Diy: bird mobile. One of my very best friends is pregnant - someone with whom I went to preschool, Mother's Morning Out and Girl Scouts, and who I picked up every day for high school.
She and her husband live in Kentucky now, and they're decorating an adorable baby-girl nursery. Two years ago, I made a bunch of little birds to decorate our wedding reception, and I based the pattern on these beautiful birds that Jessica had made for me. I love it all: easter's on its way. Isn't that the cutest little banner?
I made it last year, before I was a blogger, and did not keep a source for it. Then, as I was reading Today's Creative Blog a week ago, she showed a picture of my inspiration piece. Whew, now I can give credit to Made for this adorable banner. You will notice that I did not sew around each felt bunny as she did. I tried, but they did not appear as perfect as hers, so I resorted to sewing a line through the ears onto my grosgrain ribbon.
If you are drooling over that little set up there, Gordon surprised me with the blue vase {from Tiffany} on our 3rd anniversary. Gordon designed and built the book shelves, added the fireplace, laid the tiles and regrouted twice. Okay, back to the reason for this post. Here you can see where I just sewed the bunny through the ears to the ribbon. Tutorial: Scrap Buster Fall Pillow. This is my favorite thing to do with my little scraps, and since its Scrap Buster month over at Sew, Mama, Sew, I made a quick tutorial so you can make your own.
This pillow cover is 16" square with an envelope back & the design possibilities are endless! Curious kangaroos. For the little ones, when it is all about color, sound and texture, you can easily make many different toys literally in minutes.
You will need a piece of fabric (length twice the width), some ribbons and some scrap fabrics to fill it. Additionally you can sew a bell inside or add a piece of a crinkly plastic bag for sound effects. 1. Fold the fabric in half (good side inside) and sew two sides together. You can already add some ribbons in this step. 2. 3. For additional colors and textures, you can connect several different fabrics to form the rectangular piece you start with. Fabric Basket. Thanks for those of you who asked for a tutorial on the fabric basket project I updated yesterday!
This is gonna be my second tutorial on my this blog. If anything isn't clear, feel free to leave me a comment and ask me for help. Remember that all seam allowances are 1/4" throughout the process, and seam allowances are included in all the fabric pieces used in this tutorial. ::Materials needed::Fabric: Natural Linen: 1/4 yard for Basket Exterior and Handles Pink Polka Dots Print: 1/8 yard for Basket Exterior Pink Geometric Print: 1/8 yard for Basket Exterior Flower Print: 1/8 yard for Basket Exterior Green Rabbit Print: 1/2 yard for LiningOther Materials: Fleece Batting: 1/2 yard First of all, cut out 2" squares from 3 different kinds of fabrics: 8 squares from each. (1/4" seam allowance is included, so your finished square will be a 1 1/2" square) Sew together two squares, making sure those two are different fabrics.
Reversible Patchwork Bag. Something I've wanted to do really bad...
A new sewing tutorial!! It really makes me happy that you guys enjoyed my sewing tutorialsand made beautiful fabric baskets, camera cases, and pen cases.My finding is that you like easy & quick projects like I do! How about this reversible patchwork bags that are easy and quickto make and can be lovely little handmade gifts? Cut out 32 of 2 1/2" squares. (I used 16 different kinds offabric, 2 squares from each different fabric) Arrange to make 2 sets of 16 x 16 top layers. Sew each row consisting of 4 squares. 4 rows completed! Press seams to one direction, making sure ones next to each otherare pressed to opposite directions. Now let's sew all the 4 rows together. Press seam open. Tutorial: Reversible Tissue Box Cover. Thanks so much for lots and lots of sweet commentsencouraging me to write up a tute for the tissue box coverand I'm sorry I couldn't catch up with you guys sooner.I had some other projects to wrap up and school keptme pretty busy for the past few weeks.
But here I am backwith the tutorial for a super easy + quick reversible tissue box cover! Hope you'll enjoy.... ;) ***Fabric Measurements for a tissue cover that willfit on a tissue box including Kleenex 200 ct. DIY. Trash to Couture original DIY tutorials Click on the links below the pictures to see the page.
Upcycling Shirts Tutorials. Day three: Shirt into Bracelet (There is an update about this post, on the bottom part of this page) Pictures by Lana ------------------------------------Update------------------------------------ Due to several questions about this tutorial, I decided to post an update with more detailed steps. Drab to fab! 5 DIY ideas for t-shirt remakes. Posted by ScrapHacker.com on tisdag, juni 5, 2012 · 5 Comments With temperatures rising so is the annual epidemic of fashion fever, making many of us feverishly hit the high street (although our wardrobes are already stuffed full…).
This post celebrates the power of re-invention of a wardrobe staple – old t-shirts. Infusing and old tee with some contemporary style means that fashion quick fix is waiting in the dusty corners of your wardrobe…When you’ve found yourself a remake candidate, get crafty asap! Here are 5 easy peasy drab-to-fab projects from the D.I.Y blogosphere to get your own ideas flowing – enjoy! D.I.Y from ‘Free People’, check out the full DIY TUTORIAL HERE Lauren of ‘Calico Skies’ has made a great screenprint tee, to make your own, check out the DIY TUTORIAL HERE. 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, T-shirt pom poms. Learn how to turn old t-shirts into pom poms! T-shirt Pom Poms are so much more durable than tissue paper ones. And I think they look loads better! Got an old tee or two {or 20!}
Pillowcase-bag-DIY. Drab to fab! 5 DIY ideas for t-shirt remakes. Recycled glove chipmunk. The Forge: {she made it} jersey weave sweatshirt. Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag!
Tutorial time! I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed! As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter…
Simple Bow Tie Top. I'm so happy about how this turned out. This is one of those projects that's been on my to do list forever and now that I finally got it done, I wish I had done it a long time ago. Rick Rack Rosettes. A friend gave me this flower ring and necklace, when she handed them to me I thought they were porcelain–there’s a very vintage feel to them. Mizzie Modifies: DIY Fashion – Add Pockets To a Dress or Skirt. More Holiday DIY's for the Weekend. Ducklings In A Row - Hair + DIY Tutorials: I'm Inexplicably Drawn to You...DIY Magnetic Tote Bag. My husband and I are really bad at the diaper bag thing. My son has sat through more than one restaurant dinner in some state of undress, including wearing nothing but a diaper at his cousin's birthday dinner, because we inevitably leave the house without adequate diapers, wipes or a change of clothes.
Universalis : Ressource documentaire pour l'enseignement. Fabric flower ring. Here's the post i was too sick to do last week. i'm feeling better. thank you for your kind words. and no i didn't burn the toast on purpose, that actually happened (a few days earlier...i just thought it was funny and so i took a picture.) who knew that it was a perfect picture for how i would feel a few days later. but yes, a little better on the sickness...not all better. but good enough. ;) hope your weekend was nice a lovely.okay...now onto our regularly scheduled post: here's a perfect ring to give to a friend, mother, daughter, wife, or yourself.with a few and easy steps you can make this lovely little (okay kinda big) fabric flower ring for whoever you chose!
Supplies:*one strip of fabric measuring at 1 inch by 10 inches. DIY Tassel Charm Bracelet. Make no mistake, there are loads of tassel jewelry tutorials out there, like this bracelet or this one. (Seriously, just google "DIY tassel bracelet. ") DIY envelope clutch. (vintage romper, river island feather headband) Tote Craft - Making a Purse. Green...Easy Knit Produce Bag.
Green…can mean more than one thing. There is green the color. And green, as in environmentally friendly. No-Knit Scarf.