikely, but you never know), but I’m pretty excited about this new-to-me felting goodness.<\/p>\n

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I got a bunch of these wool felt packs from\u00a0Daiso<\/a>, which is a Japanese dollar store here in Seattle. Each pack comes with three tufts of wool felt in different colors and only costs $1.50! I got the needles separately\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0(a great toy store with high quality art supplies for kids and kids-at-hearts), but I later discovered that Daiso actually carries the needles as well. Oh well.<\/p>\n

I am thoroughly enamored with felt garlands, and wanted to make a mini-version. Above you can see my attempts at minuscule pom poms. They’re really easy to make – I didn’t even bother with the needles (they’re just there for show – I like how they look) and just dipped them in hot water and rolled, rolled, rolled with my hands into hardened felt balls. I doused them in hot water after every few rolls, and I think they look great. Look, a snowman!<\/p>\n

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I’m also thinking of doing some fancier shapes with the felt and making them into hair accessories. This one below I made last year and it’s held up amazingly well. Hair clips are so charming, no?<\/p>\n

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I will show you my handiwork once I’ve finished them!<\/p>\n

So, given my frenetic elvish workshop-mode, I may or may not be posting an outfit tomorrow. Look for an update some time in the \u00a0afternoon-ish tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still slaving away, trying to crank out handmade gifts, though I came to my senses yesterday and decided to purchase a few gifts rather than trying to make everything. My mantra is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy-and-don’t-keel-over-from-stress, and I’m choosing the path of least resistance. I need to add in at least one more cliche there… I don’t want to reveal all my gifts in case any of the recipients are passing through here (unlikely, but you never know), but I’m pretty excited about this new-to-me felting goodness. I got a bunch of these wool felt packs from\u00a0Daiso, which is a Japanese dollar store here in Seattle. Each pack comes with three tufts of wool felt in different colors and only costs $1.50! I got the needles separately\u00a0here\u00a0(a great toy store with high quality art supplies for kids and kids-at-hearts), but I later discovered that Daiso actually carries the needles as well. Oh well. I am thoroughly enamored with felt garlands, and wanted to make a mini-version. Above you can see my attempts at minuscule pom poms. They’re really easy to make – I didn’t even bother with the needles (they’re just there for show – I like how they look) and just dipped them in hot water and rolled, rolled, rolled with my hands into hardened felt balls. I doused them in hot water after every few rolls, and I think they look great. Look, a snowman! I’m also thinking of doing some fancier shapes with the felt and making them into hair accessories. This one below I made last year and it’s held up amazingly well. Hair clips are so charming, no? I will show you my handiwork once I’ve finished them! So, given my frenetic elvish workshop-mode, I may or may not be posting an outfit tomorrow. Look for an update some time in the \u00a0afternoon-ish tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crafts","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7838,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}