Hello, friends especially needleworkers or DIY ers!
Back with me, like I always say, what I love about Sunday, I usually have some free times to my hobby, crafting. This time I got an idea to make a cute avocado bag charm, and I am very satisfied with the result. And good thing is it didn’t spend much time, so you could also try it at home, it would be easy and fun.
Project Time: approximately 2-2.5 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Required Skills:
- Whipped stitch
- French knot
- Back stitch
- Blanket Stitch
Materials & Things Needed:
- Unused thick paper
- A marker or anything to draw
- Scissors, here I used two kind of it, one paper scissors for larger thing while for the smaller things I used my small craft scissors
- Felt fabrics in green, soft green, soft pink, and brown
- Water erasable marker, you could use any color you like, here I used the blue one
- Embroidery floss in soft pink, brown, soft green, green, and black
- Sewing needle
- Bag hook or any keychain you have at home
- Pink fabric ribbon, you could use any other colors you like
- Dacron or cotton balls for the filling
Easy steps how to:
1ST
I drew the pattern of avocado on a piece of unused paper with my black marker. To make sure it was symmetric, I folded it in the middle then cut it. After that I copied them to the green felt fabric. I made two of it.
2ND
After that, I cut off the outer part of my pattern, then the smaller one, I copied on my soft green felt. Then, I cut it off, only one of it needed. Then I cut of a circle of the brown felt. Two small circles of soft pink for the cheeks. Ta da, here were the pieces I made.
3RD
Next, I whipped stitch two of the soft pink circles for the cheeks on the soft green felt. Then the circle brown below. I also used the whipped stitch this time. For all the whipped stitch I used two strands of the floss. After that, I used six strands of black floss to French knot the eyes. Then I back stitched the mouth with two strands of the green floss. Now the front part is finished. You could see that the avocado has two cute eyes, a mouth with two chubby cheeks plus a big brown seed. For this front part, I whipped stitch it with the green back.
4TH
After that, before finished with the whipped stitch it, I prepared the hook with the pink ribbon, then sew it behind the green front part.
5TH
Then, I continued it and did the blanket stitch to the front part of green fabric. Fill some Dacron in it. After that I closed it. And voile, this cute avocado bag charm is now ready.
Do you also like this cute avocado like I do?
Thanks for reading my article, hope you enjoy it, and stay tune for more CRAFT things from me.
A bit about the author
She works in a bank but she interests in CRAFT (CRaft, Art, Food and Travel). To pursue her art passion she does the cross stitch, embroidery, handsewing, crafts, crochet and also draws. Find hers in https://www.redbubble.com/people/de-creartique/shop?asc=u and https://decreartique.threadless.com/designs . Also find her cute collectibles pixel cat pictures here https://opensea.io/collection/pixelcryptocat .