learn how to micro crochet : DIY felt whale bag charm

1. Introduction: Hi, everyone. I'm Eva from Hana Kushi Design. Thank you for taking your time to join my class today. In this video, I will show you how to make an adorable wheelbck charm using felt fabric. I will walk you through all the tools and materials you will need to get started. Don't worry if you don't have a cutting machine, you can absolutely cut the pieces by hand. We will go step by step through the process from making the crochet flowers, cutting and sewing the felt pieces to adding cute little details that bring your will to life. This makes a lovely handmade gift, a fun decoration for your backpack, or a creative way to add some personality to your accessories. And if you have cutting machine at home, we're going to personalize the charm by adding a name on Acrylic keychain. So let's grab our felt, get creative and have some fun. Let's jump right in. 2. Lesson 1 : Tools and materials: Hi, everyone. Welcome to my class. I'm so excited to have you here. Before we get started, let's take a quick look at the tools and materials you will need for this project. Don't worry if you don't have everything yet. I'll guide you through each item and explain how we will use them in class. Let's dive in. You will need some felt fabric. I'm using two sheads of grape for this project. This part is optional, but if you have a cutting machine, it will make the whole process easier and faster, and you'll get a precise cuts effortlessly. You will also need embroidery thread in a matching color tone to the felt that you're using and in some other color for the crochet puff flower. You will also need some polyester fiber fill to stuff your felt toy and give it a nice fluffy shape. A key chain to hang your back charm, a five millimeter black bid for the eye Nedles 0.5 millimeter crochet hook to crochet the flour. And for the crochet flour, I use crochet thread number 80. For the puff flower, I'm using the MC embroidery thread, which I split. I only use one strand for each flower to keep it delicate. For embllishment, I'm using Thor round set bits, size eight, and also a four millimeter flat sequin in silver colour. That's so for the two sand materials, now we are ready to start. 3. Lesson 2 : crocheting puff flowers: This lesson, I'll share with you how to crochet this puff flower. To crochet this flower, you will need 0.5 millimeter crochet hook and also embroidery floss of your choice. There are six strands in a skin of embroidery floss. To make this flower, you will only need one strand, so you will need to separate them. To make it easier, I like to wind each separated strand onto an embroidery cut like this. Start with a magic ring. Insert the hook underneath the first tread, pull the second thread underneath the first tread, twist your crochet hook and chain one. Gently loosen your magic ring, and we will start with our petal. Yarn over and insert your hook in the magic ring, yarn over and pull it through. That's my first loop. And this is the second one. Yarn over, insert your hook in the magic ring, yarn over, pull it through. And that's the second loop. Keep repeating these steps until there are ten loops in the magic ring. This is my third loop, and now I'm making the fourth loop. And now I'm making the fifth loop, Y over, insert your hook inside the magic ring, Y over, pull it through, and this is the sixth loop. This is the seventh loop. And this is the eighth loop. The ninth loop. And here's the last one which makes the tenth loop. Hold the magic ring with your pinky finger and gently pull all the loops towards the tip of your crochet hook. Now I'm going to yarn over, pull through all the loops together. Yarn over, and make a slip stitch. And make five chains. One, two, three, four, five, insert your hook into the magic ring, yarn over and pull through the loop. And that is our first petal. I will make the second petal. Y over, insert your hook in the magic ring, yarn over and pull it through. That's my first loop. And this is my second loop. The third loop. This is my fourth loop. The fifth loop, sixth loop, and this is my seventh loop. This is eight loop the ninth loop. And this is the last one, which is the tenth loop. Hold the magic ring with your pinky finger and pull all the loops towards the tip of your crochet hook. I will yarn over and pull through all the loops together. And then yarn over and make a slip stitch. Then I will make five chains, one, two, three, four, five, and then insert your hook into the magic ring. Yarn over and make a slip stitch. And that's it. The second petal is complete. Repeat the same steps for the remaining petals, and there will be five petals in total for each flower. Here I'm making my first loop for the third petal. This is the second loop, the third loop. The fourth loop. This is number five, six loop, seventh loop, eighth loop, ninth loop, and this is the last one tenth loop. Hold the magic ring with your pinky finger and pull all the loops towards the tip of your crochet hook. I will yarn over and pull through all the loops together. Then yarn over and slip stitch. Then I will make five chains, one, two, three, four, five, insert your hook into the magic ring, yarn over, and make a slip stitch. And that's your third petal. Repeat the same steps for the remaining petals. I will speed up the video and come back once I'm done with the last one, which is the fifth petal. I'm almost done with my fourth petal. I gently push all the loops towards the tip