Welcome to Creative Friday.
Today I am posting a craft that I shared on Rhythm of the Home online Magazine previously. It is for a knitted needle saver with an autumn theme. It could be any theme really, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Easter etc… just change the colours and the felt motif on the front and there you go.
Materials:
DK Merino yarn, I have used a naturally dyed yarn that has been dyed with Peach Bracket Mushrooms.
4mm straight knitting needles.
Wool sewing needle
Embroidery needle
Scissors
Material
Felt
Pinking Shears
Pattern:
Cast on 30 stitches.
Knit 5 rows of garter stitch.
Row 6: Knit 5 stitches, purl 20 stitches, knit 5 stitches.
Row 7: Knit
Alternate rows 6 and 7 twelve times finishing on a purl row.
Knit 5 rows of garter stitch.
Cast off
Sew in all the ends with a wool needle.
 If you would like to make your folder lie flat, just block it on a piece of felt. To block, dampen and pin into position and allow to dry.
Cut a piece of cotton material with a pinking shears to fit just inside of your knitted cover. Cut it slightly smaller.
Sew the liner onto the knitted cover with thread.
Cut a piece of yellow felt to stitch into your sewing book. Sew along the left side to secure into the sewing book.
Draw an Oak Leaf onto a piece of yellow felt and cut it out. Sew along the main vein of the leaf with dark cotton.
Sew the Oak Leaf onto the front of the needle book cover.
Thank you so much to everyone who shares the love and posts their links to their amazing work:) Please feel free to post your links to anything you have created and would like to share, it can be a recipe, sewing tutorial, knitting tutorial, felting, crochet, crafts, art, spinning, weaving, working with fibre, photography, poetry…etc…
I also love to hear from you, so if you have a moment, please leave a comment:) Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent with us! Just add the name of your blog to the widget and then add your blog link with the http:// at the beginning of your link address:) I have added a Creative Friday button on the sidebar of my blog, please feel free to add it to your blog for Creative Friday and link it to http://www.naturalsuburbia.blogspot.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)
1. I have started a Creative Friday Flickr Group where you can post your beautiful photos that you link to each Creative Friday.
2. If you would be so kind as to link back to Natural Suburbia in your blog post that would be lovely:)
Have a wonderful day,
xo
What a great wee project! I have been keeping half an eye out for a pattern for a needle saver for a friend who has just got into sewing- this would be a perfect gift for her! Thanks.
Fantastic, looks good!
Linda love your little needle case! Happy Friday to everyone! Six to eight inches of snow coming to Nebraska this weekend! It was 60 two days ago! That’s how it goes in this part of the world!
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Some of my patterns are exclusive to Craftsy!
Best,
Sheila
You share such great projects – my to-do list has a good portion dedicated to Natural Surburbia ideas!
Linda–This is a really sweet little needle case! I love these and could have a million of them!
(Maybe that would be a fun swap to do sometime…?!?!) XXO–
I’ve been needing a needle case for ages, and it didn’t even occur to me to knit one! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Thank you so much for hosting Linda!
(by the way, my link should read crafting ADD as in attention deficit disorder, not crafting add, lol.)
Sweet project! It would make a great stocking-stuffer, too (what, you’re not starting your crafting for next Christmas yet…?)
Clever project and very handy, I shall have to make myself one! Have a great week!
I hope you like my blanket for a doll and a dwarf who walks. Best regardes from Croatia, Europe!
sweet little needle holder, great tutorial, thanks for sharing…
Thanks for sharing the cool craft Linda, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to share what I have been up to this week 😀 Glad I had something to post once again.
xx
Nat
Thanks for the opportunity. I always love your Friday listings. Now I’m starting out my blog and proud to be able to share my creation.
Great tutorial for the needle saver! Thank you for sharing!
so pretty!
What a beautiful project to care for the needles (which I am always losing)
I love your needle book project, great fabric print and colors! Thanks for hosting creative Fridays 🙂
So lovely, all the colours and textures are wonderful! I love the fabric you used and the leaf applique. I really need to make myself a needlebook one of these days, I have a terrible habit of sticking my needle into a fold in my pants when I’m not using it…
so cute!
love, xxx Alessandra
nice idea!
I pinned this lovely idea!
The needle saver reminds me of my Mom. She was always sewing and there were pin cushions and needle savers all over the dining room. That’s where the sewing machine was and the dining table was her cutting table. That table was where I studied (carefully avoiding her pattern pieces) and I read the English newspapers to my Dad, who spoke English fluently and read Polish but was not too great at anything but simple English when it came to reading. We ate at this table only on special occasions. The rest of the time we ate at the kitchen table.
I am a knitter and a quilter and a sewer, this little needle book is perfect for me!! Thank you! I love it!