Done. It’s 9:00pm. We have officially finished up our valentines-for-classmates preparations. Things I’m thinking: 1) I have a lot of children. 2) Those children have a lot of classmates. We used a clever idea I found on Kirtsy — via 24-7-365. To those who are up late making stuff: I salute you with my exacto knife. flower corsage for celebrating mom Being a mom sometimes isn’t the most glamorous job one can have. Being a mom sometimes means walking around with food or boogers on your shirt, and sometimes not getting into the shower till afternoon . we’re busy driving kids to school and activities, busy folding laundry, busy wiping away tears, busy reading bed time stories, busy making it all better, busy cooking meals, busy keeping house, busy cleaning toilets. Yes, not so glamorous indeed, but probably the most important. We are the ones who help mold, uplift, and carry our children when they need us to. No sewing involved, just hot glue and a few materials and you will be able to have this beautiful flower to put on your cardigan or to decorate your purse, so that you can remember how beautiful you really are…booger smeared shirt and all. supplies:one yard of satin ribbon (thicker size)one small circle of feltone pin for the backhot glue here's your petal. this is what you will do with all 12 petals. ENJOY your beautiful flower!
Paint chip greeting cards | Chica and Jo Like most of you, I’m sure, I tend to go through a lot of paint chips when trying to decide on a color to paint a room. And when the project is done, I toss the paint chips into a box I keep in my craft room. They are the perfect “I’ll use these one day” items, right? Well I stumbled upon the box a few days ago and realized just how many I’d collected over the years. Oh the memories this pile brings back! No matter how I got this collection, I knew it was time to finally do something with them. Can you believe those were made from plain white cardstock and boring old paint chips? First I cut some ordinary 8.5″ x 11″ white cardstock in half crosswise, then folded it. For the square mosaic design, I grabbed a bunch of smoky blue paint chips and cut them into 1 inch squares. For the green card, I cut all my green paint chips into strips of random widths. For the orange card, I took the same strip idea but turned it on an angle. I spent a lot of time on the final card.
Wristlet Sometimes you want to travel light – with just the essentials at hand. For this, you need: the wristlet. A tiny, tidy tote that hangs from your wrist. It's just 5" x 7", but holds all the necessities with room to spare. This is a perfect project to use up bits and pieces. Fabric scraps to work with the cutting dimensions shown below½ yard medium-weight fusible interfacing¼ yard light-weight fusible interfacing7" zipper¾" D ring¾" swivel clipAll purpose threadSee-through rulerFabric pencilScissors or rotary cutter and matIron and ironing boardStraight pins Based on the diagram above, cut all the pieces listed below. For the bag: A -- strap: 14" x 3" B -- strap tab: 3" x 3" C -- top front accent square: 2½" x 2½" D -- top front rectangle: 6½" x 2½" E -- bottom front: 8" x 4" F -- back: 8" x 6" For the lining: G -- back lining: 8" x 6" H -- front top lining: 8" x 2½" I -- front bottom lining: 8" x 4: From the medium-weight fusible interfacing: From the light-weight fusible interfacing: Top front panel
Surprise Balls This article is also posted at Squidoo! Inside this ball of yarn are all sorts of little goodies I chose for a friend. I wanted to send them to her in a way that’s entertaining, and since the gift will travel a long distance, I also had to come up with something that would take the abuse of going through the mail. My solution? First, I chose the items I wanted to send, inlcuding a printer’s block, some buttons, rhineston brads in a small watchmaker tin, and a bunch of ATC backgrounds. I usually choose to make the largest item in my pile of goodies the center of the ball, so here, I’m starting with the ATC backgrounds. Because this is going to a mixed media artist, I wanted to include lots of different fibers and trims. Next, I’ll add two shorter, thicker items, to pad the center out, and start turning this into more of a ball shape. On the other side, I wrapped the little tin of brads. By the time I have these two items securely wrapped, the ball is already taking shape.
Retro Fun: Vintage Style Apron This apron is another Sew4Home design original, complete with a free downloadable pattern. Love, love, love the sweetheart neckline and matching mini-sweet pockets. And the happy bottom flounce will have you skipping around your kitchen, just like when you used to twirl in your big-girl-fancy-party-dress... oh, don't even try to tell me you didn't do that! The Simply Sweet floral fabric has the perfect vintage feel, while the big polka dot accents add a modern zing. Clever knotted ties allow infinite adjustability for the neck and waist so you can make a Retro Fun: Vintage Style Apron for every shape and size of family member and friend. This project is a bit more advanced than many we offer here at Sew4Home, mainly because the whole darn thing is edged with mitered bias tape binding. A BIG thanks to our new friend, Barbara Jones, the designer of the beautiful Simply Sweet fabric collection for Henry Glass & Company. Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome 3160QDC) Pockets Tags:
Home made superhero fleece poncho-cape. These were one of the presents that I made for my girls this Christmas. They are pretty into the whole superhero thing. They have Batman and Superman PJs and wanted capes, so I thought it would be a nice idea if they had capes that could double up as cold weather ponchos. I used one yard of blue fleece for the superman poncho and one yard of black fleece for the Batman one. The fleece appliques on the backs were done by hand. Here's how I cut the shape of the cape to sew up. I cut out a smaller semi circle for the start of the neck part of the pattern. From here on out you get a faux tutorial using paper instead of the actual cape, because it was all done at stupid O'clock at night with pants lighting and I didn't think you'd be able to make out anything of the black and blue fleece. so here's the semi circle with the little semi circle cut out in paper. Sew up the shoulder seams and hem all around to give it a bit more structure and stop the bottom of the cape stretching over time.
