Thursday, July 12, 2007

Felting: My own red roses

Continuing on from the blue felted flowers I made a couple of weeks ago, here's a few red ones which I think would make great corsages. They would also look nice embellishing a bag so I plan to mount them onto brooch pins.

I haven't embellished them yet as I quite like the woolly look and feel. Perhaps once they've been sitting looking at me for a couple of weeks, they'll tell me what they need! :)

This takes me up to two felted flower patterns - one knit & one crochet. I've been thinking of selling them on somewhere like Etsy, but I'm not sure whether to sell a booklet, each pattern individually, or to simply sell the corsages made up. The patterns would be easier and cheaper to sell/post. Hmmm... What do you think? As usual, your comments and feedback would be really appreciated.

We'll talk more about Craftybernie at Etsy soon....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The flowers are very pretty! I have a shop on ESTY and it is very difficult to get a following unless you are outgoing and sell yourself, which I am not good ate. Look around ESTY and see who are selling the felted flower and/or patterns and see how it is going with them. I am The felting Editor with Graft Gossip and look at ESTY for felters to write about.

This is my blog, just started this felting blog.

http://loulouartfelt.blogspot.com/

Look over the articles on all sorts of crafts covered.

http://craftgossip.com/

Carol said...

It's about time! If you sold just the patterns, you'd have more design time. But it really depends on your mood I suppose, whether or not you wish to make the items or not. I think it's greand you're doing this!

Piglottie said...

Oh, I love the flowers Bernie! I think maybe offer both options - the finished flower, and the pattern and see how things go?