Tag: Beads

Fabric Inchie Collage

dotslifeandart Fabric Inchie Collage

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I told before how you can make matching, but not equal paper inchies*.

Here she shows how to make wondeful fabric inchies.
It must be a lot of fun.

* What is an inchie? An Inchie is a 1″ square of art. They are made from paper or fabric and then embellished in innumerable ways (see links below).


Links:
1″ fabric collage tutorial…

Google image search result for ‘inchies’
Flickr image search result for ‘inchies’

Here at unikatissima:
Serendipity Collage

Beaded Art Dolls

craftster Coral Beaded Art Doll

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On the photo is one of the first Beaded Art Dolls I’ve ever seen and it impressed me deeply.
I always wanted to make one but haven’t had the time yet.
Up until now I only made my freeform bead embroidery ;-)

But I looked for ‘Bead Art Doll’ already ;-)
In doing so I found a mermaid and a butterfly craftalong (in a craftalong several people work on the same project and compare notes). Furthermore I found a most beautiful bird, a blog entry on the subject of ‘Beaded Art Dolls’ and several wonderful finished Beaded Art Dolls, where I like most the Wise One and the little Alien Doll.

If you want to make one, too, you can get patterns for the dolls here.


Links:
Beaded Art Doll on the photo (Coral beaded art doll (first ever!))

Mermaid beaded art doll craftalong with descriptions
Butterfly beaded art doll craftalong with descriptions

Bird (beaded bird art doll)

As inspiration:
Blog entry (Use Beads as Art:Beaded Art Dolls)
Photos of Beaded Art Dolls
Wise One
Alien Doll

Google image search result for ‘bead art doll’

Free patterns: Doll Forms & Figures – you find the links on the top left: FREE PATTERNS! Bird Goddess, Tiny Goddess, Butterfly Goddess

Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Bead Embroidery

Beaded Embroidery Stitches

Beadwrangler Samplers Beaded Embroidery Stitches

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Actually Advent should be a time of contemplativeness and so it should exactly be the right time to try something fiddly as beaded embroidery.

For those who experience a less contemplative Advent: you will have time to try it later, too ;-))
And if you don’t have beads at hand at the moment, try some ‘normal’ embroidery ;-)

On the photo you see a beaded cross stitch, I find it cute and put it on my list of things-to-try.


Links:
Making Bead Embroidery Samples Part I
Here you can find the beaded cross stitch, you must scroll down to ‘Bead Cross Stitch’.
Making Bead Embroidery Samples Part II

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’

Beaded Shoes

Craft Passion Beaded Shoes

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I’d never have had the idea myself: beading shoes!
Up until now I mostly ‘jumped’ at buttons and pins and the bead embroidered Paisleys are still on my list, but shoes…
If you don’t like the pattern, check out again the cross stitch patterns treasures ;-)

I’m thrilled, it’s possible that I really will make them once ;-)

You can possibly even embroider your self-made shoes.
On the other hand it may be easier to spraypaint the shoes.
And if you are a sneaker type you may prefer to customize your sneakers ;-)
Besides fall has begun, possibly you better add crochet embellishments to your shoes?! ;-)


Links:
Kasut Manek (Beaded Shoes)
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 1 – Preparing the frame and canvas
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 2 – Border Beading
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 3 – Interior Beading
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 4 – How to take measurement on your foot

Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Bead Picots
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures
Sneaker Customizing
Self-made Shoes
Spraypainting Accessories
Shoe-torial

Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures

myauntsattic Cross Stitch Patterns

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I found a blog where the author fetched the cross stitch patterns of an old aunt from the attic and published them.
I saw beautiful patterns thereby and it’s not as if you had to work cross stitch only with the patterns ;-)

The blog is written in Netherlands and English (the italic text), but the patterns can be recognized anyhow ;-))


Links:
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures (Tantes zolder) (Netherlands and English)

Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?

Inner Child Dolls

art-e-zine Pat Winter Inner Child Dolls

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I found some ‘dolls’ that I find really beautiful: it must be great fun to make them: Crazy Quilt, embroidery, sewing, Shisha stitches, all included.
And looots of fantasie ;-)

 

Links:
Inner Child Dolls

Here at unikatissima:
Paper Crazy Quilt
Crazy Quilt Photo Frame
Shisha Stitch

Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
Entries with the tag ‘sewing’

Sweater Scarf

Spun Magazine Sweater Arm Scarf

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Once I found an instruction on how to make a scarf from felted old sweaters but the website doesn’t exist anymore.
The photo is from the website, click to enlarge.

 

That’s how they did it:

  1. Wash sweaters from 100% wool (mohair works fine, too) with some laundry detergent.
  2. Felt in dryer.
    Felting makes the fabric so dense that it doesn’t unravel when cut.
  3. Cut stripes from the sweaters in the width you want the scarf to be.
    The lengths will vary depending on the part of the sweater where you cut the piece.
    In the instruction they used mainly the arms.
  4. Eventually simply sew the pieces together, whether with a sewing machine or by hand.
    The seam can be used as a decorating element.
  5. The scarf can subsequently be embellished: with buttons, felted flowers, beads, pom-poms, fringes, embroidery and so on.

In fact I would like to have a cardigan-kind garment made with this technique, no scarf.
Therefore I went to several second hand stores to look for wool sweaters but found mostly sweaters from artificial material which don’t felt.
But I stay tuned ;-)


Links:
The original website that doesn’t exist anymore

Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘felting’