Chronicles of an announced gift - the end result

As promised, here is the final result of the gift I've been working on this week:

Gorgeous, aren't they? I first saw these booties when I was looking up for things to do with felt and I loved them.  When my friend invited me to her baby girl's christening, I thought: now it's my chance to give them a go!

This is the tutorial on how to make them. 

As you can see, my results is a bit different: I decided to experiment with a different colour stitching and my stitches are closer to the edge, which I'm not convinced about. But that is the beauty of handmade stuff, I guess: each piece is unique. 

I hope you had fun following this chronicle!

Check here for the clues previous to this final post.
Cost of the materials: €8-10 approx.

Bead by bead - rings

OK, so I haven't posted for a while - shame on me! That doesn't mean that I haven't been crafting, I just haven't been posting. My apologies for that. 

I'll try to catch up with the "unreported" crafts as quickly as possible...

This one is about beading and it all started when a friend of mine gave me a bag full of beads that she wasn't going to use. So I started to look for projects. I came across a blog ingeniously called My daily bead, which has "Jewelry Making Ideas and Tutorials". 

So I chose a basic one, a Christmas one. 

This is the blog's photo:

And this is my 1st attempt:

Bar the difference in colouring & the lack of expertise, it ain't bad, baby!

Then I improvised with the colours I had, so an Irish one and a Pinky one followed the Christmassy one:



So difficult to choose which one to wear... I'll wear all 3 at the same time! Why not?





And they I tried these chunkier beads for a.... chunkier finish. This is my favourite one, I actually wear all the time:

 

And these are other combinations that I made:



Do you like them?
They are not difficult to make, honest. Give it a go!