Photo tag

 This blog inspired me to try and design my own picture tag, to personalize the pics I take, here is a first try:

Baby shoes pattern + finish

Time to make baby shower presents... 

There is a baby shoe pattern on the web that is super popular from Stardust shoes : link to her tutorial, they are soooo cute!

But there is no indication on how to make the baby shoes somehow "seamless" i.e to sew a sole inside the shoes so as to hide the seams between the sole and the sides, so here is what I do:

Before turning the shoe right side out

I cut an extra piece of sole in the "lining" fabric and pin it on top of the shoe as seen above, so that this piece of fabric "sandwiches" the whole shoe.

Then I sew it (5mm from the border) and leave an opening to turn the shoe inside out, don't forget to cut slits all around the edge (this smoothes the curves when turned inside out)

Once turned inside out, sew the opening by hand, then turn the shoe right side out and you're done!

Gaveleg hos Lille bitte fnug

Jeg deltog i Lille bitte fnugs gaveleg og fik den her rigtig søde Giraf rangle! Mange tak Betina, den er så sød og gav mig lige lidt inspiration til et nyt projekt :-)

Desuden har jeg set at nogle nu spiller med nye regler, lige som f. eks en gaveleg jeg er med i hos  Frk Turkis.

Derfor har jeg besluttet mig også at ændre den her leg lidt denne gang.

1. Jeg foreslår at sende en gave til den første der melder sig - omkring et tema jeg vælger

2. Den der har meldt sig skal sende mig en gave omkring det samme tema

3. Hvis man har lyst til det, kan man viderføre legen på sin blog

Temaet bliver...... JORDBÆR!

Hvad siger I til det ? Håber nogen har lyst til at deltage i min gaveleg :-)

PS: Betina, du kan godt regne med at få en lille gave retur fra mig :-)

Patch sewing time

Elbow patch sewing time for two sweaters of Mr. Cool - He got very happy with the work done on the grey one :

 but totally disapproved of the result on the braun one... go figure...

Tree of life - jewelry pendant

Tutorial from the Crafts Channel on youtube

Mini Crochet cupcakes

So the Crafts Beautiful magazine just arrived in my mailbox with a little leaflet with "summer crochet projects", where I found this crochet cupcake/muffin:

Unfortunately the instructions were not complete as there was no indication on where to switch color and on how to do the nice "corolla " around the cupcake...anyway I wanted to do a smaller cupcake, something that could be used as a present tag so here is my revisited version of the cupcake in a mini format (^-^)

row1:  4 sc. in an adjustable loop/magic circle - slip stitch to close the circle

row2:  2sc in each stitch (8 sts)

row3:  *1 sc, 2sc* repeat 4 times (12 sts)

row4:  *1 sc in next 2 stitches, 2 sc* repeat 4 times (16 sts)

row5:  work 1 sc in each stitch around (16 sts), sl st the first st of the row then 1 ch

row6:  change color and work 1sc in each stitch around (16 sts)

row7:  *1sc in next 2 stitches, sc2tog* repeat 4 times (12 sts)

row8:  work 1 sc. in each stitch around (12 sts)

row9:  work 1 sc. in each stitch around (12 sts)

row10: work 1 sc. in each stitch around (12 sts)

------- fill the cupcake with filling material

row11: work only in the back loops: *1sc, sc2tog* repeat 4 times (8 sts)

row12: sc2tog in each stitch (i.e. 4 times), finish with a slip stitch, weave in the end

Then I crochet the corolla on the last row of the first color, as shown on the picture : *1 sc in the first "stitch" and 3 sc. in the next stitch* repeat until the end.

I added some beads on the top as "topping" and voila!

Recycled baby shoe bag...

Baby Shoe Bag

Inspired by Dina Ladina's wonderful world ! - made this very easy shoe bag with this tutorial (craftideas.info)

Lynhurtig mini Give Away - Gaverne blev sendt

Og her er en sidste minipengepung jeg har syet til Lene S. 

Håber de alle sammen bliver glad for dem og at farven vil bringe os solen tilbage ! (^-^)

Fabric Bracelet - Bracelet en tissu

I completely fell in love with those "fabric bracelets" from Kitty

So had to duplicate them... I like to have mine wrap my wrist twice

And did some tests with a bead on one band

and a bead attached to both bands

Stroller raincover pocket

It has been a while now that I have been in need of a "stroller rain cover pocket", to keep it safe from theft and from the wind (that has blown away my last rain cover...)

I conveniently used the coin purse tutorial from Tiffany Harvey (alias pmthreads) and added some velcro straps on the back to attach it to the stroller

 

My new t-shirt

Card exercise

From a postcard - card exercise

Japanese folded patchwork tutorial

 

Update (8 May 2010): 

Thanks so much to Rachel who has linked my post - check out all the great tutorials she finds at oneprettything.com

and thanks to Samurai mom, I now know the "real" name of this patchwork pattern: Cathedral Windows!

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I call it japanese folded patchwork but I'm not sure of the "real" name moreover I have seen various versions of it on the internet - ( for which btw I would be very glad to find some tutorials)

But for now this is how I was taught by my mother, so it is a special post that I would like to share with you today.

First the base: cut squares that you will fold "a la origami style" - bringing the points of the square to the center like so and press

Then flip the square over and fold it again in the same way

Attach the squares by sewing the sides together like so (using a whip stitch)

what you see on the picture is the back of the patchwork

Then I secure the "points" of each square with some stiches like so

Now comes the fun part: choosing fabric and cutting square shapes that should be about 1-2 mm smaller that the area they cover - see the pic

I fold the outer base fabric on the colored square so that it overlaps it a bit and start sewing from the corner with an invisible stitch, I sew the base fabric together at the corner so as to enclose the square in it - if that makes sense - and repeat with the four sides and you're done !

Lynhurtig Give Away vinderne

Så var der tid i dag til en lille trækning... Mange tak til alle der ville gerne deltage :-)

Tillykke til Meilhede, Mona og Lene S. min lille søn syntes der skulle være tre vindere!
Vil I være søde at sende mig jeres oplysninger så jeg kan sende gaverne til jer :-)

Hav en God uge!

PS: beklager Smilehull og Catrine - I kom efter trækningen - det var en rigtig lynhurtig give away ! Men jeg vil sikkert gøre det igen (^-^)

Lynhurtig mini Give Away

Edit: trækker nu : 17:00

 

Små-bitte "portemonnaie" : Tutorial fra pmthreads

Skriv en kommentar hvis du vil være med :-)

Trækker 2 vinder så snart som muligt den kommende uge

Soap Cake with roses

Loving Tone Finnanger's style (Tilda), I recently purchased this book: "Sew Sunny Homestyle"

Tried to reproduce the soap cake, where she uses "whipped soap" - I followed the instructions from the SoapQueenTV video and used an old layered soap I had made some time ago as the base for the cake - I have to say it was difficult for me to obtain the frosting effect because the mass cools so fast that it looses very quickly it's fluidity, I guess it might help to have a microwave to heat it faster and rework it (?)

Fabric Memory Card Game

After some struggle with the binding (cf. post below) I managed to finish my mini memory card game (^-^)

 

 

 

 

How to sew binding - bias tape at the corners

While trying to do some "memory cards" out of fabric, I realised I have a lot to learn about sewing the binding, and found three videos on youtube to illustrate three steps:

1. First step to sew the binding at the corners on the wrong side of your work

2. How to finish off the corners on the other side of the work

3. How to get a nice not too visible " join of the ends of the binding

Fuse beads necklace