of my crochet hook. And then I will yarn over and pull through all the loops together, yarn over and slip stitch. We will chain five, one, two, three, four, five, insert your hook into the magic ring, yarn over, and make a slip stitch. And that's your fourth petal. Now I'm making the last petal, which is the fifth petal. And I'm almost done with my last petal. Gently push all the loops towards the tip of your crochet hook, yarn over and pull through all the loops together. And we're going to yarn over and slip stitch. Make five chains, one, two, three, four, five, insert your hook into the magic ring, y over and make a slip stitch. Trim your thread here, make sure to leave a few inches of allowance as we will sew the flower onto the whee's body. Gently tighten the magic ring by pulling the tail of your thread. Shape the flour while tightening the magic ring. Be extra careful as embroidery thread is very delicate. And that's it. Our puff flower is complete. For this whalbg charm, I added three pff flowers. 4. Lesson 3 : making crochet flower: Now we're going to make this crochet flour. To make this flour, I'm using the MC crochet tread number 80. For this tutorial, I'm using slightly thicker thread. This is crochet tread number 40, so the stitches are easier to see on screen. We will start with magic ring. Rap the thread over your index finger to form an X and hold the cross thread in place with your thumb. Insert your crochet hook under the first strand, pull the top strand under the bottom strand twist the hook, yarn over and pull it through the loop. We will start with our first rule, chin, two, one, two, and then I crochet five treble crochet into the magic ring. Yarn over twice, insert your hook into the magic ring, yarn over and pull it through. You're going to yarn over and pull through the first two loops, yarn over, pull through two loops, and yarn over, pull through the last two loops. And that's our first trouble crochet. Now the second one, yarn over twice. Insert your hook into the magic ring, yarn over and pull it through. Year over, pull through the first two loops, yarn over, pull through two loops, and yarn over, pull through the last two loops. We will keep doing these steps until we have five trouble crochets inside the magic ring. That is my third travel crochet, and I'm making the fourth one now. Y and over twice, insert your hook into the magic ring. Yarn over and pull it through. Yarn over, pull through the first tulips, yarn over, pull through tulops and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. Now, I'm finishing my fifth travel crochet, and that's the last one for this row. Now, let's begin with the second row. Go ahead and flip your crochet work and then chain two to start the roll. Here's my first chain, and now I'm making the second one. I'm going to make two double crochet in the very first stitch, yarn over, insert your hook in the first stitch, yarn over and pull it through. Yarn over, pull through the first two loops, and yarn over, push through two loops. And next the second double crochet, yarn over, insert your hook in the same stitch, yarn over and pull it through, yarn over, pull through the first two loops, yarn over and pull through the last two loops. Now into the next ditch, I will make two trouble crochet. Yarn over twice, insert your hook in the next stage, yarn over, pull it through. Y and over, pull through the first tloops, yarn over, pull through the tulops and yarn over, pull through the last two loops. That's my first trouble crochet, and I'm making the second one. Yan over twice, insert your hook in the same statch. Y over, pull it through. Y and over, push through the first tulops, yarn over, pull through tulips, and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. In the next ditch, I will make two trouble crochet as well. Here's my first trouble crochet, and I'm working on the second one now. I'm making another two travel crochet in the next stitch. That is my first travel crochet, and I'm making the second one now. Yarn over twice inside your hook in the same stitch. Y over, pull it through. Y over, pull through the first tulops, yarn over, pull through Tulops and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. And finally, in the last ditch, I'm going to make two double crochet. This is my first double crochet, and I'm making the second one now yarn over once insert your hook in the same stage. Yarn over, pull it through, yarn over, pull through the first tloops and yarn over, pull through the last tulps. And that's the end for this row. Chain one and then flip your crochet work to start the next row. I'm going to make a single crochet in the first stitch. Two double crochet into the next stitch. This is my first double crochet, and now I'm making the second one. Yarn over, insert your hook in the same stitch, yarn over and pull it through. Yarn over, pull through the first two loops, and yarn over push through Tuloops. Now, into the next stitch, I will make two treble crochet followed by one double crochet. This is my first travel crochet, and I'm making the second one now. Y over twice, insert your hook in the same stitch. Yarn over and pull it through. Y over, pull through the first tloops, Y over, pull through tloops and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. Now I'm making one double crochet in the same stitch. Y over, insert your hook in the same stitch. Y over, pull it through. We're going to yarn over, pull through the first tloops and yarn over, pull