"karikás" táska Tilda alapján: 40 x 50 két féle anyagból - 2x kiszabva színt színére fordítva, az egyik 50 cm-es részt végigvarrjuk. A rövidebb oldalakon kimérünk 20-20 cm-t, és a levarrt 50 cm-es oldal irányába levarrjuk. Felhajtjuk az anyagot a béléstől, majd összeillesszük a két lapot. Nagy lapostányér segítségével megrajzoljuk az íveket: a bélésanyagon helyet hagyunk a kifordításhoz, a külső textilen is megrajzoljuk az íveket, csak a már meglévő varrásig varrunk, a felesleget levágjuk, miután kifordítottuk és levasaltuk az éleket, a szélétől 5 cm-re húzunk egy segédvonalat, ami a karika bevarrásában segít, a karikákat én zippzárvarró-talppal varrom be. Használjátok egészséggel! Kodachrome Curtains - Updated! Now with lampy goodness! So, it's been a while since I've made anything Craftster-worthy, but my husband and I busted out the Dremel tool a few days ago and we made this: It's a pair of curtains made out of old Kodachrome slides! I'm really interested in photography, and will buy old cameras in antique and thrift stores in order to develop film that's inside of it. From time to time, I'll find collections of old slides and will buy those, too. I hate the idea that these pictures would just be resigned to the garbage or something, and wanted to display them (besides just scanning them in and putting them on Flickr - here's a link to my old found negative/slide collection, though, if you want to check that out: ). Travis has this neat drill press set up for the Dremel tool, so he taped a cardboard jig to it and started drilling all of the little holes. Then I connected them all together with chainmail rings. Each panel is made up of 114 slides.
Braided Rag Rug please click here for kits available to make this rag rug 1 honey bun of your choice (featured is “sweet” by urban chiks) and 4 yards of white fabric cut your 4 yards of white fabric to 1 1/2 inch widths (yup ALL of it) once it’s all cut up get three strips of fabric and sew them stacked on top of each other (i wanted the middle of my rug to be all white) safety pin your three sewn strips anywhere you can be comfy (you are going to be there for a while! start braiding your white fabric****EDITED**** ****you need to make sure your braiding is SUPER LOOSE. do notmake your braids tight at all. if they are tight they will make your rag rug curl up when you try to sew it together once you get close to the end of your braid you are going to fold over the end of your strip and snip with your scissors a slit. like so, and then you will do the same to the next strip that will be the following strip to lengthen your braid (do this to each of the three strips) look what you made!
d20 Handbag of Holding: How to build it By popular request following the d12 bag, here it is: the d20 bag! Now you can make your very own icosahedron. We’re making a pattern and kit for this project available in two sizes: darling and practical. There are a deceptively large number of parts to cut out, which is one of the main reasons that a kit makes sense here. Our kit includes twenty canvas pieces, twenty iron-on stiffener triangles, twenty cotton liner pieces, a cord for the handle, a zipper, and iron-on numbers 1-20 in the lovely font BPreplay. d20 bag instructions: If you’re using your own materials, the small pattern is available here (26 kB PDF) and the large pattern is available here (24 kB PDF). There are two sizes of iron-on stiffener panels: little ones (eight of these) and bigger ones (twelve of these). Arrange your numbers and fuse them under the iron for 5-8 seconds. The first set of pieces to sew together are the ten that form the band around the center of the bag. Follow the same pattern as for the bag body.
this house is way into barrettes. Thanks so much for the book love! I feel so supported and good about the whole thing. . .it's hard to put into words, except to say thank you. I am not really able to stay focused on any one big project right now (like the the quilt and blanket I have started and not finished for this baby) so, I jumped to something else and I tried my hand at some felt covered barrettes last week and these are quick and easy. They go together so fast, it won't make me crazy if we lose them. I had this bag of plain metal barrettes from the craft store lying around and I always meant to cover them in a clever way and never got around to it. 1. 2. 3. 4. They are quite popular around here.