Pom pom plum pudding tutorial - Domesticali. Johnny has been more than a little obsessed with pom poms recently. His textiles teacher had the children making them old style - with little cardboard doughnuts, and he was so pleased with his. So a little project to make use of his poms seemed in order. A little plum pudding pom pom. To make one, you'll need a lovely brown pom pom - how you make it is up to you. Here's a tutorial for the 'wrapped round fingers' method and one for the 'classic cardboard doughnut' style.
When you tie the wool around the centre of your pom pom, leave a good long tail. We took a red button and a piece of white felt, cut freehand into a vaguely circular, wiggly edged shape. Using the long tail from your pom pom. sew up though the middle of your white felt shape and through the holes of the button, making a couple of passes to secure them well. Our plum puddings are going to be tied on to bags of Christmas cookies as teacher presents this year. Felt Christmas Tree. Felt Christmas Tree For The Kids To Decorate. How many times have you had to tell your toddlers to leave the Christmas tree ornaments alone? With this felt tree, they can decorate and redecorate until their hearts content. I have a friend that works from home who is always finding ways to keep her kids busy while she is working. She shared this idea with me, and I’m so glad that she did! My girls have had so much fun, and it is great way to involve the festivities of the season in a way mom doesn’t have to help.
Perfect for the “I can do it myself” age. Oh, and no mess! This tree can be done as simple or as fancy as you would like. Supplies: green and brown felt and a variety of other colorsscissorscookie cutterswhite or silver marker for candy cane stripeshot glue gun (optional) First cut out a large triangle for the tree. Trace different shapes of cookie cutters and cut them out. Simple right!? Happy tree trimming! *Aubrey* Initial Christmas decorations - Crafty Mums Outlet. Wings - Deconstructed. It is no secret that, even though I sew, I prefer to buy clothes for my kids. Lots of reasons: it saves time, they're rarely more expensive than raw fabric (I'm picky about my fabric), sewing in multiple sizes is boring, and I'd rather go to the park or sit with my husband at the end of the day or make cardboard stuff, really. Costumes, though, I prefer to sew. Lots of reasons: they're very expensive, the workmanship is shoddy, the fabric is scratchy or inappropriate in other ways, sometimes they're immodest, often they're only toddler-sized, and the fit is so poor that I can't even bear to look at the models in the photos, let alone my own children in them.
A couple of months ago, we were minding our own business in Target, and we saw a very cool costume. It was plasticky and stiff and expensive, but it was clever. And even though it was sized for someone half her age, Emily wanted it. They're wraparound skirts that unfold into wings that are hinged to open really wide like this -
Just Another Day in Paradise: Project Handmade Christmas Presents: Sugar Scrubs. The little handmade gifts are the easiest to put together, but sometimes the hardest to come up with. I especially struggle with what to make for the teachers in our lives. I want to make sure that it isn't a typical teacher gift. I try really hard to think of something that I would love if I were a teacher. Last year I did THIS. Since I can't give them a trip to Hawaii for rest and relaxation, I thought some relaxation and pampering for their busy hands would make an acceptable substitution. I knew I wanted to make some handmade sugar scrub this year.
I looked and looked all over the blogosphere for different recipes. So let's make some Lemon Sugar Scrub. What you need: 2 1/2 cups of white sugar 1 cup of olive oil 4 TBS of Lemon juice containers First mix the sugar and the oil in a bowl. Then you will add the lemon juice. Mix the scrub until everything is well combined.
Then using a spoon, divide your scrub into jars. Put the lids on. You can just leave them like this. Package. So happy.: So close! Advent sew-along: ornament templates. It's your lucky day, advent friends! A very generous reader, Julie, emailed me with advent ornament templates that she drew herself. Wasn't that nice? So instead of waiting around for me to get my ornaments going, you can all benefit from Julie's artistic talent. Thanks, Julie! She based many of her ornaments off the Inchmark Advent, and came up with several designs herself. Julie recommends saving the images and then importing them into a Microsoft Word document to print.
Set the layout of the page to landscape and then size the two JPEG images to 8.5 inches wide, and the ornaments should be just right to fit a 2.5 inch square pocket on the advent calendar. I am also making a few different ornaments, so I'll post templates for those when they are ready. Also, many of you asked how large to cut your tree. The beauty of sewing your own advent is your tree can be as big as you want, in whatever shape you want!
