Green Eggs and Ham Tutorial

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

This simple green eggs and ham felt food tutorial will let you celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday 365 days a year!

Do you like

green eggs and ham?

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

I do not like

green eggs and ham.

Materials
Felt: white, light green, dark green
Embroidery thread: white, light green, dark green
Embroidery needle
Polyfil


Directions
1. Cut felt food pieces using template (2 dark green ovals, 1 light green oval, 2 small light green circles, 1 small white circle, 4 white egg shapes).

2. Place pieces on top of each other, making 2 green eggs and 1 slice of green ham.

3. Sew green yolk onto one piece of white egg, using a running stitch. Stuff yolk before sewing shut. Repeat for second egg.

4. Sew two pieces of white eggs together, using a running stitch. I did not stuff the white part of the egg, but you can if you'd like your egg to be fluffy. Repeat for second egg.

5. Sew white circle onto left hand side of light green oval, using running stitch. Sew light green oval onto one dark green oval, using running stitch.

6. Sew ham slice onto second dark green oval, using a blanket stitch. Stuff ham slice before seeing shut.

7. Enjoy your very own plate of green eggs and ham!

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© 2012 Melissa/Crafting with Cat Hair

Please remember that items made using my patterns and tutorials are for personal use only and can not be sold for profit. Thanks!

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Happy Valentine's Day, Sucker! 

I couldn't resist. :) 

Flashback Valentine's Day gift

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Ahhh! I used to love friendship bracelets. Wouldn't this make such a cute (and cheap) Valentine's Day gift for a class? Check out Dollar Store Crafts for a link to the tutorial and download.

I'll take one of the black and gold ones, please! :)

I was never really into trains

I know that a lot of little girls and boys love trains, but I was never one of them. As a child, I never hated them, just never really had any desire to play with them.

My hatred for them came later in life when I went away to college at the University of Florida. I was not cool enough to have my own car at school, and the Gainesville airport was such a rinky dink thing that my mom forced persuaded me to take the train home to Ft. Lauderdale.

I rode the train 4 or 5 times before my best friend got a car and then was able to drive me home with her. But man, those 4 or 5 train trips were the pits: swaying back and forth for 8 hours, listening to the non stop screeching of the wheels on the rails, stopping every few minutes to pick people up and drop people off, and having to walk to other cars just to use the bathroom. Not fun!

I actually chuckled a little when I came across this awesome tutorial, via Design Sponge, for a vintage train case. It brought back all those horrific fun memories of riding the train in college!

This train case is really super cute, and the fact that it is a charging station would help me immensely since Drusilla loves to eat my cords!

Do you have an old, vintage train case you don't know what to do with? (My family used to have a light blue one with a gold interior, but I am pretty sure it was sold at a garage sale years ago.) Why not make it into something fun!

How about an electric guitar?

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Or a pet feeder?

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Or spruce it up and give it as a gift?

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Or how about a jewelry display case?

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I know this one is a suitcase, but I thought all of you jewelry designers would love to see this one!

And check out this adorable suitcase bed from Atomic Attic.

I definitely think the girls would like to take a nap on one of these. The kitty in the picture even looks like Daphne. :)

So many possibilities! I guess I'll be heading to the Goodwill this weekend to begin my search for vintage train cases and suitcases. I've never looked for suitcases before, so I'm interested to see what I will find. I'm just glad I don't have to ride on a train to find one!