Today’s Challenge –– Craft a Felt Penny Spell Packet for Healing or Good Fortune (or both!)

I was looking through some of my files and found one of my favorite spellcasting techniques — the Penny Spell Packet.  So fun and easy to make — they don’t take that long to put together and last for years.  Versatile too, you can carry them in your pocket, make a brooch out of them, slip them between the pillowcase and pillow and so much more.  Penny Spell Packets in the form I show here, track their history back to the 1800s, starting around the time of the Civil War. 

Thrifty homemakers would use scraps of wool or felted wool from old clothing, blankets, and hats to create designs for mats or rugs. Using coins as templates, they created circles and each piece was then stitched in blanket stitch fashion. (Thus, the name…