Felt Forest Fox

 Nichol Spohr has designed a delightful suite of felt stitching products with Spellbinders, which she calls her Felt Stitch and Create Collection!  I was thrilled to get the adorable Felt Forest Fox!  I made 1 sample, and then styled her 2 different ways with paper accessories.

supplies: Felt Forest Fox dies, brown, cream, black, and peach felt, 3 strands of embroidery floss to match, 2 layers of Warm & Natural quilt batting

I used wool felt that I have here at home.  Nichol gives wonderful directions on how to assemble this sweet fox HERE, and they were very helpful.   I especially liked how she showed us how to bring the eyes to life with a bit of sparkle and those adorable little lashes.  With eyes like these, of course this is a little girl!  I had a paper bow in my stash, so I just popped it on as I was taking my pictures.

Here's another with flowers instead of the bow.  Just some ideas on how to personalize these.......

supplies: Felt Forest Fox dies, brown, cream, black, and peach wool felt, 3 strands of embroidery floss to match, 2 layers of Warm & Natural quilt batting

I really enjoyed this process.  So much so that I started another with some cheaper felt that I have, but abandoned that quickly, as it shredded pretty easily.  Spellbinders has a nice grouping of ten 8 X 12" Merino wool felt sheets in various colorways to work with Nichole's other stitching kits.

If you're wondering, the fox measures a bit over 4" wide by 5+" tall.  So it could be done 1-layered and added to a card, if you so wish.  I may try that next, since I'm out of felt!

Be sure to look at the rest of Nichol's collection; there's a star-shaped snowman, an owl, a reindeer, some gingerbread people, plus more!

I also wanted to let you know about the current Spellbinders Early Black Friday sale, which will last until November 28 - it's huge and there are lots of savings to be had!