Cut fabric into a star shape with a flat bottom (for his bum).
Line your star cut-out with your liner fabric (you may skip this part if you feel like your shiny fabric is strong / thick enough).
Sew the star with back-stitch. Leave the bottom hole open.
Flip that star through the bottom hole and set it aside.
Draw a mock-up of Albert's face and cut a few layers of poly batting in approximately his shape. If you are using poly fill instead, you can skip this part and start needle felting a rough base shape shown in next step.
Stab it some.
To speed up the felting of the base, use soap and hot water to gently massage it until it starts feeling noticeably more felted. You may skip this step if you have more patience than me at stabbing.
Add facial features with core wool such as cheeks, chin, and forehead.
Add top wool.
As well as smaller facial features like lips.
Cut glass pins to length so they don't poke through the face. Bend them downward a little and pin at a slight angle downward so they more secure (than poking them straight towards the back).
Sew your optional bells at the five tips of Albert’s body.
Stuff Albert with poly fill.
Sew Albert's face on his body. Put him aside.
For Albert's guts, it's just a small pocket. Cut out a piece of rectangle that is roughly the width of his bottom hole and cut the length at double however long your christmas tree tip is. Mine was around 6ish" long that folded into a 3" deep pocket. Sewn with running stitch back and forth.
Flip his gut pocket inside out. Shove it at his bottom. Sew it onto its body (make sure to sew it to the top and lining fabric together for strength cause that part will need it).
NOTE: Shipments are expected first week of January, but we are working with the supplier to attempt Christmas time delivery!!
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2022 Xmas card trades were mini shaker bottles!...because past!Me decided to randomly buy some. Can you see the common thread between all my craft projects XDD These were actually pretty quick to put together all things considering (which was great cos I started them really late lol).
Pro tip never use plastic bottles like I did because ugh they scratch so easily.
Made from: Mini plastic bottles, craft paper, pipecleaner, felt, beads, buttons, thread, matchsticks, random scrapbooking bits and bobs
For all you crafty babes you can make your own popup postcards! 🌟 From a chonky pigeon to a gingerbread house, I designed these 2 years ago and I still love them so much! 🎄
To make your own, just grab your fave from my digital downloads shop here 🎅
These Christmas ornaments makes me wish I was Jewish. Wait, am I? Let’s see. No that isn’t definitive, a lot of men …wait did I type that? Pretend you didn’t read this.
Albert, child of night. He may look a bit like a fool with a plastic tree up his bum but he brings us merriment for the festive season.
Made with recycled fabric, acrylic fiber, poly stuffing, glass pins, cat toy bells, and threads.
I tried to film the making of Albert and it was a very intrusive act to my craft trance. I already knew filming and editing is a different set of work in itself, but it makes me appreciate the effort of well thought-out youtube creators even more. I don’t know how they stay in one place and film almost 90% of their process because I was literally crying from forcing my hands to stay on my table while not being able to see where my needle is poking at with my heavily astigmatized vision plus an accursed eye floater that refuses to leave whom I have named Jezebel.
Hopefully I will edit the footages into something decent soon.
Some inked busts of a few of my more unique coatls- first is Aeon, the jackalope-inspired winter mage; then we have his son Lampyris, a buglike oddity and child of the weird!