Sleeves, Necklines, Collars, and Dress Types | She's in Fashion I’ve recently ventured into drafting patterns starting from my basic bodice and skirt sloper. The fit issues are minimal, since the sloper is made skin tight. Design ease is added as you go along. I found these reference pictures useful for ideas on basic sleeves, necklines, collars, and dress types. These are from Vogue Sewing, circa 1982. Extensive List of Easy Home-made Household Products for Frugal Living Make a Frugal Living By Making Your Own! This is my extensive list of simple and easy home-made household products recipes...with a seasoning of frugal living advice, and an occasional dash of scientific explaination. Besides being fun to make, these do-it-yourself recipes will help you save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year. These may improve your health too (a good example is the Homemade Deodorant Recipe below). Mixing up these recipes will also give you the satisfaction of becoming more self-sufficient - which is one of the corner stones of making a frugal living. You will find many of these simple home-made alternatives to be much safer and more effective than their store-bought toxic alternatives. You can choose a product category from the menu below or use the search box to find more recipes. Frugal Mad Scientist At Your Service By the way, in case you didn't know, I am not only frugal but I am also a bit of a Mad Scientist, and a concerned scientist too. Less Debt. Enjoy...
Feminine Cloth Pad Tutorial Each February, our church participates in a short-term mission trip to Haiti with Mission Possible. The purpose of this outreach is to share the love of God and help the poor through education. One area of the outreach includes educating girls about their menstrual cycles and proper body care. Girls are provided Feminine Hygiene kits that contain supplies to use during their monthly cycle. This simple kit will not only improve her health, but will also enable her to remain in school 45 more days per year where she can continue to learn. Education is the key to providing hope. Along with basic hygiene information, each kit contains 2 bars of soap, 3 pair of underwear, 100 ibubrofen tablets, 5 safety pins, and 10 cloth sanitary pads. How you can help Last year 5,000 sanitary pads were donated for this project, and the hope is to expand the outreach to more girls in the future. The following tutorial was written to assist those who want to join our efforts. Feminine Cloth Pad Tutorial
The Colette Patterns Pants Fitting Cheatsheet Fitting pants is a bit tricky, let’s face it. There are a lot of differences among women in the areas between waist and ankles. You’ve got hips and waists of different sizes, butts of various shapes, legs of all different lengths, thighs that bulge in different ways, calves that may or may not be muscular. With all these factors, no wonder pants fitting seems so mystifying. I wanted to find a way to distill most of the pants adjustments you might need down into an easy to scan format. Waist and Belly Hips and Crotch Back and Butt Legs Citations:Fitting and Pattern Alteration by Elizabeth G. Pioneer Thinking - Reflexion de Pionnier - Pensamiento de Pionero
Cloth pads Apparently the average woman will use around 17,000 pads or tampons in her lifetime, the majority of which are flushed down the toilet, a terrible though huh? Just imagine the waste they produce, damage they cause and the money they cost us.After having my second child i breastfed until she was around 15 months old therefore i didn't menstruate, it was great. Soon after i weaned her from the boob my cycle returned, ugh, i started using tampons again and i hate them. So, i have stared to make my own cloth pads and am looking into ordering a menstrual cup.I have put together a step by step of how i make my own cloth pads, i will add the pattern to the sidebar in the next few days. Cloth padsYou will need:flannel for outerflannel for innerscissorspinssewing machine Wash, dry and press your fabric. Cut out your pattern pieces Take each of the bottom pieces and fold the opening edge over 1/4 inch, press then fold over again, press and sew in place. Press. Underside with pad The finished pad
Tutorial: Sprocket Pillows These are my favorite new pillows. They are fast and unbelievably easy to make…and I hope you love them as much as I do. I did my best to simplify the instructions/pattern so they are beginner friendly, and super fun to make. If you’ve never worked with a template or curves, and your nervous about it…these pillows are a perfect place to start. There are pattern templates for two sizes: Click the link below to download the pattern templates *For best results, print the templates directly from google docs (click file on the left and print). ** Please do not re-post the link to these templates on your own website! You will also need: Large fabric scraps for the top wedges, a 5" x width of fabric strip for the middle (plus a little extra for the large size), a fat quarter for the back, a bag of poly-fill stuffing, and a button and thread for the center. Let’s get started!!!! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Large Pillow: 5" x 50" strip Small Pillow: 5" x 43 1/2" strip 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. And there you go.
