Tag: Sewing

Fabric Scrap Scarf

craftstylish Fabric Scrap Scarf

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Again a scarf from scraps ;-)
But this time it’s not only about scraps nor scarves: It’s about this technique, where you arrange fabric pieces and/or yarns on water-soluble sheet, where you make it ‘unslippable’ by spraying it with fabric glue where necessary, where you cover it with water-soluble sheet again and then sew more or less wildly in all directions to connect all elements with each other.
After rinsing it (thoroughly!) you get a more or less delicate fabric that you can use as scarf like on the photo, but you can also make a top top top or a one-of-a-kind vest one-of-a-kind vest poncho from.

There is even a book that shows how you can mix this technique with felting.

I really must do this once ;-)


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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 ;-))


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

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

Clothesline Sewing – A Fabric Bowl

CraftStylish Clothesline Sewing-Sew A Fabric Bowl

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After having presented clothesline crochet and clothesline knitting I have now ‘clothesline sewing’ ;-)

The point here is to take a cord and at the same time cover it with fabric and coil a basket from the whole thing just as with the ‘real’ basket coiling.

I find the little baskets absolutely cute, but I have a sewing machine so old that it doesn’t even have a zig zag stitch and I won’t do this by hand! ;-)


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Clothesline Sewing – A Fabric Bowl (How to Sew a Fabric Bowl)

via: craftster: Coiled Fabric Bowls!
via: craftster: Rainbowl! Rainbow Coiled Bowl and Coasters

Here at unikatissima:
Clothesline Crochet
Clothesline Knitting or Filled I-cord
Coil a Basket

Wrap Pants

craftster Easy Breezy Wrap Pants

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Isn’t it great: I admired those wrap pants for ages on various artist markets but somehow I could never figure out how to sew them.
And now I discovered a complete tutorial at craftster :)
The thread is quite long but it’s worth to read it because they’re giving lots of tips, tricks and ideas.

If you like it, too, please respect her request not to compete with her because she wants to get a little money with them and even so she wrote liberally a tutorial and presents it (without even charging money!) (quote: “I decided to share this tutorial despite the fact that I’m currently making these to sell, so please use this tutorial for your own personal purposes.“, you can find the text below the last photo of the tutorial).


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At craftster: Easy Breezy Wrap Pants Tutorial

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 ;-)

 

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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 ;-)


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The original website that doesn’t exist anymore

Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘felting’