Aranzi Aronzo

This crafts book, which contains patterns on how to make adorable felt creatures such as matching bunnies, is basically the cutest thing ever. (Well, ok, I bet you noodled that out from reading the title, but still.) The only drawback is that if you don't know how to sew, you'll want to run out and learn immediately because the stuff in here is so goddamned adorable that you'll want all of it.

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Insanely cute. I have no strong desire to make show more mascots or anything really out of felt, but if I were going to it would be because of this. So cute, lalala, look at the adorable bunnies and such. The text amuses, even as it provides a little helpful instruction in sewing basics.

Squirrel's face, her personality, even her clothes are all cute. Her curly cute tail is key. So make her tail cute, okay? And make her stripes cute too, ok? Thanks

Then it gets weird, but still cute. Fish is mature and has sexy lips and an alluring gaze, and also flowers on the body. Bird is coquettish. Lizard should look calm. Then there's Bad Guy. "His smile is so creepy." Liar. Alien. Kidnapper, who looks like Slender Man, and has a bag to put kids in.

Strange and wonderful.

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Cute indeed!!! I am hoping to spend some of my free summer time doing a few projects from this book along with my daughters. This is a fun book! I would also add that all the projects are not dripping with honey, sweet. There are some critters in here, like the Alien, Liar, and Bad Guy, that would appeal to even the baddest of bad boys (while still maintaining a firm G-rating.)

After making more than half of the felties in Nelly Pailloux's Felties I started poking around for other similar books. I located this one, took a look at it at and purchased it. By now I had the basics down so was just looking for some new patterns.

I noticed a few strange and not very cute patterns (to me) but bought it anyways for some of the cute ones. The ones I thought were strange were things such as "Kidnapper", "Bad Guy", and "Liar", I think they are just the sense of humor of the show more creators and I don't really share that same sense of humor, I'm all about the cute not so much the weird. But no matter, the book had things such as "Striped Cat", "Frog", "White Sheep" and others to catch my fancy.

So far I've only made 5 from the 19 patterns ("Panda", "Monkey", "White Sheep", "Striped Cat", and "Frog"). A lot of the patterns are very similar with the bodies being exactly the same (arms, legs, and a dress) and only the heads being different. Eventually I think I will get to some of the others but they are so similar I haven't really felt the need to make them yet.

Compared to Felties, The Cute Book's directions are a little briefer but unlike Felties it has a whole section in the back about what you could do with the felties (or felt mascots as they are referred to in the book). Ideas include keychains, hair accessory, applique etc. Aranzi Aronzo also has several other books that branch off from this one that look to involve using a sewing machine so I've passed on those.

Overall another fun feltie book after almost exhausting Felties. Would definitely suggest Felties over this title though. show less