Make it: Gardener Lotion Bar From the Nature's Gifts episode of Creative Juice on DIY Network. Smooth out skin's rough edges with a homemade lotion bar. Perfect for gardeners, knitters or anyone who needs a little soothing care for their hands. This easy recipe is so good for the skin! Gardener Lotion Bar Ingredients: 3 tbsp. beeswax pellets 2 tbsp. regular cocoa butter 3 tbsp. shea butter 2 tbsp. sweet almond oil 2 tbsp. calendula oil ¼ tsp. vitamin E acetate soap bar mold glass measuring cup small saucepan popsicle stick for stirring optional – essential oils Steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Thanks for stopping by! xo Cathie and Steve
Mama Cloth Panty Liner Tutorial and Pattern I finally made the change to mama cloth! I will never go back again to 'sposies'. The mama cloth panty liners are so soft, comfortable and breathable. Really it doesn't feel like I'm wearing anything but underwear! I dare you just to make one to try out and see what you think. Did you know that mama cloth is so much healthier for you? I looked at several patterns, but ended up designing my own (I'm picky about size ;-). I used all scraps I had on hand for my panty liners. You will need a cotton print for the 'wrapper' part of the liner, a cotton inner (I used an old t-shirt), a cotton topper (I used scrap thin white broadcloth) and of course your pattern. Cut 2 of the print wrapper, 1 of the cotton inner and 1 of the cotton topper. Pin right sides together of the print wrapper and then the inner and outer layers. Sew both sets together while leaving an opening to turn right side out. Tuck in raw edges of the opening on the print wrapper and then top stitch around the wrapper.
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Frugal Kiwi — Live Green. Spend Less. Homemade Cloth Pads – Free Cloth Pads Pattern – Mama Cloth Stop! I see you there trying to run away from this post! Before you go in terror at least hear me out. About a year ago I first heard about cloth pads. My first reaction was, YUCK! Why would you want to have to deal with such a thing? Cloth pads(or at least the ones you should be buying!) Those reasons were too good for me not to give it a try. But then I got really brave and decided it was time to make my own. Supplies you need: Flannel (not very much, at least ¼ yard in 2 colors will make you a couple pads)Sewing machineThreadMeasuring TapeScissorsCloth Pad Liner Pattern First you will need to trace around your pattern on the fabric. Cut out two of each of the patterns. Turn the fabric inside out and sew the liner around the edges. Snip a hole in one side of both the wings and the pad. Use this to turn the fabric right side out. Make sure to put the sides with the holes together so you won’t be able to see them in the finished pad. Sew the pad onto the wings. That’s all there is to it!
Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » sewing 101: making a pouf Add a burst of color to your room with this crafty pouf! At 17” wide and 10” deep, it’s large enough to serve as floor seating or a foot stool. (And if you have pets, I have a feeling they may want to make this their new favorite spot!) This project is a little challenging to sew, but it’s not too difficult, so if you’re comfortable with the basics of sewing, give it a try. You can make a colorwheel effect with a range of solid colors, or choose a variety of patterned fabrics for a louder patchwork effect. I love the idea of making a set of these poufs in a range of sizes, for a sculptural stack of cushions that will become a room element in their own right. CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump! Finished Dimensions: 17” diameter by 10” tall What You’ll Need ¼ yard each 12 coordinating fabrics (I used quilting cottons) 1 yard muslin 3 pounds fiberfill stuffing 2 large buttons (approximately 1 ½”) 2 flat metal washers, slightly smaller than your buttons fishing line sewing thread iron 1.