through the last two loops. In the next stage, I will make one double crochet and two treble crochet. This is my first double crochet, and now I'm making my first trouble crochet in the same stage. And this is the second trouble crochet work into the same stage as before. One travel crochet and two double crochet in the next stitch. I'm making my first travel crochet, yarn over twice, insert your hook in the next stitch. Yarn over and pull it through. Y over, pull through the first tloops, yarn over, pull through Tulops and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. Next is one double crochet in the same stitch. That's my first double crochet, and now I'm making the second one. In the next ditch, I will make two treble crochet and one double crochet. This is my first trouble crochet, and now I'm making the second one in the same stitch. Y over twice. Ist your hook in the same stitch, Y over, pull it through. Y over, pull through the first tulops. Y over, pull through tulips and y over, pull through the last tloops. Now I'm making one double crochet also in the same stage. Moving on to the next stage, I will make one double crochet and two trouble crochet. That's my double crochet. Next, I'm making the first trouble crochet in the same stage. And this is the second trouble crochet also in the same stage. In the next stage, I will make two double crochet followed by one trouble crochet. I This is my first double crochet, and this is the second double crochet, also in the same stage. And a trable crochet also in the same stage. Yan over twice, insert your hook in the same statge. Y over, pull it through. Y over push through tulips. Y over push through tulips and y over pull through the last tulops. In the next ditche, I will make one trouble crochet followed by one double crochet. I'm done with my trouble crochet, and now I'm making a double crochet also in the same stitch. We are almost done with this rule. In the last stitch, we will make a single crochet and secure it with a slip stitch. That's my single crochet, and I will slip stitch in the same stitch. Now I'm going to connect this stitch to the first row to join them together. To do that, just chin two, one, two, and then slip stitch into the last travel crochet you made in row one. I will connect this stitch into the magic ring. I will start by making three chains, one, two, three, and then we're going to slip stitch into the magic ring. There you have it. The first petal is complete. The next two petals are made using the same steps. Now, let's compare these two flowers. One made with crochet treat number 40, and the other one is made with crochet treat number 80. Now, I'm going to start with second petal. I'll begin with three chains, one, two, three. Then just like the first petal, I will make five treble crochet into the magic ring. That's my first trouble crochet, and I'm making the second one now. Yarn over twice, insert your hook into the magic ring, yarn over and pull it through. Yarn over, pull through the first tu loops, yarn over, pull through tloops and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. Now I'm working on the third trouble crochet. And this is the fourth treble crochet. And this is the fifth treble crochet, which is the last one for this row. Once you're done with that, we're going to chain two, one, two, and flip your crochet work. We will start a second row by making two double crochet in the first ditch. We're going to yarn over, insert your hook in the first ditch, yarn over and pull it through. Y over, pull through the first tloops and yarn over, pull through the last tloops. Another double crochet in the same stitch. Y over, insert your hook in the same stitch. Y over and pull it through. Y over, pull through Tulops and yarn over, pull through Tulops. In the next stitch, I will make two travel crochet. This is my first travel crochet. Y over twice, insert your hook in the next stitch and over. Pull it through. Yarn over, push through the first two loops. Y over push through two loops, and yarn over, pull through the last two loops. And this is the second trouble crochet, also in the same stitch. Y over twice. Insert your hook in the same stitch, yarn over, pull it through. Y over push through two loops. Yarn over, pull through tu loops, and yarn over, pull through the last two loops. Another two trouble crochet in the next stitch. Y over twice. Insert your hook in the next stitch. And yarn over, pull it through. Yarn over, pull through the first tloops, yarn over, pull through tloops and yarn over, pull through the last tulops. Now I'm making the second trable crochet also in the same stage. In the next stage, I will make two trouble crochet as well. That's my first travel crochet, and I'm making the second travel crochet also in the same stitch. And in the last ditch of this row, I will make two double crochet. This is my first double crochet, and I'm making the second double crochet also in the same stitch. To begin the third row, chain one, and then flip your crochet work. We will start with a single crochet in the first stitch. Two double crochet in the next stitch. This is my first double crochet, and I'm making the second double crochet also in the same stitch. Two trouble crochet and a double crochet in the next stitch. That's my first trouble crochet, and I'm making the second trouble crochet now. And last one, a double crochet also in the same stage. A double crochet and two trouble crochet in the next stage. We will start with double