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Bike. Computers. POP Pilates: Intense Ab Workout! (Full 10 min) Make Your Own…….Shower Cleaner. Another great cleaning product recipe is here! This shower cleaner, smells great, works great, it’s cheap, environmentally friendly and non-toxic! Many people like the smell of clean house. Unfortunately, what they’re smelling is usually chemicals that linger in the air for days after and penetrate your skin and lungs. When you make your own cleaners, your house smells even better, and you’re smelling all natural essential oils, rather than toxic fumes.
Here is a quick demonstration to show how easy it is to make your own Shower Cleaner. Shower Cleaner 1 Cup Baking Soda 1/3 Cup Borax ½ Cup Liquid Soap (Dr. 2 Tbls Distilled Vinegar 1 Cup Warm Water 4 Drops Pine or Lemon Oil 1 Squeeze Bottle – I use a spray bottle in the video, but have since switched to a larger mouthed squeeze bottle. An empty, 32 oz., Dr. Here are a few side notes that I put in all my home cleaning product posts……. Why make your own home cleaning products? 1) It’s good for your health. 2. Make Your Own…….Liquid Dish Soap. If every household in the U.S. replaced just ONE 48 oz. bottle of petroleum-based liquid soap with a plant-derived product (i.e. homemade, 7th Generation, or Method), we could save 248,000 barrels of oil! That’s enough to heat and cool 14,300 U.S. homes for an entire year! I’ve thought about making my own cleaning products for a long time.
I bought the book, read up and still nothing. Why? Because I couldn’t visualize doing it. Now that I make my own products, the mystery is gone. I know it’s easy and I feel good doing it. I made this video demonstration to take the mystic away for you, and hopefully inspire you to do the same. I’ve tried a lot of recipes for dish soap, but this one is the best! 2 cups liquid castille soap (I like Dr. Here are a few side notes that I put in all my home cleaning product posts……. Why make your own home cleaning products? 1) It’s good for your health. 2. A few things to keep in mind when working with homemade cleaning products……. NABDAP_SkillsChecklists_2011.pdf (application/pdf Object) Day 22: Oversized Plaid. Make a Ruffly Umbrella. Home » $1 and Free, cheap crafts, Fashion, Headline, Tutorials 16 November 2009 44,380 views 23 Comments by Disney Thanks to Disney from Ruffles & Stuff!
If you aren't familiar with her awesome blog, you need to click over and check it out! She's super-creative and has an eye for making such pretty things. Hello everyone! I'm so excited that Heather invited me to do a guest post here at Dollar Store Crafts! Today I'm going to share with you this super-easy umbrella refashion that I did with a dollar store shower curtain liner! Materials: boring old umbrella (on hand)Dollar Store shower curtain liner (mine had several different shades to choose from!)
Cost Estimate: $1 1) First you want to measure all the way around the bottom of your umbrella, and double it for how much curtain liner you will need (plus extra for a flower, and top ruffles). 2) Then sew a straight stitch (on your machine's longest stitch length) down the middle of all the strips, and pull the bottom thread to gently gather. Fun! Ruffle Waist Skirt Refashion (and Tutorial!) I'm a little self-concious about the fact that I'm doing another skirt. How many skirts have I made?? Goodness! But I've always wanted to try the paper bag waist skirt, and as long as I'm making it, I may as well share it with my dear friends, right? So, this is pretty easy in concept. Shorten a long skirt and use the excess fabric to make a ruffle and a sash!
See? That is probably all the instructions many of you will need. I started with this vintage polka-dotted skirt that I've had for a while. (You can see that I got ahead of myself and whacked the bottom off before the photo...oops!) Just cut your skirt off an inch or two longer than you'd like it, fold the bottom over twice and hem.From the skirt's old hemline, cut a 2.5" strip that is twice the length of your skirt's waistband. You'll want to serge or zig-zag the raw edge of your strip to prevent fraying. Ruffle the serged edge by stitching with a long, straight stitch, then pulling one thread to gather. And there it is!
Love, -Disney. Recliner Slipcover Tutorial. I am SO happy with this chairs transformation. It brightens up the room, gives it the casual coastal look I am going for. To read the story of the chair go here. For my tutorial I am just going to explain how I changed the look of the chair but not really how to sew a slipcover because I am not an expert. Here's the before again. Here's my supplies.
I actually purchased 2-12'x15' drop cloths for this project but I only used about 2/3's of one. I told you my sewing machine was basic right? I wanted my lazyboy to not look like a "lazyboy" so I decided to just go for it. I decided I needed to make four slip covers. The back was by far the easiest part. The footrest I folded and pleated the fabric on the top were you could see it & used elastic along the bottom underside because the pleats hide any bunching.
Next I covered the seat cushion. The arms went pretty well. The inside part of the arms are attached to the inside of the chair with velcro. Remember what it looked like before? I love it. Jumper Refashion - A half-arsed tutorial. Yesterday I made a dress and some pants for Emma from a thrifted woolen jumper. It took me less time to make than it's taken me to put together this blog post. I never intended to write a tutorial (hence no before or during photos), but the re-fashion was relatively simple so I thought some of you may like to try it.
