Charming Window Pillows. Hi! I’m Angela from My Three Sons and I was a mechanical engineer in my life before kids. Really an engineer to the core, I’m all about optimized processes and well-utilized materials. I tried to figure out the best way to make the elusive cathedral window block. So I’ll share some things I found for getting nice points and neat windows. And they are a perfect showcase for your favorite charm pack. We’re going to make two pillows here – most efficient use of materials and all. 1 Just Wing It Charm Pack 1 3/4 Yards Bella Solid Snow 4 Just Wing It Fat Quarters Washable glue stick 2 Square pillow forms – 20″x20″ 2 18-20″ zippers (optional) Pink and Blue Matching thread (optional) Step One: In which you fold fabric and steam it into submission First, from the white yardage cut 5 strips the entire width of the fabric and each 10.5″ wide.
Subcut each of those 5 strips into 10.5″ squares so that you end up with a total of 20 pieces. But you do need to make a perfect 9″ square out of poster board. The quick little bunny tutorial. I really wanted to make the sock bunny that Heidi (from My Paper Crane) created, but I didn’t have any of those fantastic red and brown monkey socks. What I do have is baby socks: tons of cute, mismatched, totally useless, never stay on baby socks.
Now that my littlest is very much not an infant and too soon will be a toddler it seems kind of silly to keep all those teeny tiny socks. So I made a bunny out of them. And a tutorial too. This is indeed a quick little bunny. Materials: baby socka handful of stuffingheavy duty threadscissors Make that bunny: Before you start sewing take second to look at the sock you have. The body: Take some stuffing and stuff the foot part of the sock–not too tight! The tail: On the top of the bunny’s back, sew a circle about an inch in diameter with a simple running stitch.
The head: To make the head, put a little stuffing inside the sock and sew a running stitch around the top of the heel. The ears: Cut a big V shape out of the top of the sock. The attitude: Learn How to Sew a Giraffe Doll at WomansDay.com - Free Craft Ideas. Project excerpted from More Softies Only a Mother Could Love: 22 Hapless but Lovable Friends to Sew and Crochet I based this giraffe pattern on a collage I made out of vintage paper.
After being inspired by other "giraffe makers,” I decided to turn the design into a three-dimensional toy. This is the result. Finished size: 25 cm × 10 cm (10 in × 4 in) Tools • Tracing paper • Fabric marker • Scissors • Pins • Sewing needle • Sewing machine • Stuffing stick (or chopstick) materials • Body fabric – a 30 cm × 40 cm (12 in × 16 in) piece of patterned fabric for the body, and a 20 cm × 25 cm (8 in × 10 in) piece of the same fabric for the gusset and ears Template Softies Giraffe Cut-Out Pattern Template Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Courtesy of More Softies Only a Mother Could Love - available at Amazon.com. Delusions of Grandeur: DIY Tulle Skirt Tutorial. "A store-bought belt can obscure even the sloppiest of home-sewn waistbands.
" ~Ancient Chinese proverb As promised, here is the tutorial for the tulle skirt I sewed for Thanksgiving! I share this with you along with one major caveat: At no point during the making of this skirt did I actually know what I was doing. This will be painfully obvious to those of you with real sewing skills, so please feel free to use this as the most basic of guides and to improve on it any way possible. And I'm sure there are many ways. Credits: My inspiration for this skirt came from a skirt in Anthro's winter line, and from this Etsy seller. The sewing process is a mix of tips from a great tutorial that this blogger put together, the YouTube videos here and here, and my own experimentation.
What you'll need (total cost of materials was approximately $30): 1. 2. 3. 4" satin ribbon for waistband. 1 yard. 4. 5. Steps: 1. *Note - pleating each layer individually will result in a very full skirt (like mine). 2. 3. Picture 206 « Sewing Tutorial: Piggy Pillow. As promised, I have completed the tutorial and the pattern for the “Be My Valentine – Piggy Pillow”, which was published 3 weeks ago. This time I made a pair for my kids, they love it. You may not be able to do it in time for this valentine but as I said, if you have love in you, everyday is valentine. Hope you sew some for your loved ones no matter if it is Feb 14. Besides as a pillow, you can use this pattern to make into other things, for example, pin cushion, smaller softy as gift, or a piggy back pack for little children. Just change the size by reducing or enlarging and modify it to fit into your design.
Material you need:1. Print out the PDF pattern of the piggy pillow. Use a pencil and trace the pattern onto the cotton fabric. Sandwich the towels in between 2 fabrics. Sew it up on the sewing line, it can be from sewing machine or hand stitching. Turn body, ear and tail inside out. Tie a knot at the tip of the tail as shown, mark a length of 4″ from the tip. Sew the ears on. Bustle Skirt | Creation | Cut Out. Tumbler Skirt Tutorial. I came up with the Tumbler Skirt. First, I want to show you how I cut the tumbler blocks. The light in my kitchen was awful that day, so excuse the crap-tacular photos. Then I gave it a quick press with the iron. My tumbler die looks like this: I’m going to place my fabric right on top of the outline you can see vaguely. Then I put my cutting mat on top. The verdict on cutting 6 layers of fabric at once? If you want to make your own Tumbler Skirt, you’ll need to measure the waist of the intended wearer, and round up to the nearest multiple of 3”.
You’ll need double that number for your 2nd tier. You’ll need double the 2nd tier number for your 3rd tier. And so on and so on and so on. My top tier was 9 tumblers. Sew the blocks for each tier together (1/4” seams), small sides up. The finished bottom width on each tumbler is 6”, aka double the finished top width.
