About this Product
"Catching Snowflakes" is an adorable, easy-to-make addition to your Christmas/winter holiday decor! This charming, dimensional, felt wall hanging features a chubby snowman and his two penguin buddies, happily catching snowflakes with their tongues, as they drift down from the sky. Designed to be made with heirloom quality, wool blend felt (but can be made with any felt you wish!) and snowflake sequin accents, this adorable wall hanging will surely become a treasured part of your family's Christmas decorating traditions! Since it's not Christmas specific, you could even leave it up all winter! This PDF PATTERN is not difficult to make but is intended for intermediate sewists because it assumes a basic knowledge of hand sewing stitches and techniques which are not taught within the pattern. If you're a beginner or just not familiar with hand sewing and would like to make this project, tutorials for the stitches are readily available online. NOT A FINISHED ITEM. With this PDF PATTERN you will make: * Felt Snow Globe wall hanging, approximately 16.5" X 20", featuring snowman and two penguins. The extensive, easy to understand booklet includes full-scale pattern templates--NO ENLARGING NECESSARY, cutting layouts, easy to follow step-by-step instructions with lots of full color photos and a complete materials lists with sources, so that if you'd like, you can make the project exactly as shown. ***PLEASE NOTE: some parts of this project require felt yardage and/or large, 12" X 18" felt sheets--their templates will not fit on standard 9" X 12" felt sheets. The snowflake sequins used in this pattern, in an amount suitable for completing the project, are available for purchase for $5 which includes shipping in a padded envelope. If you'd like to purchase these, please send me a message and include the pattern purchase order number and I will set up a custom listing for you. This Original Treehouse Patterns Design is copyright protected 9/15/2022 and may not be shared, copied, redistributed or resold. This pattern MAY NOT be used to make items for sale. These item requires a PDF viewer and prints best on 8 1/2 X 11 letter paper but every effort has been made to assure it prints equally well on A4 paper. Please contact me with any questions or concerns--I'm here to help you succeed! 9/15/2022
Treehouse Patterns
Meet the Maker
My felt food obsession happened "by accident" when my granddaughters were quite young. My youngest daughter emailed me a picture of the play kitchen her girls were getting for Christmas. The picture showed kids playing with some sort of "fake" food--I got to browsing and ran across all sorts of tutorials for DIY felt food. I made a few pieces from the tutorials and patterns others had designed but never being content with anything "ready made"--patterns or anything else I could possibly make myself, I started designing my own felt food. It proved to be addicting and I showed my creations to anyone who would stand still long enough to look. One day my brother saw what I had made and asked where I was selling them. "Selling them...? I'm not selling them..." He replied, "Well, you should". So I poked around, found a venue and the TreehouseToyShop was born. I started getting a lot of requests for patterns for my felt food and it seemed logical to open a dedicated pattern shop and now here we are...TreehousePatterns! Look around, ask questions, leave suggestions and comments and maybe pick up a pattern or two. I hope you'll be a regular here! :-D Plans are in the works to reopen the TreehouseToyShop, with finished, ready-to-ship felt food! Occasionally I do custom orders for the finished items now, so if you're looking for that service, or for felt food I don't currently offer, let me know...we may be able to work something out!
How it’s Made
Each Treehouse Patterns design is first sketched out by hand and then digitized to produce clear, professional looking templates. They're then tested in acrylic felt to ensure all the components fit together as intended. Adjustments are made to the pattern as needed and then tested in acrylic felt once again. Once I'm happy with the final result, a complete prototype is made to be absolutely sure the entire pattern works together and that I haven't missed anything. Then I proceed to making the final version out of the intended materials--wool blend felt. My work doesn't end there. The step-by-step photos must be edited for clarity, the "Beauty Shot" for the cover must be taken and the instructions written up and proofread. Only when I'm convinced that my creation is as perfect as I can possibly make it, do I publish it. A lot of time and effort goes into each step along the way, to make sure the final product is an easy to understand, easy to make pattern. Sometimes the acrylic prototypes are sold at a discount, either here in my pattern shop or in my toy shop. The final set, used in the beauty shot, is also sold in one of my shops, at full price. If you're interested in finished items, watch for the prototype to go on sale shortly after the pattern is released. Or, if you prefer, you can contact me for a finished item price and I can set up a special listing for you. Finished items can take 3-6 weeks to make, depending on my current workload.
