Making Pocket Landscape Brooch with Olive-Green Felt and Colorful Seed Beads

“Three cute pine trees stand on a blooming hillside”, which is a perfect description of the handmade felt landscape. It often reminds me of Miyazaki Hayao’s animation movies. Follow the intructions below to make this exquisite felt brooch.

The necessities for felt landscape brooch:

Olive-green felt
Orange felt
White felt
Oragne sewing thread
White sewing thread
3mm Colorful seed beads
Brooch setting
Glue gun
Scissors
Needle
Chalk

Instructions on making felt landscape brooch:

Step 1: Prepare elements of landscape

1st, outline the disc setting on white felt, and tree&hill patterns on green and orange felts;
2nd, cut the elements out.

Step 2: Make the whole lanscape

1st, glue the green hill element onto one white felt;
2nd, sew green seed beads along the green edge;
3rd, glue orange hill element onto the white felt;
4th, sew brown seed beads along the orange edge;
5th, sew brown beads, resembling trees’ trunks;
6th, glue green tree elements above the trunks;
7th, sew colorful seed beads onto orange hill element, resembling the blooming flowers.

Step 3: Finish the felt landscape brooch

1st, cut blue felt into small pieces and spear them with needle, turning them into fluffy wool;
2nd, glue the blue wools onto felt landscape to imitate blue sky;
3rd, glue the other white felt onto brooch setting;
4th, glue the finished landscape felt onto above white felt.

The final look of felt landscape brooch is like this:

Tada! My felt landscape brooch is done. The project requires the esthetic knowledge: how to build a pretty lanscape with rich colors and organized structure. Therefore before making the felt landscape, you should draw its elements in proportion and apply appropriate color to each.