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Pondlife – Scraphappy Day October 2023

Posted by tialys in Arts and Crafts, Miscellaneous Crafts on October 15, 2023

I made a felt frog using one of Cool Crafting‘s designs.

It was supposed to be a lady frog but I couldn’t get the green glass eyes and the amber ones made him look more masculine in my opinion so I decided against the suggested flower coronet and left him naked as most frogs tend to be. I know this because we had thousands of tadpoles in our pond and the froglets I’ve seen so far are as naked as the day they were spawned. However, I have it on good authority that, sometimes, a frog prince is born and he, of course, would wear a crown.

In case you’re wondering what this has to do with Scraphappy Day, I made the crown out of some lining left over from a dressmaking project. It has quite a lot of body in it so I just cut the crown shape out in two layers, sewed them right sides together and turned it out. Then I made the ‘jewels’ by practising my newly discovered (and still far from expert) French knots.

Even though I’d decided to leave him ‘in the nip’ I felt something was missing from the scenario so I made him a lily pad to sit on.

I had a green cashmere jumper that had gone bobbly beyond saving so I had previously put it in the washing machine a few times and saved the resulting felted fabric. Perfect to cut out a lily pad shape.

I backed it with some green ombré fabric from my scrap box and added a ‘something special’ label.

Finally, my friend owns a craft shop and was getting rid of some excess bits and pieces and gave me a couple of fabric flower shapes, one of which made the perfect addition to the lily pad.

So the frog, aided by a little bit of Scraphappiness, is now ready for a kiss to turn him into a real boy.

Or was that Pinocchio?

Scraphappy Day is organised by Kate & Gun for anybody who wants to make new things from scraps of any kind – doesn’t have to be fabric or yarn. Here’s a list of participants – both regular and occasional – if you want to have a look at the sort of things you can do with scraps.

Contact Kate or Gun (first names on the list) if you want to join in.