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DIY Hand Stitching, part 2. Last week, I started a DIY Hand Stitching series and began with how to hand stitch your own handwriting. I stitched onto paper and showed a method for transferring the pattern by poking or drawing dots as a guide on the surface. The same technique can be used when stitching a simple pattern onto fabric but when you stitch more than one color or there's a lot of intersecting lines (like these), it's much easier to use a piece of tear away backing. I'll show you how-- it's really neat! You will need: Fabric (linen, muslin & thick cottons), Needle (i use a #5 Embroidery Needle), Embroidery Thread, Scissors, Pencil, Thumbtack or Piercing Tool, Masking Tape or Low-Tack Tape, Tear Away Backing (available at fabric & sewing stores), Emboidery Hoop (optional) 1> Cut a piece of tear away backing, a bit bigger than your pattern.

Tip: For your first time using tear away backing, try a simple silhouette like a heart or banana. 3> Tape your pattern smoothly onto the fabric. Loop and Nub Stitch Tutorial. Decorative Paper Lanterns. Free-printable1. DiY crafts, free sewing tutorials & kickass clothing patterns – WhatTheCraft.com. How to transfer a photo to fabric. Did you know you can transfer photos to fabric without using iron-on sheets? I love this technique. It's simple to execute and the end results are really pretty. It's another method for hand printing!

I made some fabrics the other day and used them to add pockets to one of my wool skirts. Supplies Needed: Fabric (I used white quilting cotton), Gel Medium (I used this kind from Liquidex ), Paint Brush and the image you want to transfer. How to transfer a photo to fabric: 1. Note: Don't be alarmed if your transfer isn't completely perfect. Well there you go!

Felt Flowers. Annie's Catalog - Crochet, Knitting, Quilting, Sewing, Card making, Beading & Crafts. Kumihimo Braiding Kit | Round Kumihimo Disk & Satin Rattail Cord | ConsumerCrafts. Page corner bookmarks | I Could Make That. This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM. I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks. Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Placeholders special enough for the books that are special enough to remain in your culled-out-of-spacial-necessity collection. Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks.

If you like this tutorial, here are a couple others that might be up your alley. For the monster-loving adults in the room, try some googly-eyed paper monster wine charms. What you’ll need: Putting it all together: 1) Follow steps 2 and 3 from above. 3d video showing how to fold an origami peace crane. Straight Bar Lacing. Lacing Shoes. Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? This section presents some of the many fascinating ways of lacing, either for different functions or just for appearances.

Why not take the plunge? Whip out those laces and re-do them to suit your needs or personality. Table of Contents Shoe Lacing Methods This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 50 shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of.

Bi-Color Lacing Methods Lacing shoes with two different colors is a great way to display country or team colors or simply to make use of the spare shoelaces that are supplied with many sneakers nowadays. Lug Lacing Methods Many shoes, sneakers and boots come with lugs instead of eyelets. Create-a-Lace Experimenting with shoe lacing methods on a real shoe can be tedious. 2 Trillion Lacing Methods? Shoe Lacing Ratings. How to cut glass. I posted a picture about 1 week ago on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter of me cutting glass using just string. I got LOT’S of requests for a tutorial on how I DID THIS! So here it is. FINALLY! You will be able to learn how to cut glass. I want to warn you. It’s best to triple your yarn because it will burn longer! Soak it GOOD! I like to tie my yarn where I want my glass to “cut” then quickly pour polish remover over the string again.

Get a big bowl with ice and water ready. VERY IMPORTANT! Slowly turn your bottle. You can’t let the flame go OUT then dunk it in the ice water. YAY!!! I reallly hope you enjoyed this tutorial because I had ALOT of requests for it! © Copyright jaderbombllc, All rights Reserved. Easy, CHEAP DIY Canvas project. Little guiding stars. Since the new year has started I’ve been trying to think of ways to be more kind to my self.

Especially when that nasty gremlins try to creep in and stump me. I remembered this origami star video on You Tube and had to get them involved in my plan. I thought it would be fun to make a whole bunch with kind words and “you are….” phrases inside. I made 60 of them, enough to last me the whole year if I open one a week, plus a few extra just in case. I used 12 x 12 inch scrapbook paper and cut 1/2 x 12″ strips, then followed the video HERE*.

*UPDATE! Be Sociable, Share! How to Make Cherry Blossom Lights. Diy scratch off cards. Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. DiY crafts, free sewing tutorials & kickass clothing patterns – WhatTheCraft.com. Soap Making Instructions | Soap Making Recipes and Tutorials | Teach Soap. DIY Faux Curled Rosewood Wreath {Made From Rolled Recycled Book Pages} I have seen various versions of Faux Rosewood Wreaths in just about every store and catalog for the upcoming season; most with a price tag running upwards of $40 or more. Some are crafted of paper and other of real wood shavings.

Last year I made a few rolled flower gift toppers from recycled book pages and they remind me so much of the curled wood roses I thought they would make a good substitute. {with a much lower price tag} Materials Needed:Foam Wreath FormRecycled Book PagesLots of Hot GlueRibbon to Hang The full step by step tutorial I posted last year can be found {here}.Basically you layer three book pages together and draw a spiral circle. Starting with the outside of the spiral, roll the paper inward to create the flower shape. Give the wreath form a light coat of white {or light color} spray paint to help camouflage any see-through spaces.

