Tattered Flowers for Embellishment. These fabric flowers are all the rage and super easy to make. The tattered, or raw, edges mute the original fabric's design and give the flowers a vintage feel. Stitch a pin to the back, and you can add them to just about anything: pillows, aprons, jacket lapels, belts, headbands. They take just a tiny bit of fabric and are a great way to use up some of your too-small-for-anything-but-I-can't-bear-to-throw-away-this-gorgeous-fabric scraps. Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome 2160DC ) Scraps of your favorite fabrics: Small button for the flower’s center (optional): All purpose thread to match Hand sewing needle Thimble (optional) Scissors or rotary cutter and mat Straight pins Cut one strip 2” x apx. 45” for each flower. Fold in each short end of the strip ¼", wrong sides together, and press. Fold the entire strip in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press.
Set your machine's stitch length for a long basting stitch. Use your fingers to even out the ruffles. Back of flower. Machwerk: home.php. So geht das: Kissenhülle mit Hotelverschluß. Neulich fragten mich die Damen in der Krabbelgruppe des kleinsten Mitbewohners, ob ich ihnen 6 Kissen für die Kuschelecke nähen würde. Ja, das mach ich gerne, denn Kissen mit Hotelverschluß gehen ratzfatz. Und weil ich mich auch immer über kostenlose Anleitungen freue, egal auf welchem Nähniveau, habe ich euch schnell mal aufgeschrieben, wie ich das mache: Zunächst schneidet ihr euch den ausgesuchten Stoff zu: Mein Kissen soll eine Endgröße von 50x 50 haben, dh ich schneide ein Quadrat zu mit den Maßen 51,5 x 51,5 und 2x Teile in der Größe 51,5 x 42 cm.
Dann versäuber ich alle Kanten mit Zickzackstich, damit der Stoff nicht ausfranst. Jetzt geht´s ans Bügelbrett: eine Kante der kleineren Stücke schlagt ihr etwa 2 cm um und bügelt sie (die landet später innen, muß also nicht perfekt aussehen). Bei dem anderen kleinen Stück bügelt ihr erst 1 cm um und dann nochmal 2 cm Diese Kanten werden jetzt festgenäht. Sieht dann so aus: Stoff umdrehen, die schöne Seite liegt jetzt unten. LG von Caro. Stitching, Sewing, Playing, Growing: Meaningful Word Banners. If any of you have ever followed Ali Edwards, scrapbooker/designer/web goddess, you know she has a ritual of choosing a word of the year to live by every New Year's Day. It's kinda cool--- a word like "breathe" or "cherish".... something that becomes a mantra and shapes your actions for your 12 months ahead. I, myself, haven't actually committed to this practice... haha!
Funny I'm blogging about it without being one to DO it... But the point is, a LOT of my friends DO try to choose word a year, and really DO focus on it. Cute, right?? I just didn't have the mojo to try a whole "MERRY CHRISTMAS" banner for my home, plus if you remember form the last crafty post, I've been trying to use only scrap fabric I already had, and I didn't have enough Christmas-toned fabrics for a banner like that. So, one good friend has her family focusing on the word "SERVE". But the other one of these I made is a little less..... deep. Anyhoo.... Materials: scrap fabric (pieces at least 7"x7" are helpful) A. B. How to make a camera strap cover tutorial. If you know someone who likes to take pictures, Allison of Cluck Cluck Sew has a fabulous gift idea! She sews up plenty of inspiration at her blog so be sure to visit! You won’t want to miss all her lovely tutorials! Allison writes…. How To Make A Camera Strap Cover These are really easy, and make a great gift. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. trim the inside edge seam allowance, it makes more room to slide the strap in and out. 9.
Tee se itse -valas. You can find the tutorial in English here. ETA in February 2012: Hi! Nice of you to stop by! There will eventually be an English translation of this tutorial, so please have some patience:) In the meanwhile, I'm sorry to put up this disclaimer: It's OK to link back to this post, but it is not OK to copy all the photos and the tutorial, or translate it to another another language. Posting this as your own creation is even worse. Ja mainittakoon sama myös suomeksi: valaitten ompelu omaan käyttöön tai lahjaksi on OK, mutta kaupallinen käyttö ja kopiointi on kielletty. Denimvalaan ohjeesta tuli useampikin kysely, mikä ilahdutti kovin ja kauhistutti vielä enemmän – en nimittäin tule kovin hyvin juttuun ohjeitten kanssa. Valaaseen tarvitaan laje vanhoista farkuista, pikkutiplu sinistä puuvillaa silmiä varten, täytevanua, ompelukone, lankaa ja hiukan kärsivällisyyttä.
Aloitetaan leikkaamalla farkunlahkeista valaan selkäpalat (2 kpl), vatsapuoli (2 kpl), pyrstö (2 kpl) ja evät (4 kpl). Tadaa! Wristlet camera strap tutorial. I think my lowly little point and shoot camera feels left out sometimes. What, with all the cool camera strap tutorials out there like this one or this one, heck, even this one that I posted, it can't help but feel inferior. Well, here's a way to keep up with the cool bloggers and their dressed up SLR strap covers. You'll need: 3" x 12" piece of fabric 5" piece of thin elastic cording Start by ironing your fabric in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. Open the fabric and iron each side in, wrong sides together, to the crease mark. Fold in half on crease and iron once more. Top stitch 1/8" along each edge. Fold in raw edges on ends. And sew folded loop of elastic into the folded in ends.
There you go. Easy camera/cell phone/iPod pouch. In light of recent camera tragedies, I thought it would be a good idea if I made some sort of little case for my camera. I came up with these last night. They were really fast, so I made a few. They're the perfect size for a cell phone or iPod as well. It was really easy to do. Here's how: You'll need: 15 x 5 strip of fabric for the lining 15 x 5 strip of fabric for the outside 15 x 5 piece of fusible batting or fusible fleece Start by ironing the batting to the lining fabric. Pin lining fabric and outer fabric, right sides together. Sew, leaving an opening big enough for turning on one of the short sides. Clip corners, being careful not cut any stitches and turn rightside out. Press, being sure to fold in the opening. Topstitch the side with the opening, being sure to sew it shut.
Fold, lining side in, to the size you want your finished pouch. That's it! I may eventually add a snap or a piece of Velcro to close it, but for now, folding the flap over works just fine to toss in my bag and go. Simple camera strap cover. I'll admit I'm just as excited to have a pretty camera strap as I am to have a new camera. This is an easy project, so you can make a bunch and switch them out when you feel like it! This is what I did for my standard Nikon strap. Double check your own strap to see if it's the same size before you start. (And if you have a point and shoot, here's my tute on how to make a wristlet strap for it.)
You'll need: 2 strips of fabric, each 21" x 2.5" long 1 strip of fusible fleece/batting, 20" x 2.5" Iron the short ends of each strip down a quarter inch. Sew two parallel lines to hem the ends (one will catch your fabric, one's just to make it look more finished). Iron the fusible fleece to the wrong side of the strip of fabric you want facing inside. Line up your strips of fabric, right sides together, and pin.
Sew. Turn your fabric tube right side out. Topstitch along each edge and you're all set! I made a few of these assembly line style, so I may put some in my shop. Sorry, giveaway closed.