Embroidery 101: French Dot Constellation Runner. Hi!
Jessica of Miniature Rhino here. It’s been such a pleasure to create some projects for you for this Embroidery 101 series and hope you’ve found some inspiration or your next project. I wanted to end on a stellar note with one of my favorite subjects and stitches, stars and french knots. Trying to invoke the Spring to finally arrive I made this table runner of stitched spring constellations. Stargazers will find Ursa Major and Minor, Cygnus, Draco, Virgo, Orion, Gemini and lots more. I really hope you’ve enjoyed this series! Photography by Maxwell Tielman The full how-to continues after the jump! Materials: Constellation Template (download here) (2) 15 x 72” pieces of linen, washed and ironed (or a pre-made runner) Tape Scissors Sewing pins Saral transfer paper Self-healing mat Pen DMC embroidery thread 3866 4mm Flat Silver Sequins 6mm Flat Silver Sequins Size 7 embroidery needle Large embroidery hoop, 12” hoop shown Sewing thread Steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
DIY Anthropologie-inspired Bedside Tables. Five Most Common Embroidery Stitches. Three Ways to Transfer Embroidery Patterns. Transferring an Embroidery Design. Embroider a T-Shirt. Embroidery 101. Binders organized. How to make your own Planner. After the introduction to the why of my DIY planner I thought I’d continue today with the how to, a tutorial to inspire you and some facts on how I finally created my own Planner for 2011, in a format that I can continue to use for many years to come!
I created the layout of the weekly pages in Adobe InDesign, as well as a few other layouts for my planner, but I won’t go into that here. Update 2014: Buy iHanna’s Planner Pages here Since I have been thinking about this projects for months I knew what I wanted to end up with (finally!). You might have other prerequisites for your planner project, so go ahead and be inspired but make sure you get what you want from your personalized planner! This is what I wanted from my project; For the cover I bought a a plain yellow binder (with a cardboard cover) at the thrift shop. Finished cover size is 5.7 x 6.7 inches (14,5 x 17 centimeters), and the spine is as thick as 3,4 centimeters. Glitterlicious pink! Then punch holes in each page. Making Your Own DIY Day Planner.
A good planner is one that you enjoy and suits your needs.
Need a section for homeschool? How about a blog post section to keep track of you ideas for future posts and schedule them out, as well as all the regular weekly and monthly calendar sections. I am putting my own together and thought you might enjoy making use of all these free printables I am finding to put it together with. Adding in fun things like smaller tear out shopping lists, pretty scrap book paper, envelope or pocket pages etc.. add in what you can't just go buy at walmart. Make it yours! A variety of great homeschool planners can be found at this roundup of free homeschool planners here at re we there yet?
The homeschool one I used is a simplified planner with just the daily schedule, goals, a list for attendance and list for books read, and curriculum. Letterfolding. Craftgawker. Design*Sponge. Organized "Dream Home" Tour. Call me a bit crazy, but I decided it would be fun to create the ultimate organized dream home. Have you ever done anything so silly? I get asked a lot about where I find my inspiration, or where my crazy ideas come from. Well, typically, I sit and gaze at dreamy space, and then try my best to get creative and replicate them on my budget. Or take note of the space itself and ask, "What makes it so pleasing? " and "What makes it so functional? " So I thought it would be loads of fun {what better way to spend a quiet Friday morning?}
Individual cubbies for each person to stash their belongings would be so dreamy. Pom poms. Vintage-style book dustcovers. Looking at this picture, can you tell which of these books are actually hardbound?
I’m not super fussy over the books on my shelves, but I will admit that sometimes a really garish or unattractive book spine will jump out from the bunch and irritate me every time I walk by. I don’t think I would ever take the leap to cover all of my books, but I really like the idea of using these nifty deceptive hardbound dustcovers by Alex Cobbe to gussy up the real eyesores in my collection. Alex used a few inexpensive materials — construction paper, a ruler, a gold pen — to quickly turn her collection of paperbacks into a library of classics — even the Chuck Norris book looks like a masterpiece :) This would be a fun rainy day activity, and the possibilities for customizing this look are endless.
Thanks so much for sharing, Alex! — Kate Have a DIY project you’d like to share? Materials Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How to Army roll a t-shirt.