crochet. That's my double crochet, and I'm making the first travel crochet in the same stitch. And this is the second travel crochet also in the same stitch. In the next stitch, I will make one trouble crochet and two double crochet. That is my travel crochet, and I'm making the first double crochet also in the same stitch. And now I'm making second double crochet also in the same stage. Two travel crochet and a double crochet in the next stage. That is my first travel crochet, and I'm making the second one now. And a double crochet in the same stitch. Next, a double crochet and two trable crochet in the next stitch. That is my double crochet, and I'm making my first travele crochet also in the same stitch. And this is the second travele crochet also in the same stage. In the next stitch, I will make two double crochet and a treble crochet. This is my first double crochet, and I'm making the second double crochet in the same stage. And this is a trouble crochet also in the same stage. A treble crochet and a double crochet in the next stitche. That's my trouble crochet, and I'm making a double crochet in the same stitch. In the last stage, I will make a single crochet and I will slip stitch also in the same stitch. So that's my single crochet, and I will slip stitch in the same stitch. And just like in the first petal, we will connect this stitch back to the first row. Chain two, then slip stitch into the last travel crochet you made in row one. Chain three, one, two, three, and slip stitch into the magic ring. And that's it. The second petal is done. Let's begin the third petal with three chains, and then just follow the same steps as the previous two petals. I will fast forward the video and come back once I finish with the third petal. And I'm almost done with my third petal. Now I'm making three chains and slip stitching into the magic ring to finish it off. Now grab the tail and slowly pull it tight. This will close up the center of your magic ring nicely. And that's it. Your crochet flower is all done. And here's the comparison between the flowers made with crochet tread number 80 and number 40. 5. Lesson 4 : cutting the pattern: Using the pattern template, we will cut out the whale's body. You can use cutting machine to cut out the whales template or just trace the pattern on your felt and cut with scissors. You will need cricket fabric mat and a rotary blade to cut the felt fabric. In a new cricket design space Canvas, upload the SVG whales pattern file and ungroup them. You will need to cut out two whale body shapes, one for the front and one for the back. And these two pairs of fins. This piece is the lower part of the whale's body, which will be attached to the main body. All set to cut, click make, and you will see two different cutting mats on the next screen. I will change the matrial size to 30.5 by 30.5 CM. Do the same thing for the second mat. Move the design elements towards the center of the mat and leave some space between each one. For the material, choose felt acrylic fabric. If the option is not in the main window, click Browse Material and Type felt. There are several types of felt materials available. Choose the one that you're using. On the next screen, for the pressure setting, you can go for default. Next, I will insert my rotary blade in Clam B. Place your felt on the mat, load it into the machine, and then start to cut. There you have it. The pattern is nicely cut by the machine. If you don't have cutting machine, print out the printable PDF, cut out the pattern and trace them on the felt fabric one by one. Using a fabric marker, I will trace the pattern onto the felt. This marker will fade away on their own after a few hours. Gather all the felt parts together. You will have two body parts, four fins, and one lower body part. Don't forget your crochet flowers. Now we are ready to sew everything together. 6. Lesson 5 : adding details on to the fin: I'll add some detail to the fin by adding back stitches along it. Here, I'm using chalk pencil and lightly draw tree lines like this. Use only tskin of embroidery thread. Place the two fin pieces together. And now I will sew back stitches along the lines that I previously made. I will do the same thing on the second line. And lastly, I will add back stitches on the third line as well. And now I will secure the stitches with knots at the back. And these are the final fin after I added back stitches. 7. Lesson 6 : attach the fin: Next, we're going to sew the lower body piece onto the whale's main body. Prepare the wheel's main body and the bottom part, and we will sew the fin on top. The other fin will be placed below and we will sew it later on. Pin the main and lower whale's body together. Using blanket stitch, we're going to sew this lower body part. Using six strands of the MC embroidery thread, bring your needle up from the back of the whale's body, insert your needle through the lower body part and pull the thread, but do not tighten it completely. Bring the needle up through the loop and pull it through. Place the fin on top and sew them together. I will stitch along the running stitch that I previously made on it. I'm not going to trim the access tread, as I will use it to sew the two whale body pieces together. In the next video, we will add embllishment onto the whale's body. 8. Lesson 7 : adding embellishment: Next step is the fun part. We'll be adding embllishment, as well as the crochet flower onto the whale's body. Take your crochet flour and place it on top of the