Craft Nectar. Glossary. Embroidery Designs at Urban Threads - Home. How to make a High-waist corset skirt. In this tutorial you will learn how to make the pattern and how to sew together a skirt similar to the one below.
You will need-measuring tape-paper (the bigger the better)-pencil-eraser-ruler (as long as possible)-cloth-thread-pins/needles-corset boning - if possible the kind you can actually sew on the cloth. -eyelets-invisible zipper-fusible interfacing-ribbon, lace etc for finishing touches-sewing machine Taking the needed measures: A - waistB - hipC - under bustD - distance from the waistline to the hip-line (it's usually around 18-20 cm / 7,1 - 7,9 in depending on the person)E - distance from the hip-line to the desired skirt length.F - distance between the waistline and the under bust-line (desired height) Making the pattern Start off by creating a box system like you can see in the image below.The distance from point 1 to point 2 is half of your HIP measure ( let's say mine is 95 cm - the distance from 1 to 2 is 47,5 cm for me then). Line nr 4 is the hip line. Okay.
DIY Screen Printing How-to. Sleeper of a Bag. The Idea Room: How to Make Leaf Skeletons. I wanted to share with you a project from one of my readers who shares with us how to make leaf skeletons.
I LOVE this! I have several leafs in various forms displayed in my home and knew I needed to make some of her leaf skeletons to add to my decor. I love how a pattern of leaves can enhance the beauty in your home. So I asked Heather if she would mind sharing her project with you. You can find more great projects from Heather at her blog The Other White House. I have spent hours and tried various ways of making these.
You need washing soda, not baking soda! Gather your leaves. Washing soda is a strong base so you may want to wear gloves when handling the leaves. You will add 3/4 cup of washing soda and 4 cups of water to your pot of leaves. Keep going, you will need to add more water so your pan doesn’t dry out. When 1.75 hours are up fill a glass baking dish with cool water. I carefully removed them and rinsed with water and added clean water to the pan. 37.1Kstumbleupon. Upcycled Skirts: Umbrellas Converted into Colorful Clothes. Like designing your own styles to dress in but not skilled with complex stitching or comfortable with creating new patterns?
From their shapes and size to their scale and appearance, skirts and umbrellas have a lot in common – except, perhaps, that when it comes to an umbrella the interior is designed to be seen publicly and thus is as carefully considered and crafted as the exterior … whereas, well, looking up a skirt … that might get you in trouble. But seriously: used umbrella material is a perfect choice in many regards to upcycle into a skirt, dress, other easily-planned piece of refab clothing, as designer Cecilia Felli discovered during her creative umbrella-to-skirt upcycling experiments. Moreover, since umbrellas are well known for breaking down, this provides a simple do-it-yourself way to take advantage of something that frequently falls apart.
Umbrellas come in all kinds of colorful, creative and unique patterns that convert readily into skirt material for women or girls. 10 Bookshelves Way Too Cool for Books. Henry Higgins moving around on his library ladder in My Fair Lady makes me swoon.
Not Rex Harrison. The shelves. For a bibliophile, walls of shelving is a dream come true. But life in a standard one and a half story rural home makes the libraries of the Victorian era impossible. So I've made it my mission to find shelves that make you scream "wait, that's a bookshelf? " Trust me, these will make you swoon in a totally non-sexy Rexy way: What's a book other than a giant pile of letters thrown together in just the right way to tell a story? It's a comic book statement! For the geek in all of us, shelves that look like a Nintendo game world. Fitting everything into those tiny spaces may be a bear, but totally worth it. We've got a case of the warm and fuzzies from a fireplace stocked with fuel for the mind. An unfinished ceiling becomes a book lovers' view of heaven from below. Extreme Repurposing. Photos: Good Design Expo 2010. This year's Good Design Expo, which took place at Tokyo Big Sight over the weekend (Aug 27-29), showcased over 2,000 design-conscious items under consideration for the 2010 Good Design Award.
Here are photos of a few items that were on display. Goya de Goya: Goya (a.k.a. bitter melon) planter bag that resembles a giant goya (Protoleaf) Tomato ni Tomato: Tomato planter bag that resembles a giant tomato (Protoleaf) Sola Cube: Botanical materials encased in cubes of acrylic (Sola)