Love those 'meeces' to pieces

Hi all, Michelle here with a little sewing project. I love to play with my pretty paper, inks and glue but every now and then I get the urge to do some sewing! This happened the other day and while I was trying to think of a little project to tackle my memory flipped back to these little felt mice that I used to love making as a kid.

 

They are so simple, quick and easy to make and each one will always be unique.

 

The starting point is 2 slightly elongated half circles for the body sides and a tear drop shape for the base. My mice are about 2’’ long to give you a guide to size.

 

The three pieces are simply sewn together with a blanket stitch. I like to use a contrasting colour and I like the shabby look of the big thick stitching but you can of course do it in a colour that matches and make smaller stitches for a neater finish. Leave a gap along one side of the base to add the stuffing which is just some ordinary cotton wool and when you stitch up the body catch a length of felt in the back for the tail.

 

Cut two small circles of felt with a little ‘nick’ taken out of them for the ears, stitch the nick up to create shape to the ear and sew onto the body.

 

Add a French knot for the nose and two smaller ones for the eyes and some whiskers made from the embroidery thread complete your mouse … shimples!

 

For a real shabby chic look I cut a mouse body from some calico and doodled some flowers on the pieces with my pro markers. This mouses features were added with beads and then …

 

 … I couldn’t resist blinging up one of my meeces with some sparkly embellishments and sequins.

You could really come up with some weird and wonderful critters and I think these are great, fun, easy and quick makes if you’re holding a craft stall at a summer fete and they are simple enough for the kids to make .. maybe as a little gift for teacher at the end of term! It's also a thrifty way to use up all those scraps we keep! I hope you have fun creating some little meeces of your own and I’ll see you soon … tomorrow in fact with the rest of the creative girls and the simple things project!

Thanks for stopping by, until soon happy crafting

Love

M x

Comments

[jayne]

Cute, love the little promarker flowers too x

[Carmen]

Oh so cute! I love your meeces too!

[alexa]

These are delightful! I could see these at the bottom of a Christmas stocking too ...

[Eleanor]

Adorable, new kitty would love to get her teeth into your meeth.
I fancy making a dozen or so, and decorating a simple dead branch with them.
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xx

[Suzanne]

Oh they are adorable!

[Lynne V]

They are gorgeous.

[joy aitman]

Fantastic. Well done everyone!