Dala Horses

This past week I have been working on making felt dala horse ornaments. I absolutely LOVE how they turned out. I made 20, each hand stitched by me :) Although a bit time consuming they are super easy to make. I copied a picture of a dala horse off the interweb and traced it onto red felt (40 times for 20 horses). I then stitched a design on each side of the horse, and whip stitched them together. I didn't have any cotton or fluff to fill them with, so I just used the scrap felt and it worked just fine. I still need to add some string to the top so that I can hang them on our Christmas tree (that we don't have yet, but making ornaments seems like a step in the right direction to getting a tree).

 Ah I love them so much. Ben and I have been playing with them since I have finished them. We stack them, put them in funny places, organize them, and generally just look at them and smile. The other night when I was brushing my teeth, I came back into the bedroom to see on my my little horse friends lying on my pillow! Ben also suggested that I make hats and scarfs for them....we'll see about that.

Here are some more pictures, just because they are so cute.

And here is the only picture with all of them. Pile of ponies!!