Silk Lotus Flower The silk lotus flower is easy to construct, but looks very luxurious. You can make it in any size, but pick fabrics that tend to be stiff, like silk taffeta or dupione. You can singe the edges of the petals with a flame, or just leave the cut edges raw. After you master the basic technique, you can experiment with different petal shapes. Become a Threads Insider today to get access to this and other exclusive Insider-only blog posts. Become an Insider and enjoy unlimited access to: All-time favorite articles from Threads Special Insider discounts and offers Digital access to our most recent issues And so much more!
Dragon dress: Garden Part 3 PLUS TUTE! Finally. My Dragon dress!!!! I can't say how much I love this dress. I saw the fabric at the fabric store and knew I had to make a dress. I love the shape of the skirt I wore it to a friends memorial because it reminded me of him and it was a huge hit. Tute:Fabric: I used three yards and had some left over...I'm 6'0 so most people will need a bit less.Zipper: Whatever length you feel comfortable with. *To start measure from your waist (bellybutton or smallest part of your torso) to about how long you want the skirt of your dress to be and add an inch. Fold in half and snip the parts that are a little uneven so you have a nice looking slope. This is the basic shape you want to cut out for the dress top. Measure the widest part of your bust and cut your piece that long. Here are the first set of darts. Close up. The second set of darts. This is around what the new shape should look like after both sets of darts on either side. Find the center of the skirt and the top and the back. Sew across.
Expect Moore: Yo Yo Bangle Bracelet A couple weeks ago, Arrow Cabinets sent a call out on their blog for contest entries in their Yo-yo contest. You might ask, what is a yo-yo? Essentially, it is a little gathered fabric circle. Each bracelet uses about 25 mini yo-yos, and took a couple hours to make. If you want to make your own, here is a step-by-step tutorial that shows you how… Supplies:Scrap fabricFabric marking pen Quarter Needle & thread Bangle braceletScrap of feltGorilla Glue I started out by tracing my quarter on the fabric. I then cut out the circles, just outside the marker line. I grabbed my needle and thread and started stitching. This is what it looked like after I stitched all the way around. I carefully pulled the thread tight. Using the hole as the top center, I squished the little fabric ball between my fingers to make it flat. Using coordinating thread and tiny stitches, I started attaching the yo yos to the bangle. Here is the bracelet with all the yo-yo attached. Finished… now time to make some more!
s Skirt Pattern Calculator A 60cm long, 50° skirt, made 3cm wider in the waist to allow for darts in the back. Here's a quick pattern calculator that tells you how to make two main arc pieces for a simple flared skirt. It does not consider seams, hems, or seam allowance, but you can figure that out on your own. Instructions Use the 'results' to measure out two identical pieces. Sew the straight edges together, and you've got a skirt! The 'degrees' you put in will determine how much flare the skirt's got. On the other hand, if you put in more than 180 degrees, the tape measure will go inside the fabric and swing around the top: (click on either image to see full size) The idea is that you can play with the degrees setting to get pattern that fits the fabric you have.
The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog Okay... so you know how you have an idea, but you're not really quite sure how you're going to execute it... well... THIS was one of those kids of projects. lol. I had this extra material left, from making my shower curtain extension... and wanted to make a pillow, but the form I had was square... and I just had this long piece of pink fabric left... I had seen a pleated pillow in one of my favorite fabric stores a while back, and then also remembered seeing a really cute one on V and Co. She actually sells her patterns! So I was off to try my hand at one :) I cut my long piece of fabric into three sections. like so. About the size of my pillow form, plus half. Then free handed a ruffle on either side of the large piece of fabric It looked like this after I was done. Kinda billowy and full Then I kinda pleated/folded the fabric to fit onto another square piece of fabric, the size of my pillow I sewed up one side of the pleat onto the pillow sized piece... like so. So it now looked like this!
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The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog I love these fun flowers. I have seen them all over blogland! I love all the different ways that people have come up with using them! Here's how I did mine. First I cut out a bunch of circles from this sheer fabric I found at JoAnn's. (I hate to say this... but I don't even remember what the fabric was called... lol. I did them in different sizes, so when I layered them, they looked like a flower Some of them had bends and such in them, so I used a warm iron and ironed all the circles flat. PS. Then I took a candle and lightly ran the edges of each flower along the heat of the flame. **Don't get too close, or your flower will just burn up. They looked like this after I was finished Then I took a needle and thread and put a stitch through the middle, to keep all my petals together, how I wanted them. Lastly I added a few pink crystal beads to the middle.... I would have glued them, but they were going on a pillow for my 2 year olds room, so I wanted them to have a little more durability.
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The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog I was browsing blogs a couple weeks back and found a post about these great hand made crepe paper roses on this cute scrapbooking blog! Homespun with Heart The second I saw them I KNEW what I was gonna do! I have had these Styrofoam ball forms for a while now, and thought I would do cute flowers all over them, and hang them in the twins' room. But sadly, the flower idea was pretty expensive. Especially because I wanted to do three of them. SO I thought this was a great, thrifty alternative! And I LOVE how they turned out! Here's what you'll need: Styrofoam ball forms Crepe paper streamers in whatever colors you choose LOTS of hot glue sticks and a glue gun a roll of tape and a measuring stick I measured my crepe paper strips at 24 inches, and ripped a BUNCH at that length, so I wouldn't have to keep stopping, to rip more Once that was done... and my glue gun was nice and hot, I started in on my flower makin'! First I crumpled the strips up, to make them softer and more fabric looking... Easy-peezy!
Embroidery Designs at Urban Threads - Projects - StumbleUpon Now it's time to grab that other sock, provided it hasn't disappeared. Don't laugh -- I have about a half dozen socks whose partners have mysteriously vanished. It can happen. Turn the sock inside out and flatten it the other way, so the heel is folded in half. The long front half of the sock is the tail. Before cutting anything, I'll give you a bit of advice I learned the hard way: You'll notice the tail and the arms are the uppermost section. The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog picture courtesy of Miss Emberly...lol Does she know how to work the lighting or WHAT? :) I love these flowers! They are great for big OR little kids :) Sorry this took a couple of days to get up! From Laci, from our family photo shoot, and some good step by step tutorial shots as well. I've seen tutorials for these beauties floating around everywhere. Okay... so first, I started off with these adorable scrapbooking brads... yes... I said brads. lol I couldn't find buttons that I loved, and when I went to the Scrapbooking Expo, here in Sandy, a few weekends back, I saw these... and KNEW they would work great! I took the backs and bent them out... then I wiggled off the actual "sticky-uppy-brad" part. yup... that's the technical term :) So I was left with JUST the tops, and flat bottoms. I bought a pack of these headbands at Walmart for about $4.00. Picked up some cute fabric, at my local fabric store, and cut out circles about 3 inches or so across. Really... they don't have to be perfect. Okay...