{"id":7009,"date":"2010-06-01T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:08:26","slug":"felt-magnet-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7009","title":{"rendered":"Felt Magnet Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fishmagnets-149x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Magnets\" title=\"Fish Magnets\" width=\"149\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Molly of The Purl Bee made this cute &#8220;aquarium&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/purlbee.squarespace.com\/felt-aquarium-magnets\/\">bulletin board<\/a>, which would be great for a child&#8217;s room.*<\/p>\n<p>Something a bit darker would also be a great gift for an older child or adult.  Instead of starfish and seaweed, you could populate your &#8220;aquarium&#8221; with sharks, piranha, and electric eels.  Or, instead of an aquarium, choose a darker-colored board and make a graveyard with little felt tombstones, skulls, and fluttering bats.  If you&#8217;re feeling particularly ambitious, a set of magnets that can be arranged into a skeleton (skull, ribcage, pelvis, armbones, etc.) would be a great project.<\/p>\n<p>Felt is fairly easy to work with because the edges don&#8217;t ravel.  You can cut small, intricate shapes without having to worry about finishing raw edges or turning tight corners.  Keep an eye for a theme that appeals to you, then search for patterns (or even clip art) that you can print and use as a cutting guide.  Add a bit of simple embroidery (Molly&#8217;s tutorial is a great guide to embellishing the shapes) and you can turn out nice-looking felt objects without too much effort.<\/p>\n<p>You can also decorate the magnetic board itself using paint or thin contact paper cut into various shapes.  A flock of magnetic bats flitting out of a gothic-looking window would be <em>much<\/em> more fun to hang dental appointments and reminders to call the plumber than a boring old corkboard.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*With the important caveat that the child is old enough to know not to swallow magnets.  Strong magnets can cause internal injury if swallowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly of The Purl Bee made this cute &#8220;aquarium&#8221; bulletin board, which would be great for a child&#8217;s room.* Something a bit darker would also be a great gift for an older child or adult. Instead of starfish and seaweed, you could populate your &#8220;aquarium&#8221; with sharks, piranha, and electric eels. Or, instead of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens","category-doom-it-yourself","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}