Install your zipper and have the wearer try it on. Have the wearer try it on again. It’s super twirly, too. Tied Comforter With Faux Piping. I wish the pictures could illustrate how cozy soft and lofty this blanket turned out. The lightweight blanket for the backing and one layer of batting give it the perfect weight for a comforter, and I used bias tape for an easy way to mimic piping, so easy. I know I say that all the time, but I think I am always surprised at how quick these types of things come together! I spent a week thinking it was going to take ages, but once I finally sat down to do it, I had the blanket cut and assembled while my kids were taking their naps, and finished off with the ties when they went to bed that night.
Can’t beat that! Here is how to do it: I am not going to supply measurements as I made this for an Ikea extendable bed, which is not standard. Supplies: Cutting: I cut off the selvage on the two yards of fabric and that was it, if you are making your blanket bigger just prepare your fabric to the size you need. Now get out the bias tape. Now carefully turn it right side out through the opening. Clothes For Dogs ∙ How To by Marta Angela on Cut Out. Sewing Crafts - Sewing Projects. Sewing Crafts - Sewing Projects. HANDKERCHIEF SKIRT. A handkerchief pointed-hem skirt is flattering to all, but especially for short-legged people because the points break up that horizontal hemline. No pattern is needed to make this skirt style. It is a simple block layout. One easy way to get that effect is to hem two squares of fashion fabric, each having four points (called a “handkerchief” hem) and layer them for an eight-pointed look.
Experiment with swatches of opaque and transparent fabrics as you design and discover what happens when you overlap two layers of the same colour or harmonizing colours. The top layer could be trimmed shorter than the under layer for a tiered look and the hemline could be decorated with flat braid trim or fringe, if desired. Be creative! You will need: 2 ½ yds. of fashion fabric, 45″ wide1 yd. of waist band elastic, 1″ wideCoordinating thread10 yds. of flat ribbon braid (optional) The size of the circular opening should be just big enough to pull over your hips, and can then be tightened with elastic.
Make Your Own Pattern. People often ask how I sew without Store-bought patterns. It’s not hard to do and you can do it to too! I’ll show you how. First off, I don’t totally “wing it”. I use a piece of clothing I already have as my guideline and improvise from there. The nice thing about children growing out of their clothes is that you can use a shirt they’ve grown out of as a new pattern (or guideline). If you’re new to sewing, the best way to understand clothing construction is to actually deconstruct it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how I made patterns for: and Turn a men’s T-shirt into a little boy’s shirt.
I love the envelope sleeve look (found on baby onesies).A) they just look cuteB) they make for an (almost) mistake-free way of sewing on sleeves. Probably every mom has an old onesie that their baby has spit-up on, stained, stretched, and well, it’s ready for the trash. This will serve as our “pattern”. Trace that onesie piece with the added sizing onto paper (or old scrap fabric) and then cut it out. Free Sewing Patterns - Over 2000! Welcome to the Free Sewing Patterns & Projects section at SewingSupport.com! Providing easy access to over 4,500 of the best free sewing patterns online (many with printable templates). And organized by category so you can easily find the sewing projects you’re looking for. How this section came about: I saw that there were tons of amazing free sewing patterns and tutorials out there on the web (especially from quite a few very talented craft and sewing bloggers) but many of these patterns were scattered and couldn't easily be found through doing a quick Google search.
So I decided to gather as many of these patterns as I could find and put them "all in one place," so to speak. This makes the patterns and tutorials much easier to find, saving you the time and energy it would take to find them yourselves. Happy sewing! Hot Packs. These are great hot compresses that you just stick in the microwave for 60 seconds! So easy to make and you can be sure there aren’t any scary chemicals inside.
My mother and Boo are responsible for this tutorial….I just took the photos for them! It’s the perfect use for those cute baby legwarmers your kiddo might have grown out of. Make some as gifts to add to a basket of bath products! They’ve been great for when my leg hurts! All you need is white rice (or buckwheat if you prefer), long socks or baby leg warmers. needle and thread, and some essential oils: If you are using long socks you can cut the foot off or just skip this step. It’s such an easy sewing project a 4-year-old can do it: Here’s the closed end: Fill a measuring cup with white rice: Fill the sock or legwarmer to the top with rice: If you want to use essential oils, make sure you use pure, therapeutic-grade oils.
Sew up the other end of the sock or legwarmer so the rice is completely enclosed. P.S. Noel Home: Comfy PJ Pants for the Whole Family. Our thanks to our creative friends at our Signature Sponsor, Janome for sharing this project with us. It was created last year for a special New Sewists Series they put together, and the instructions show you how to make pajama pants without a pattern; simply grab your favorite current pair and use them as a template. We added a jazzy bottom accent cuff to ours so we could mix and match our beautiful Michael Miller Bonnes Amies fabrics. This is a perfect project for beginners: super fast, easy and instantly gratifying. We thought it would be great fun to surprise the whole family on Christmas morning with matching PJ pants. I recruited one of the cutest families I know to be our models, and the rest is dreamy history. Our thanks to the great folks at Michael Miller Fabrics for providing the Bonnes Amies fabric we used for our four pairs of PJ pants.
This is a fairly new collection, but is available now in many stores and online outlets, such as from our friends at Fat Quarter Shop. FFS Fang costume. Steampunk.