The instructions are a little bit half-arsed. Please forgive... Emma is a size 1-2 I used a lambswool jumper that had been machine washed in tepid water. Use a long but narrow zig zag stitch, this will give some stretch. no need to overlock as the felted wool wont fray. All seams are sewn with right sides facing each other. The black lines are the original jumper the orange lines are where you need to cut. To make the pants. Cut off the arms of the jumper, these will become the legs and the wrist cuffs will be the ankle cuffs. Sew the front of the crotch first from front waistband to groin. Fold over a waistband and sew to make a casing. I decided to keep the roll neck. Shirt to Blouse. A tutorial detailing my spur-of-the-moment sewing last week: You'll need a shirt, pins, a sewing machine and some elastic. 1 Cut the collar off. 2 Try it on. Pinch a pleat at the back so that the shoulder seams sit on your shoulders. Pin (you can do this by yourself, but it's tricky - estimate and lay the shirt flat to pin it neatly). 3 Push the fold flat and pin. 4 Put the shirt on again, mark with a pin, front and back, where you'd like the neckline to be. 5 Now it gets (only a little) tricky. 6 Fold the shirt in half and pin together. 7 Try it on again. 8 Fold neck edge inwards about 1cm, and stitch down all the way round. 9 Topstitch the pleats a short distance if it's unlikely that you'll ever iron this shirt. 10 Try on yet again, and mark the narrowest part of your back. 11 Sleeves: Turn shirt inside out. ** I found inspiration for this project at clevergirl, in her fabulous shirt refashion series.
Sarah at Welcome to the Good Life. WOO HOO! Call me a big nerd but my heart's pounding because i'm so excited and honored to be here!!! My name is Sarah and i keep a blog over at Welcome to the gOOd life. it's a diary written by me (and sometimes by my hilarious husband) of the good and the ugly as a wife, a stay at home mom, raising two kids under three-just a year apart, and also my weekly DIY sewing projects. so should we get on to my DIY project? Inspiration: squeezebox top from anthropologie picture from an anthropologie review blog. i think i literally gasped when i saw this top online. i instantly fell in love and knew i had to have it!
I bought 2 white shirts, one in xs which is my size and one in large. i got the large shirt in round neck for more fabric while i got the xs in a scoopneck. you'll need: 2 shirts scissors matching thread pins estimated time: 1-2 hrs. project cost: very reasonable(mine was $8 for both shirts) skill level: advanced beginner to intermediate 3. take one of the piece and begin making the pleates. 4. Ruffled Tote Tutorial by Blue Robin Cottage.
Hello to all you lovely and beautifully talented Ucreate readers! I am so thrilled and honored to be a creative guest on Ucreate and share my ruffled tote tutorial with you today! :) I'm Sierra from Blue Robin Cottage! I really discovered my love for creating things at a very early age. I think I might have been the only 2nd grader with a vintage inspired valentine's box complete with pearls, lace, glitter and elegant paper dollies. I started sewing about a year and a half ago and it was love at first sight! When I'm not crafting (which isn't very often) I enjoy the metropolitan atmosphere in DC with my two sweeties, antiquing or decorating my home. :) At the Blue Robin Cottage, I love to share all the fun craft and home decor projects I've been working on. Now onto the tutorial!
Here's what you'll need for this project: *1 Canvas tote bag: I found these at Walmart in a package of 3. . * Any embellishments you wish to add *Jean sewing machine needle Step 3: Its ruffle time! DIY Library Totes. Just say no to boring cardigans, part 2 — insatiable need. A few weeks ago, I saw a t-shirt refashion in a craft magazine, and was inspired to apply its techniques to a little red sweater that I’ve had forever, but is now tragically too small. Here’s the end result: The t-shirt refashion took two over-sized t-shirts and turned them into a single, shawl-front cardigan. I thought it might be cool to start with a fitted sweater instead of an over-sized shirt, and then the final product would be more fitted, too. Instead of 2 t-shirts, I used this old red sweater and a pair of knit pants in a black and white herringbone pattern. These two are relics from my black-and-white-and-red phase (many years ago, now), in which nearly everything I owned that wasn’t denim or black was bright red.
The sweater is way too small for me now, and the pants never quite fit right anyway. All you need for this refashion is a top you’re not wearing, and 2 rectangles of similar fabric…the whole project took me two hours, including pausing to take pictures! Lulu Bliss: Hello Again and a Refashioned Cashmere Sweater. OMG! Has it been almost two months since I have posted? Where has the time gone and what have I been up to? Geez! I don't have much of an excuse, but I have been concentrating a bit more on some freelance work.
I have always wanted to be the one that keeps a journal religiously, and can look back years later at all my oh so interesting entries. On that note, I do have something to share, that was quick, easy and fun. Since it was a tad small, I thought, why not make it into a open loose cardigan. Since I cut the center front of the sweater, I needed to finish off the edges somehow, otherwise the garment would start to unravel. Now what to do about the neck and closure of this cardigan... Here is a close-up of the shawl collar. WOOHOO!
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