It seriously takes quite a few roses to fill the entire wreath, however I think the finished project has such a unique look. {Simply Lovely} Always Chrysti - Always Chrysti - 100+ Ways to Creatively Reuse Old Magazines. Magnetic Spice Storage: Weekend Project. Today we wanted to share a cute idea for organizing your kitchen spices. With every new recipe we end up collecting a new spice or two. Having all these options available is perfect for adventurous cooking but it can leave your kitchen cabinets looking cluttered! We decided to make our new spice storage magnetic so it could adhere to the side of a refrigerator, and we found these cute clear containers so you can easily see how much of each spice you have on hand. Here's a before + after comparison. They're easier to store and easier on the eyes! Step 1: Trace your container (we got ours here) onto a sheet of magnetic paper.

DIY: Tribal print iPhone case ✪ DIY: Tribal print iPhone case ✪ Are you seeing lots of this type of pattern lately? It's either called the Aztec print or the tribal print! It's the one of the 'It' trends this season since it's the perfect mix of color and fun which is perfect for the summer! (especially here in Manila!) I wanted a hint of this awesome print with me everywhere, so what better way to do that, is to place it in your very own iPhone case! Le inspiration which costs $40 each! What you'll need: Look for your colored permanent markers coz they're the only thing that'll put your patterns to life! A matte white iPhone case (or a blackberry case if you're on BBM) Any type of ruler.

How did I do it? Don't be scared to start it! Think of any design and be creative with it! Overwhelming but as you move on to the middle part, sometimes you just run out of ideas of what to do next! Remember, for this DIY, the more the details, the better! You'll need a lot.. I assure you that when it's done, you'll love the result! Spread the love: heart pattern friendship bracelets « la manufacture. Growing up, I spent countless hours making colorful friendship bracelets. Their resurgence prompted me to rediscover this summer pastime. Here are instructions for one of my favorite patterns – hearts! You will need embroidery thread in two colors. Measure the thread using twice the length of your arm (from your fingertips to your shoulder and then back to your fingertips) for each string. Cut it. Do this two times for each color, fold them in half and knot them to form a loop. You should have a total of eight strings to work with, four of each color.

The basics: Hold the second string with your left hand as you use your right hand to take the first string over and then under the second string. Hold the seventh string with your right hand as you use your left hand to take the eighth string over and then under the seventh string. The pattern: 1: Lay your strings out as shown. 2: Make your first row by following the instructions for making a row of knots going right and then left. The DIY: PERFECT CHEVRON. The chevron pattern is everywhere, and we LOVE it. We basically want to decorate our entire house in chevron, so we started with this project. There are zillions of tutorials for different ways to make the tutorial pattern, but we came up with our own. Hopefully you will find this tutorial helpful in creating the perfect chevron pattern. You will need: A blank surface (we used an 16"x 20" canvas), a ruler, a pencil, painter's tape, x-acto knife, and one spray paint color.

For the first few pictures we will be using a diagram we created as the real dots were not dark enough to see through the camera. Next, create dots with your pencil. On each edge of our canvas we placed 5 dots, equally spaced. In the next step, line up a ruler diagonally with the dots. Next you will connect the dots in the chevron shape like the picture above. When you are done drawing lines it should look something like this. In this part we took an x-acto knife and made the edges straighter. P.S. Friendship Bracelets. Macraméd friendship bracelets were all the rage when I was growing up in the eighties. All the girls at my school would obsessively make them for one another in a dizzying variety of colors, widths, and patterns.

It's amazing, thinking back, that such young girls could make such beautifully intricate accessories. I, of course, tried my hand at making them as well. I would ride my bike down to the five-and-dime store and pick out the most sophisticated color combinations of embroidery floss I could find, but when it came to the actual macramé I never got beyond plain stripes. There was nothing wrong with plain stripes, except that the other girls seemed so much more advanced with their diamonds and chevrons. A bit intimidated, I never did become a big friendship bracelet expert. Fast forward 20 years: Purl Soho started carrying DMC Cotton Embroidery Floss in every conceivable color (including fluorescents!

Materials Beginning To begin, pick out your colors. The Left Knot Right Knot Ending 1. MAKE IT: DIY Glitter Mason Jar + A Tip for Making the Glitter Stay Put! | By DIY Bloggista Allison. For ages, people have been entranced by two things: glitter, and mason jars. Pictures of mason jars, pictures of glitter… even pictures of mason jars holding glitter inside, as if to *store* it in some way… pictures like this can be found readily across the internets – all of them, all the internets, even the ones women invented, silly New York Times article – and these pictures? They are being pinned every. single. DAAYYY. However in more recent times, these same entranced people have been haunted by a certain burning question: “… but– how do I get the glitter on the OUTSIDE of the jar?” Well today, ladies and germs… today is the luckiest day of your motherloving lives, if you’ve been asking that burning question.

But it’s also the lucky day of anyone who just likes looking at pretty things. Take it away, Allison… Allison here! Supplies Needed: 1. Start by painting the entire area with glue. Pou glitter over the mason jar and roll it around in a pile of glitter. And there you have it! Quick craft // DIY galaxy envelopes. Galaxy DIY’s are everywhere at the moment and it’s easy to apply this theme to lots of paper-craft projects. All you need is an old astronomy magazine (they contain page after page of mind-blowing images that you can cut out)! I made some envelopes (and some geometric wall-art….coming soon)! There are a gazillion envelope templates on the web that you can use (or you could use my string-tied envelope template). You could also make some galaxy gift-tags/ribbon or some 3d galaxy geometric shapes. Do leave a comment if you have any more ideas ^_^ Oh, and the font in the top image is called Later On and it’s free! Free Sewing Patterns and Sewing Machine Help at AllCrafts!

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