Sewing Projects: Sewing Basics - Martha Stewart. Menswear Mouse Toy - Martha Stewart Pet Projects. Dinosaur Hoodie | DIYing to be Domestic. For my nephew’s first birthday I made him a dinosaur hoodie inspired by the tutorial found here. Rawr! I was a little nervous sewing with felt but the tutorial was super easy to follow.
I used a plain hoodie from Wal-Mart that cost about $8. (The hood lining was orange so that’s how I picked the color for the scales.) First, make triangles along the crease of your felt pieces. Then pin the pieces along the center line of the back of the hoodie and up the center of the hood. Hint: Don’t panic when disaster strikes. Now that the triangles are sewn to the hoodie, pin them together to make scales. Sew along the edges of the felt triangles to secure the scales in place. Lastly, prance around in your hoodie to make all your cousins jealous.
Like this: Like Loading... Vintage sheet cocktail napkins. Pin Cushion Ring: 5-Minute Project! Coupon Clutch Tutorial | Wedding Dress Blue. In a sudden burst of inspired energy, I spent part of the day Thursday working on this idea. Super-couponers might find this Coupon Clutch/Wallet/Carrier/Holder a little small, but for a moderate coupon user like me, it is just right.
Enjoy! Fabric Scraps, about 1/3-yard total Heavy weight fusible interfacing scrap 1/8-inch elastic (or hair elastic) Button thread 1. Pretend I was careful to show that there are really two of each cut of fabric and that there is a perfect button and a piece of elastic in the picture. :) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. I hope you will enjoy making your own Coupon Clutch. Like this: Like Loading... Dual-Duty Reversible Coasters by Tammy Hensley. A package arrived in the mail for us several weeks ago. In it were four lovely coasters from our friend, Tammy Hensley. You may remember Tammy from the Creative People We Love article we did about her back on November 9th. You might even recall a little photo we used of a set of her clever coasters. Little did we know we’d soon be the proud recipients of our very own ‘Dual Duty Coasters.’ Made from 6″ x 6″ squares (oh-oh-oh… scrap project!!)
You can order Tammy’s great Family Forever fabric that she used for our coaster set from her collections at Spoonflower. These coasters would make a great holiday gift, and because they use such a tiny bit of fabric, you may already have everything you need in your stash. Tammy created her tutorial as a .pdf file. The coasters Tammy made for us featured some of her beautiful handmade tatting around the edges.
Thanks for sharing, Tammy! TUTORIAL - mum clip V2. I have a few different versions of the original mum clip, I like them all so much I'm going to try to give a tutorial for each of them. Today you get The Mum Clip V2. :D The supplies are basically the same as last time: Old tee shirt scraps {or any fabric}Some Lace {I used an old curtain}Template {you have to make it yourself. Or you can try to find some clip art to use as a template.}SharpieHot glue gun and sticksSmall circle of felt.Hair Clip {or brooch.. whatever you want.}CREATIVITY.
You don't have to follow my exact directions. Do what you want, make it your own. First get your template and trace it onto your fabrics. {piles of 9 'flowers') Glue 8 of the 'flowers' into 'petals' like last time. Glue 4 'petals' onto the felt circle like so: Glue the next four over the 'cracks'. {does that make sense?} Create a center by rolling up one of the 'petals'. You're done! I'll be back with more tutorials soon! {if you really like this you'll follow me *wink wink*} Zip-up Earbuds. I love to have my music with me everywhere I go, but I hate the tangled mess my wires become when I toss them in my bag or pocket. Last night I whipped up a fun and functional solution by adding a zipper to my earbuds. This project took me around an hour to do (perfect for catching up on some t.v. from hulu.com).
The supplies are few; basic sewing supplies, a pair of headphones, and a nice long zipper. I happened to have this crazy purple and gold nike zipper I found thrifting a while ago, it seemed perfect for this project. The first step is to pull the earbuds apart, to separate the wires all the way down to the plug. Next, take one side of your headphones and one side of the zipper tape and start stitching the wire into the tape. Simply fold the outside edge of the tape under to the wrong side (enclosing the wire) and use a running stitch to hold it in place.