Cute Craft Tutorials, Handmade Toys, Printable Crafts, Kawaii Plush by Fantastic Toys: Felt Christmas Ornament Tutorial. My project is featured on Michaels website. Please rate my project to increase my chance at winning a chance to be on the Martha Stewart Show. Go here to rate this project on Michaels website. Your family and friends will love these vintage inspired felt ornaments. This is a great holiday craft project to make with left over felt scraps and trim. Materials RequiredCraft feltRibbon, ric-racCraft glueNeedle/ThreadPolyfill stuffingPins Leave a comment and email address to qualify for the free giveaway of the ornaments pictured. Please make these ornaments for family and friends. Download Christmas Ornament Pattern with Instructions. Чудеса в решете и всякая всячина! - Как я шила елочки - новые, с иголочки)))
Я уже начала готовиться к Новому году и прямо с утра села шить елки на елку. И подумала, что вам, наверно, будет интересно посмотреть, как я это делаю...Тем более, что возможность отснять процесс у меня бывает не так часто - по утрам я шью крайне редко) А вечером красиво что-то снять не получается.Так что, смотрите импровизированный мастер-класс на тему шитых елочных игрушек. Фото для первых стадий рисования шаблона и раскроя я не показываю, потому что мне кажется, что и так все понятно.А далее с фото Итак:Для работы нам понадобятся - зеленый фетр, обрезки зеленых тканюшек, немного бисера - белого, зеленого, красного (можно и золотого добавить по желанию, чтобы блестело)), пара красных пуговиц, красная ленточка или сутаж, белые нитки в машинке и в игле для бисера.
Ножницы простые и зиг-заг, пинцет, холлофайбер для набивки. Далее рисуем два шаблона на картоне или бумаге - один - елку для фетра, второй, чуть меньше (где-то на 4-5 мм по краю) для ткани. Вырезаем шаблоны. Вот и все! Little Robin Pin by lupin. Vintage Felt Baubles. Time for a bit of Christmas crafting, with a tutorial for felt ornaments inspired by vintage glass baubles.
I designed these baubles for Sew Hip last year, but I thought they'd be perfect to share with you all as part of my Crafty Christmas series :) To make your own baubles you will need: - The templates at the bottom of this post - Craft felt in white, grey and a selection of bright candy colours (or whatever colour scheme you've chosen) - Ric rac, plus matching embroidery thread - Matching sewing threads for all the felt & ric rac colours you're using - Narrow ribbon - A sewing needle, pins, sewing scissors and a large needle 1) First cut out your pattern pieces from the templates provided. 2) Position the wide white band onto the middle of one of your bauble shapes so the edges match up. 3) Next place the narrower coloured band of felt in the centre of the white band, pin or hold it in place and stitch around the edges with a line of straight stitches in matching thread.
Ornament Experiments. I mentioned "a fun new crafty project" yesterday and if anyone was paying attention they may have wondered what it was.... Well, I'll let you in on the secret: in a couple of weeks I'll be posting a set of simple Christmas ornament tutorials. Christmas craftiness for one and all! Hurrah! Last night I made a start on sewing some prototype designs to use as examples and had lots of fun sketching and trying out a few ideas. Apart from accidentally giving the snowman, gingerbread man and dove navy blue eyes ('cause I'd muddled up my blue and black sequins! Oops) I think they turned out quite well. I'll post them in a series starting as soon as I've got all my instructions sorted out... Felt Ornament How-To # 2: Baubles. Thanks to the guys at WhipUp for giving my first ornament tutorial a mention! & of course hello to anyone discovering my blog from there :) Today's how-to is for a super-simple design with almost endless possibilities!
It's so simple, you don't even need a pattern but you will need... A sewing needle Some pins Assorted colours of felt (though you can get away with 1 colour) Matching sewing thread Sewing/fabric scissors A piece of paper, a pencil, and something circular to draw round Ribbon, sequins, buttons, ricrac, any decorative odds and ends you can lay your hands on!
1. (you can leave off the semicircle if you prefer). 2. ... remember to use matching thread! 3. 4. One of the easiest (and most sparkly!) The second method is based on stripes. I layered two pieces of bright ribbon to create a lovely stripey effect, pinning them in place and making sure to leave enough length to tuck the ends "inside" the bauble neatly without pulling too tightly and distorting the shape. 5.