DIY Vinyl Wall Art I live in an apartment and dig doing large-scale art. Apartments, however, are usually a pain to paint and then paint to cover-up your awesome paint, and an especially big pain when you move around as often as I do. I do like having bright, interesting spaces, so I was brainstorming on creating a large art piece that I could maybe mount on the wall, or other types of removable decor, and the universe smiled on my with inspiration from one of my favorite blogs: Nest did a neat post on using contact paper to make wall decals. With contact paper as my medium, a Tim Burton-esque / Tokyo Plastic vision of swirls, and a hot afternoon (or AC busted that weekend with temps in the 90s!) This is my very first instructable, and I hope you enjoy it. (Edit 1: Added pricing to supplies list. ) (Edit 2: Added bamboo close up images and peeling images.)
Pajama Eaters - Downloadable Pattern - Sew Fearless There are few new additions to our household. Each of these helpful and huggable creatures lives on a small bed, and has quite an appetite for clean-but-not-squeeky pajamas. We feed them every morning and they give back the jammies at night. Isn’t that nice of them? We call them our Pajama Eaters. Project Materials For this project you will need: 1 yard of fabric (42″ wide) for the monster’s body and limbsA fat quarter (18″ x 22″), or 1/2 yard cut of fabric for the mouth and pillow liningFabric scraps for applique eyes and for the soles of the feet9″ x 12″ sheet of white felt for teeth12″ zipper that matches the mouth fabricFiber-fillSewable iron-on adhesive like Heat ‘n’ Bond Lite for the eye appliquesmatching threadsThe Usual Sewing Implements – sewing machine, pins, hand sewing needle, scissors, etc I used quilter’s cotton to make the monsters pictured (except the hot pink material is corduroy). Download the Pattern and Directions This pattern has been moved to my pattern shop!
Eric Joyner DIY; Carpet Clutch Sometimes the best inspiration comes from those around you. I've been in a home redecorating mood lately. Getting ready for winter making our place cozy and warm and well lit to compensate for time change. This started with a good old fall cleaning and temporarily ended with the purchase of a new couch! A new couch which then brought on a spree of re-arranging, re-furnishing, shelf building, lamp hanging and so on. All of which has occupied the majority of my free time and creativity. Since then I've been in a bit of a creative lull, could be that all I want to do is hang out on my new couch but I've spent hours upon hours searching my favourite blogs (and new ones) for a good DIY idea and nothing has come to me. Materials needed: Piece of Carpet 1ft x 1ft' 3 inches Piece of material for lining Old belt or inch wide strip of leather 2 inches longer then carpet Jewellery making head pin, with decorative top Pins Thread Scissors Needle Nose pliers Speed-Sew glue, or other strong adhesive Xo Austere
AllFreeCrochet.com - Free Crochet Patterns, Crochet Projects, Tips, Video, How-To Crochet and More Walli The Whale {Tutorial} Meet Walli! She loves to splash around and have a blast! Okay enough with the rhymes. :) Here are the instructions to make this adorable whale, which can also be used multipurpose as a Pillow Pet! Please, don't redistribute or sell this pattern and/or items made from this pattern and tutorial. I reserve all rights to my patterns. After printing & cutting out your pattern pieces, you need to assemble them as illustrated above. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What child wouldn't want this adorable whale? Walli jumping over Baby Girl! This was probably the easiest stuffed animal I've made. Well, that's it.
PaperArtist_2014-01-11_22-43-41 Summer Dress- 3 hems Yet another Kitty dress tutorial! You know if I was able to do it, then it is super easy! Only 3 stitches needed, and minimal measuring! If you can sew a pillow- you can sew this :) First I found this fabric at Goodwill. Here are the very basic instructions. Yeah, not super detailed but there really isnt much to it! Extra tips: I guessed on the amount of fabric. The hem for the elastic- I folded over twice to make sure it would be secure and not unravel. Make sure your elastic is tight around your chest. You may not even need to hem the bottom. Of course I've got to give GmaV alot of the credit- she is the sewing master around here. Thanks to my new years resolution not to purchase clothes- I've been learning all kinds of dress tips and tricks!
