🧦 Felt Stocking Forest Friends by Design Works Crafts: Charming Holiday Decor! Review

Haven't even started this set yet but I'm very disappointed that this company packages their beads mixed with their sequins! A nightmare! Edited to add: After reopening the packaging and inspecting the parts, the parts are printed on paper to be cut out and placed on felt to cut out. A lot of work! Never buy or make another hosiery set from Design Works again! I will always buy Bucilla, a brand that knows how to print designs onto felt AND separate their beads and sequins. I do NOT recommend…

I have been making felt stocking sets for my family for 45 years and I have NEVER seen a set with such a bad design! The production took twice as long because all felt parts were not punched. Cutting out pieces of paper was fun at first! Embroidery thread was cheap and constantly tangled. I ran out of white, black, and cream threads before the kit was finished. The beading needle had no eye, and there was no blue felt for jewelry. Luckily I had extra supplies of stockings made in the past to…

Nice design, but not all felts are printed! What a pain in the ass! There is a print on the main stocking but not on the details. You should cut out the paper template, then pin (or trace around) onto the felt and then cut out. Why couldn't they print on all felts like other brands? Then, for details like placing sequins or adding overlays, you need to "transfer the details with tailor's charcoal or by piercing a hole in the pattern paper with a sharp pencil." This will be my eighth stocking…