fin, then sew it in place. Take your seed bits. I'm using round the whole bits size eight, and I will place the bid and sew it onto the center of the flour. Run the thread through the bits several times to ensure they are tightly secured. And I'm just going to tie a few knots to secure it in place. Next, I will sew the rest of the crochet flowers, which are the crochet puff flowers onto the whale's body. I will take the same seed beads, the bits that I use for the first crochet flower, place it on the center of the puff flower and sew it on. And I will secure it with few knots on the back of the whale's body. Other than crochet flour, I will also add some sequins and bits on the whale's body. This is a four millimeter silver flat sequence, but you can use any sequence you have on hand. So each sequin onto the whale's body individually. Once you're done adding the embllishment, we will stitch the two body pieces together. I 9. Lesson 8 : stitching the whale's body: Now we are ready to assemble the wheel and stitch them together. Place the two felt pieces together and make sure all edges are aligned neatly. Using the excess trout from solving the fin, start stitching the two body pieces together. Insert the needle from the inside of the two layers between the felt pieces and bring it out to the edge. Now we're going to insert the needle through the two body pieces, pull the needle through, but before the tread tightens completely, insert the needle back to the loop and pull it. Continue making blanket stitches evenly spaced all around the edge. Now I will grab my polyester fiber fill and begin stuffing the wheel's tail section. Adjust the stuffing to make sure it's even, especially in small areas like the tail. I will continue sewing around the edges using blanket stitches, and at the same time, I will stuff the felt well as I go. Now I'm going to make a small loop where I will attach the kitchen. You can use the same colour felt or a ribbon, whichever you prefer. I saw the loop in between the two whale body pieces before closing it up. Next, I will insert the other fin, between the two body wheels and stitch them together. Don't forget to keep stuffing your wheel as you go. At the final bit of stuffing before making the last ditch, you want your wheel to look nice and fluffy. And there you have it. Your wheel is almost finished. We just need to attach a black bead for the eye, and then it's all done. 10. Lesson 9 : adding the eyes: Now we're going to add a black bead for the whale's eyes. This is a five millimeter black bead. You can use a fabric marker or chalk to likely mark where you want the eye to go. Inside the needle from the backside of the felt. Slide the black bead onto the needle and pull it down the track to the felt. Pass the needle back into the felt just beside the bed, angle the needle and push it through the edge of the whale's body. Repeat these steps two to three more times to make sure the bead is tightly secured. To hide the remaining thread, I'm going to insert the needle between the felt layers and bring it out somewhere along the edge. And that's it. Your handmade back charm is all done. It is ready to hang on your back or give it as a gift. 11. Lesson 10 : personalised acrylic keychain with cutting machine: Have cutting machine, you can take your Bharm personalization to the next level. I cut out my daughter's name using permanent vinyl, and I will place it onto this acrylic blank. Measure the size of your acrylic blank. Mine is five CM. On new Cricket design space Canvas, click on the shape button and choose circle. I will change the size to five CM by five CM. Click the drop down arrow in the operation menu and choose guide. Now, any design I want to add must fit within the circle to make sure it stays neatly on the acrylic blank. You can choose any phone style you like, but since my acrylic blank is quite small, I will avoid curse phones with narrow strokes. To make sure the name is perfectly centered on my acrylic blank, I click the line button at the top and select Center. This helps position the text right in the middle. I will also add other design elements like this star shape and some circles to make it more fun and personalized. Once you're happy with your design, you're going to select all layers together and click attach. Click the mic button. On the next screen, I'm going to change the matrio size to 30.5 by 30.5 CM. After that, click Continue. Choose your matrio I'm using Adhesive foil. For the blade pressure, you can select default, but since I'm using an old blade that is not sharp enough, I will select more for the pressure. I'm using the cricket standard grip met. I place my adhesive foil on top and secure it with tip so it will not shift during cutting. And to cut this material, I'm using premium fine point blade. After cutting, go ahead and we the vinyl by removing the parts that you don't want in your vinyl design. Then to transfer the design onto the acrylic blank, I'm using this transfer tape. Carefully place the sticky side on top of your vinyl design, and then we're going to burnish it. Use a scraper to rub the transfer tape onto the vinyl. This helps the vinyl stick to the transfer tape. Now that your acrylic piece is done, we're going to attach it to the kitchen. And this is the final look of our wheel Bharm. I hope you enjoy making it as much as I did. If you try this project yourself, don't forget to share your creation with me. I would love to see them. Thank you so much for watching. See you next time.