It’s as easy as that! Then unzip them to the length I want and put them on so much faster than having to untangle the mess! Sleeper of a Bag. Wanna make a monster? * UPDATE to this pattern! See below! * Time for another tutorial! I made this lineup of baby monsters for my Basic Amigurumi class at The Knitting Nest. Baby Monster's Guide to Basic Amigurumi You'll need the following stuff: Small amount of worsted weight yarnSize E Crochet hook (or your favorite)Plastic safety eyes (I used 6 mm, but you can use whatever makes your monster happy!) Head/Body: Begin by making a ring with your yarn as shown. Insert the hook into the front of the ring and hook your working yarn (the yarn coming from the the ball) with the hook. Wrap the working yarn around the hook from behind and pull through the loop on your hook. You will now single crochet six stitches into the ring. Pull the short yarn tail to close the ring and the stitches will come together to form a circle of stitches.
To make the circle grow, you will increase by crocheting two times into each stitch. Pull up a loop. Wrap the working yarn around your hook. Base: Tiny happy: shoulder bag tutorial. Here's a rough pattern and guide for making a shoulder bag like one of these, as promised. These are really easy to make, and I always have so much fun choosing fabrics and buttons for them. I have to warn you however that i'm not very good at explaining things in words, so I hope you can understand my general meaning in these directions! Please email me if you need further instruction, and I'll be happy to help! I couldn't work out how to do a PDF file so this is a very basic and d-i-y version of a pattern! Once you've drawn and cut out your pattern, cut two from your chosen bag fabric, and two from your lining fabric. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 9. 10. P.s. please email me a picture if you try this out because I'd love to see it! Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » sewing 101: making a pouf.
Our First Tutorial. Lots of firsts around here at Team Awesome this week! Be sure to check out our first giveaway and enter to win the adorable owl bag sewed by Alicia! Following a fun dandee tutorial, I created little memory games that we are storing in handmade drawstring bags. Since I was making up a few more for friends, I thought I would put together a tutorial for the lined drawstring bags. You'll need: two coordinating fabrics coordinating thread a drawstring And that's it! For this size bag, start with a 10" by 5" piece of your outside fabric. Stitch a 1/4" seam allowance along the ends of your outside fabric. Then, fold the whole piece in half, squaring the ends of the lining fabric (as best you can given your novice cutting skills) and pin together. Stitch the sides, skipping your marked gap. Do not stitch all the way across. Once you have finished that, it's a good idea to clip your corners. Flip your piece out, through the gap you left in the lining fabric.
And from the inside: Our First Tutorial. Travel Accessories: Cosmetics & Toiletries Case. I love travel size toiletries. I think this may date back to my days of playing with Barbie® dolls and trolls. Everything was so little and cute. In fact, most things are more adorable in a mini size: people, puppies, muffins... and little bottles of shampoo, deodorant and lotion. Our Travel Tidy Cosmetics and Toiletries bag is the perfect size to fit all those tiny bottles and jars and more.
This project falls into the 'intermediate' category, because it takes some futzing, twisting and turning to insert a zipper into a tube shape and to stitch the exterior and lining fabrics independently into boxed corners. We've used a similar zipper technique in several other Sew4Home projects, and these earlier tutorials have additional step-by-step photos, which may be useful if you are just starting out. Our Travel Accessories series is sponsored by Free Spirit Fabrics , as part of our Artist Trio Series introducing Anna Maria Horner 's amazing Loulouthi fabric collection.
Zipper foot Seam gauge. Michael Miller Fabrics' Citron-Gray Nursery: Tissue Box Cover. Crocodile tears, runny noses, spit ups and blow outs... there's almost never a time you don't need a tissue around the nursery. Why not let them pop out through a grommet on the top of our cute and clever tissue box cover? This fun project is one of eight pieces in our new nursery series sponsored by our good friends at Michael Miller Fabrics. We created the collection using their new Color Story concept, selecting the Citron-Gray Color Story for a modern baby boy nursery: happy yet soothing with bright, bold geometric shapes reminiscent of groovy sixties fashion.
This project can be finished with less than a yard of fabric and a few of your favorite scraps. We used the leftovers from all our Citron-Gray fabrics to create a pretty patchwork. Unlike most fabric collections that are filled with coordinated prints in multiple colorways, color is what this story is all about. Welcome to the Citron-Gray Color Story and our custom baby boy nursery.
