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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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...
shabby flower pillow (a tutorial) Sometimes, ideas in my head don’t always turn out as planned. And sometimes, they turn out better…. After running across Sweet Jessie’s Scalloped Garland tutorial a few months ago, I wanted to take the same technique and use it to make a shabby, fun, linen pillow. Here’s how I did it: Supplies Needed:fabric (I used linen)sewing machinezipper (if desired) Step 1: Create your “petals”. Step 2: Take sew petals and turn inside out. Step 3: Stitch petals down to fabric. Step 4: Continue creating petals and attaching them to pillow front. Step 5: Almost there! Step 6: Glue or stitch your flower’s center onto your pillow fabric. You Might Also Like: Tsumami Kanzashi Flower Hair Clip I have recently discovered these beautiful folded flowers, and I absolutely cannot stop making them. Tsumami Kanzashi are traditional Japanese folded flowers, made from small squares of silk, that are typically worn by women as hair ornaments in traditional hairstyles. They seem really complicated and intricate, and they can certainly be that if you really want; but it completely doesn't need to be! I love to make them out of cotton prints that are fun and bright, in addition to scraps of silk and other light fabrics. These can be used in countless applications. There are a few tutorials out there on the internet, but to find a good variety in petal shapes can certainly be difficult, you just have to keep looking, and just grab a square of fabric and just test stuff out.
Polka Dot Cottage Category Archive for : tutorials Everyday Cardigan KAL: finishing up! The knitting is complete, so today we’ll wrap things up by talking about finishing: weaving in ends, sewing on buttons, blocking, etc. continue reading "Everyday Cardigan KAL: finishing up!" Everyday Cardigan KAL: the other sleeve Woo hoo! continue reading "Everyday Cardigan KAL: the other sleeve" Everyday Cardigan KAL: Underarm increases and more of the body Today, we’ll do one last increase row, and then embark on what may be the most boring part of the whole project. continue reading "Everyday Cardigan KAL: Underarm increases and more of the body" Everyday Cardigan KAL: Separating sleeves and starting the body At this point you should be finished with the yoke and ready to take the sleeve stitches off of the needle. continue reading "Everyday Cardigan KAL: Separating sleeves and starting the body" Everyday Cardigan KAL: Yoke part 2 continue reading "Everyday Cardigan KAL: Yoke part 2" Everyday Cardigan KAL: Yoke part 1 Everyday Cardigan KAL: Getting Started
Miniature Fabric Flower Garland | DIY Wedding Blog Back in July, Once Wed featured the Free Wedding and a lot of people left comments asking how to recreate the fabric flower garland. So, I thought I would put together a miniature version of it for everyone. It’s easy to make and can be used in so many ways… hung from the ceiling, attached to the back of chairs, aisle “rope” or laid on the table for an added element. -Ashley of Dolci Odille Supplies: Scissors, needle and thread, fabric, and a pencil. Step 1: Fold your fabric and use the spool of thread to trace a circle. Step 2: Take one circle and fold it in half. Step 3: Take the half circle and fold it in half again. Step 4: Then take your circle and stitch through the bottom. Step 5: Once you have sewn all 6 circles, connect the petals together by stitching through each one at the corners and then tying off the tread with a double knot. Step 6: Next, cut 3 yards of thread and add on the flowers one by one. Project created by Dolci Odille
waiting Here's a picture of me waiting in the Radcliffe library for my date with a boy named J.D. His short stories are brilliant and have been published in The New Yorker, but I fear, entre nous, that he may be a little too misanthropic for me. Speaking of fiction, don't you love the outfit? You can make a giant flower like this white one by cutting up old t-shirts. Look! Cut a strip of t-shirt fabric, stitch down the middle, gather, fold in half lengthwise, and roll it up. Blob some fabric glue on the back and stick it to a circle of fabric. Wear them on a date or stick them in a vase!