How to…Make Your Own Fabric Bouquet · How To... Photography Credit: Kristin Rogers Photography The eagle-eyed amongst you may recognise the above image from Nicole & Aaron’s ‘Just Married’ Session that I blogged back in February. As I was blogging it, I fell a little bit in love with Nicole’s handmade fabric flower bouquet so I thought I’d try my luck and ask her if she’d be willing to share how to made it with my readers. Luckily for me (and you!) Nicole was more than happy and excited to share her tutorial with us. Enjoy this guys and as always, if you make this yourself I want to see pictures! Nicole has her own blog, Knitcole, so if you are interested in seeing more of her work then be sure to go check it out. I am so excited to share this sweet little bouquet tutorial with all of you! First, get all of your supplies ready. 1. For this tutorial I decided to make my bouquet nautical themed so I choose a lot of red, blue, white and yellow fabrics and found buttons and some gold rope that made perfect embellishments. 1. 1. 1.
Yo Yo Pillow / Pillows. The fabric yo-yo has been around for nearly 100 years and were quite popular with quilt makers in the 1920s. Yo-yos have remained a favorite embellishment in the sewing and quilting all these years due in part to the portability of the project, as well as the instant gratification they provide since they stitch up so quickly. This pillow project is far from your granny’s yo-yos. Instead, I’ve given the yo-yos a modern twist as I’ve assembled them with brightly colored fabric and embellished the centers with stacked buttons and craft pompoms. It’s a project that’s fairly easy, with minor challenges trying to keep the yo-yos in a grid pattern while hand-stitching them to the pillow fabric, but the reward of the finished product is so very worth the effort.
Let’s get started making some yo-yos before we talk about assembling your pillow! First you’ll need to gather your supplies. For the pillow shown you’ll need to trace and cut 25 circles of fabric. Repeat going vertically. YoYo_Tree. DONNA'S - In The Attic: ~ MORE YO-YO PROJECTS AND HELPFUL INFORMATION ! ~ I received the following email from Dawn at www.dawnsdaybreak.blogspot.com. This is what she had to say ! This is what I am posting on my blog tomorrow for an update on my yo yo projects. Donna of Donna's In the Attic is hosting a yo-yo challenge. It's taken me a while to get what little I have done completed. While ideally I would have liked to make a yo yo quilt I knew that wasn't in the cards.
I found directions for making these angels while searching for something to do with my yo yo maker. Before I made the angels I made some flowers. I do love making the flowers. Take care, Dawn ~ Didn't Dawn do a fantastic job! Thank you so much for letting me share them with my readers! I also wanted to share a couple of helpful comments that were made on two of my Posts on making yo-yo's ! Jeanette at www.scrapnchick-keepmeinstitches.blogspot.com gave these hints ! ~ ~ Jeanette is not to late and nether are you. . ~ donna ~ Lazy Girl | Blog » How To Make A Perfect Yo-Yo Every Time. Lazies, It’s easy to make perfect yo-yo’s for your next sewing or quilting project. You know I love yo-yo’s. So, while I was making some recently, I put together a tutorial. Here is a step-by-step tour of using the Clover Yo-Yo Maker tools. To print this tutorial, click ‘print this Lazy post’ at the end of this post.
Subscribe to our blog so you don’t miss a juicy morsel. Yo-Yo Maker: Each Clover Yo-Yo Maker has two parts: a disk, shown in dark yellow to the left, and a tray, shown in light yellow to the right. Details: 1. Cut a piece of fabric slightly larger than the disk. These little crescent shaped openings (circled above) on the tray are the stitch guides. Fold the fabric seam allowance over the disk and pinch with your finger and thumb to secure for stitching. - With a needle and thread (knot the end or leave a tail) stitch from the disk side, through the folded seam allowance, finding the opening of the crescent on the tray and pull needle/thread through.
Making Yo-Yos. How to Make a Yo-Yo. How To Make Pom Poms and Add Them to a Throw Blanket. Before I started moving my studioffice all around last week, I started making something to keep me warm as it is COLD!!! Outside and I like it warm. This past weekend it snowed, which made for a nice snow day on Saturday, but the throw blanket I keep in my living room to snuggle up with has not been available for about 2 months now. You will find out why below. I needed to finish up embellishing a new throw I bought at Marshall’s to keep me all comfy cozy. It is large, furry, fuchsia, soft and super cuddly – perfect for the winter months, plus it gives my room an added color pop. When I bought it, it had plain edges, but I knew I would be adding big pom poms to embellish it and make it my own. This project all started when a certain new member of my household took over my warm and snuggly leopard throw.
Sometimes I don’t even see her as she blends right in. From woman’s Day Magazine Jan 1968 How to Make a Pom Pom Throw Blanket How to Make a Pom Pom I used 4 different colors of yarn. 1. 2.