I find these roses from fabric or paper most beautiful, even without wreath!
And it seems that they are easy to make, which does no harm! ;-))
They should look great for jewelry, too, for a ring or earring e.g.?!
If they’re not exactly your cup of tea simply look for flowers from fabric or flowers from paper ;-)
Links:
Recycled Roses Wreath Tutorial
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘jewelry’
Entries with the tags ‘flower’ and ‘fabric’
Entries with the tags ‘flower’ and ‘paper’
fabric flower
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:
- Wash sweaters from 100% wool (mohair works fine, too) with some laundry detergent.
- Felt in dryer.
Felting makes the fabric so dense that it doesn’t unravel when cut.
- 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.
- Eventually simply sew the pieces together, whether with a sewing machine or by hand.
The seam can be used as a decorating element.
- 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’
I like yoyo’s, but only recently I tried to make one. And I find it cute.
It is made from shiny polyester fabric and embellished with a little crocheted flower and some embroidered beads (I hate to have polyester on my skin, but I like it for pins and the like, because it is so shiny).
Links:
Yoyo Projects (with explaining pictures)
How to make a Yoyo (with explaining pictures)
The links don’t work anymore, you can find the information here now:
Yoyo Projects (with explaining pictures)
How to make a Yoyo (with explaining pictures)
The Photoleporello Fantasia is a handmade leporello with five double pages and several matching bookmarks.
Mixed Media
ca.10 x 15 cm
given away
The cover is decorated with a crazy quilt made from different handmade papers with embroidery, metal embellishments, funky yarn and little beads.
The first double page contains two photo frames made from real fall leaves and bark.
The first bookmark is embellished on one side with handmade paper with real flowers and on the other with flower patterned paper.
The second double page contains two photo frames made from raffia and fabric on handmade paper with fibers.
The third double page contains two photo frames made from handmade papers, embellished with funky yarn and hand embroidery.
The second bookmark is partly made with handmade papers and embellished with different yarns.
The fourth double page contains two photo frames made from fabric, embellished with wire and fabric elements.
The fifth double page contains two photo frames made from handmade papers, embellished with funky yarns and elements from handmade paper.
The third bookmark is made from patterned paper and embellished with different yarns and raffia.
The back side is decorated with a handmade fabric collage.
