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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:37 pm 
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Last summer I started making some spun cotton pinecone elves.
I really liked making them alot.

I even had some fun finding the supplies to make them look vintage.
Only problem is they really are not scaled right for a putz house.

Earlier this year I swapped some putz supplies with Lynn, from the forums.
In the box was a small spun cotton santa.
He's about 1 3/4" tall. A good size for a putz house.

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I tried my hand at making a tutorial.
I have posted a sharable link to a PDF file on my google drive.

i will hold a bit before posting file to the forums. I'd like to iron out any issues or confusion
before the final version.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=15fql_ ... f1K-J476zJ

Please let me know if you find it useful.

Steve


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Steve,
I love this little Santa. It's excellent. The directions look very nice and doable.

I wonder if you could use felt for the hat. Is there a reason you used red velvet paper? Maybe because it is thinner?

Thank you so much for sharing this. It's wonderful.
Lucy


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I used the velvet paper as it was what the vintage one used.
Plus it glues up much nicer than felt would.

You could by all means use felt, but I wanted the more vintage look.

Steve


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Well, that makes sense and I bet it would work better, too.

Lucy


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Hi Steve,

Great reproduction, and your instructions are top notch!! :)


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Steve...

outstanding tutorial!...it cover it all and leaves nothing to the imagination...

by the way...nice little house, too!... :lol:

my very best regards...

Howard...

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Well I used up all of my original supply of spun cotton.
I got 12 out my initial order.

Got plenty once christmas roll around again.

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How cute they look together!!

Nice job!!


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