CRAFTY

Wedding Bouquet 

2/21/13

I made my wedding bouquet. I really should have taken enough pics to do a DIY on it. I bought the flowers fake flowers and arranged them how I wanted them to look. They came I had to cut them apart from each other and shorten he stems. I used floral tape around the stems to hold them together. I wrapped some white scrap material around the stem of the bouquet to cover the green tape. I then wrapped this beaded ribbon I had around that. I used a hot glue gun for this. I glued and sewed lace thought the flowers. I glued rinestone buttons in the center of the flowers. I also used old brooches throughout the bouquet. 

Button lampshade 

I bought an off white lampshade and sewed by hand all of the buttons on. Its an owl if you don't see it at first. There is an elephant on the other side. 

Finished Product 

Sewing Adventures 

12/2/12

  

 I've been a little busy lately but over the last few months I've done a lot of sewing. Most everything I've done has been a little experimental. Im a very visual person and make most all of my patterns my self. At some point I'll do a tutorial on how to make some of my designs. For now check out a few pics. If you'd like to see a tutorial on a specific one, comment saying so.

PS: I've been doing some sewing 

12/22/11

Dress I remade from a very ugly dress

Shirt I made

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And super fancy!!

Things I've made 

11/7/11

Well I made this pillow case dress. It's the first I've ever tried and 

it turned out really well. I will definitely be doing some more

 and I'll probably make a tutorial. So get excited!!!!

 

My friend Brian wanted to be Ash from Pokemon for Halloween. I made him this shirt thing for the costume. It turned out pretty neat. 

DIY Clutch

How To: make a clutch with super cool fabric and a sewing 

machine. super easy and no pattern needed.

Alrighty, so you'll want to start with two pieces of fabric like so. This will be the outside part of the clutch, Hence the really cool pattern. I completely forgot to measure this, but I'm going say it's about 8x10in. You can make it however big or small you want. You just want the hight of the fabric to be about 2in longer than the width. 

You will also want two separate pieces of fabric for the lining. It needs to be the same size as the fabric you cut before, for the outside of the clutch.

Next you'll want to pin the two pieces for the outside together. The fabric used here has the pattern on only one side so when you pin it together it needs to be pinned with both sides together. (the patterned sides facing). The lining here is just solid black so it doesn't matter how its pinned. You only want to pin 3 sides like so. It's really hard to tell in the first pic, but you can see it better in the 2nd.

Then, you will want to sew around the edges where you pinned (only those 3 sides).

My apologies for not getting a pic of the patterned fabric. But it should look just like the lining. It's a bit messy. My friend Alex did the work on this; she's a beginner.

Now you need to turn the pattern fabric right side out. Where the seam is on the inside. You need to leave the lining just the same and tuck it into the patterned fabric, like so:

It's really hard to see here, but you do not turn the lining inside out or anything. You'll just leave it the same.

Then you'll fold the lining over the outside like this. I'm sorry again, its hard to see. And then you'll sew it down. 

You can do this with or without a handle. For the handle you'll need 2x10in fabric. Here, we used black  to match the lining. You'll fold the fabric in half along the 10in side and then sew it along there. After this you'll turn it right side in, and then fold it in half and sew it into the inside. The seam should be right on top of the seam you did earlier.

I like to sew snaps on the inside to keep it closed. You'll want to do this by hand.

Finished product :))

If you have any questions, let me know!