Butterfly Sleeve Tunic (For Women & Girls) First of all…….let me tell you a story. I grew up in AZ. I guess that will stick with me forever because I still really stink at driving on the snow/ice. Here’s what happened to my poor victim of a car this morning. Sad day. image from my instagram account Poor car. Onto other things, how about that poll you guys have been voting on? Okay, whew…..onto the real post of the day. And this is something that’s for girls of all ages. This knit fabric top, has a very slight elastic empire line (which is optional), that cinches in…..giving the top more shape. It’s doesn’t have a lot of complicated pieces or need crazy sewing techniques. And the style of it is simple, cozy, and forgiving. With arms out, you can see……just two pieces. Believe it or not, Elli actually asked me to make this for her. If I still haven’t convinced you of its simplicity, take a look at it laying flat. And I’ll have to go and admit…….I’m bummed I used this fabric on Elli. Ready to make your own? Let’s get started… -Ashley
Plain Jane Canvas Shoes Restyle Hi, Skunkboy friends! I'm Jodie, crafter and stitcher of Lova Revolutionary and author of Happy Stitch. Summer time is just my favorite and I love a simple pair of canvas shoes to slip on for some quick outings to the park, to take to the beach, and to play with the pooch in! I picked up a pair recently but decided they needed a little something-something to make them extra cute. I thought I'd share this little restyle DIY with you, so you can stitch up a cute pair or perk up a pair you have already! Supplies: canvas shoes, several colors of embroidery floss, thick hand sewing needle, needle gripper (optional), pencil Step 1: Simply sketch out your design on your shoes with a regular pencil, careful to leave some space around the edge. Step 2: Begin filling in your design using some easy embroidery stitches. Step 3: When you are finished with each floss color, tie a knot on the inside to secure your thread. Stitch How-To: Thanks, Jodie, for this adorable DIY!
Beltmaking 101 Finally–the long-awaited beltmaking tutorial! way I make my fabric-covered belts has been learned from a mix of trial-and-error and vintage manuals. The supplies are simple, and making a simple pass-through belt is quite easy. Supplies: 1″ wide stiff belting (available at JoAnns), 1/4 yard fabric at least 45″ wide, buckle for 1″ belt (see sources at the end), pattern paper, thread, scissors, ruler, pins. Begin by measuring your waist and adding 6″ to 8″ inches to the length (I tend to err on the side of more, especially for a belt using a pronged buckle). Cut the belting the length of your waist plus the extra. Using the paper pattern, cut one layer of your fabric. Fold the fabric around the belting, wrong sides out. Gently work the seam to the center of the belting width, and press seam open. On the shaped end of the belting, stitch along the point being sure to backstitch at the beginning and end. Remove belting and turn the fabric right side out.
D.I.Y. | A summer clutch / Una pochette estiva | vannalisascafaria L’estate non è più un lontano miraggio. Finalmente sta per arrivare ed è divertente scovare qualcosa di nuovo da indossare. Quest’anno impazzano le pochette, clutch o borse a mano che dir si vogliano. Alcune hanno prezzi proibitivi e, francamente, spendere cifre da capogiro per una borsa (diciamocelo) non comodissima sarebbe pura follia. [ Summer is coming and it's funny looking for something new to wear. Io ho utilizzato una tovaglietta americana per la prima colazione in foglie di banano, due scampolini di tessuto di cotone da utilizzare come “soffietti” laterali, una vecchia cintura, colla a caldo e filo di cotone mouliné in tinta. [ I used a place mat made of palm leaves, two little fabric scraps as side strips, an old belt, a glue gun and mouliné cotton thread. Le misure dell’americana sono orientativamente di cm.50 x cm.30. [ Place mat's measures are approximately in. 19,69 x in.11,81. La pochette è stata pronta in un attimo! Condividi!
Revamp Old T-shirt Into Cute Bra Strap! Yay! I saw a lot of T-shirt yarn projects in the blog land recently, So, Why not? T-shirt yarn for bracelet and necklace are some really cute projects, But I prefer something more useful that I can wear everyday! So, this is what I made them into... A cute bra strap...So, fun especially during summer time! Jojo helps me with the photo shooting session... Screen down for the tutorial... Ooops...more photos...can't help it Jojo take more than 50 shots... This is a really easy DIY, just simple 4 steps... Step one : Use 3 strand of the T-shirt yarn to create this strap Slot in the bra clip ... Cut and tidy up the end of the strap, and secure them with few stitches or run a stitch using the sewing machine Tie a knot at the other end Make two piece of these and you are done!!! Visit again later... I'm going to show you how to make another sweet easy bra strap it's only in super simple 2 steps!!! Love PC * Jojo I'm featured!!!
Neon Tshirt Reconstruction I actually made this last summer, and just had never made a tutorial for it. I love this dress, it is sooooo bright!!! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Please excuse my lazy summer hair. Follow Can Can Dancer via Bloglovin for more DIY tutorials.