Fat Quarter Shop Quilt Home Fabric Depot. ScrapBusters: Two-Handed Pot Holder. Today in our ScrapBusters Series, we're cooking up a great kitchen project. Hot pads are perfect for scraps because they are small, simple shapes that cry out for mixing and matching. We 'stretched' our possibilities by making a long, two-handed version. Kind of like those 'idiot mittens' you used to have as a kid; one mitten on the each end of a string running through the arms of your coat.
However, we didn't think 'idiot hot pads' sounded very good. I don't know about you, but I always set down my pot holders on opposite sides of the kitchen so when I need both to pull something out of the oven or off the stove, I never seem to have two within reach. We suggest you use a thermal batting, such as Insul-Bright to insure you can handle hot pots and pans without yelping.
As with yesterday's project, today's also uses the gorgeous Pretty Bird by Pillow & Maxfield for Michael Miller Fabrics. Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome DC5100) Assemble the mitts Assemble the front layers Tags: SHARK Hooded Towel Tutorial. Oh NO, little Bear those SHARKS are gonna EAT you! Giggle, Giggle, Giggle! Aren't they the cutest? Watch out swimmers...the SHARKS are gonna getcha! This tutorial is now available for purchase ($3) at HUGS~ Ya'll Jenni.
TUTORIAL - mum clip V2. Take A Second Look: Cozy Kid's Roll-Up Nap Blanket. It's been Spring Break around here, which meant we've seen a lot of folks on a lot of road trips. It reminded us how challenging it can sometimes be to travel with young kids, and so we thought this would be a good time to take a second look at a project we posted last October. This soft and sweet nap time pad, featuring its own built-in blanket, rolls up with a handle-tie strap.
It's the perfect portable snooze pad to toss in the car as you head off on vacation. Having a 'staycation' instead? No problem, roll it out at home or tote it to daycare. Soft flannel and cushy batting make for sweet daytime dreams wherever you go. The Wee Woodland flannels we chose are by Keiki for Moda Fabrics.
The amount of flannel listed below is actually enough to make two cuts from each fabric. We always recommend laundering to pre-shrink your fabric, but especially stress it when working with flannel. Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome Memory Craft 5200 ) 1 yard of 54" wide thick polar fleece: Take A Second Look: Bow Tie Pillows Protect Your Neck. This awesome pillow pattern debuted back in December 2009 and has maintained a consistent position on our list ever since. The bow tie shape is perfect for propping up your noggin while you watch TV or read in bed.
And, we've gotten a number of emails from S4H fans who've made them for older relatives who LOVE the little pillows as gentle support for their necks while they sleep. They're easy to create despite their complex-looking shape; you can make one in less than an hour with just a half yard of fabric. We've made dozens of these neck pillows as gifts, and I use one myself every night. If you like warm and cozy, use flannel or a super soft minky (check out the selection from our friends at Minky Delight ).
Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome DC2011 ) ½ yard of 45" wide fashion weight cotton fabric or cotton flannel. 2 feet of 7/8" satin or grosgrain ribbon per pillow. Bag of Poly-fil to stuff pillow All-purpose thread Scissors or rotary cutter and mat Hand sewing needle. "Stuff" Sack Tutorial. So…I’ve been taking my sweet time getting this tutorial together. I had planned to finish it two nights ago but then my book hit it’s stride and I couldn’t help myself. I just had to finish it. So you’re getting this a bit late, but who really cares right? :) This is a perfect little sack for all your “stuff.” It doesn’t have a real defined purpose. Before we proceed, I have to put a disclaimer on this tutorial.
I was just making this up as I went so I don’t have all the measurements recorded, but I can tell you how I got them; and it could definitely look more finished with matching thread and such, but I wasn’t even sure it was going to turn out this well, so I used what I had. :) I hope you like run-on sentences. Let’s get going. 1.
I used the lid of an empty paint can, traced it and then cut out two circles – one of each color. Diameter X pi = circumference …to get the length of the rectangle pieces. 2. I had two rectangle pieces so I had to sew both sides. 3. Turn it right side out.