…compilation of tutorials
Do you need a planter? Do you still have old jeans?
Then you can make your own blue jeans planter :)
Links:
Blue Jeans Planter (Blue Jean Planter)
via: Blue Jean Planter
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Entries containing the word ‘planter’
Entries containing the word ‘jeans’
Doesn’t this birds wall art look most beautiful?
It is actually much larger :)
Links:
Birds Wall Art => the original site doesn’t exist any more, I found the picture at: Top Ten Tuesday — February 21, 2012 – #3 Bird Paintings for Year-round Feathered Friends
via: Birds & Tree – give students the paper with the branch already
I’ve presented the embellished fabric beads before, the funky fiber beads are similar – and just as beautiful :)
Links:
Tutorial: Funky Fiber Beads
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Embellished Fabric Beads
(Click photo to enlarge)
Recently I needed a birthday card and that is the reason why I played around with stencilling again ;-)
I wanted to have a negativ stencilled feather and sketched and cut therefore a feather.
Here I’ve made my first tests already.
I covered my feather with light brown chalk and smeared the chalk with my fingers outwards.
This way I got white areas around my stencil which made the quill of my feather much too broad for my liking (see arrow).
Therefore I cut two half-stencils and used them.
It worked great!
Another advantage of this half-stencil method is the fact, that the really narrow quill of my feather can’t slip or even tear anymore.
I glued a cut-out feather shifted on my stencilled feather and because I thought that something is missing, I embroidered some lines with golden thread.
I used a running stitch back and forth as I always do.
That’s how the inside of the card looks – I left it this way and wrote on the right side of the card.
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And that’s how the finished card looks: I liked it ;-) and the adressee liked it, too :)
Admittedly the card looks still a little bumpy here because I fixed the chalk with hair spray. After everything was (really!) dry I put it under a heavy book and afterwards it was beautifully flat again.
Links:
Instruction on how to make the Running Stitch (English)
Instruction on how to make the Running Stitch (Vorstich) (German)
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Entries with the tag ‘stencil’
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
A great idea again: customize accessories to your clothes with spray paints.
This way you can make i.e. comfortable shoes for dancing matching your ball dress ;-)
Or follow the ideas of Buy Nothing Day and revamp a by now shabby handbag to match your newest coat.
You also could have coloured one of your boots in red and fill it with some sweets ;-))
Links:
Spraypainting Accessories
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Tie Feathers Dress
Buy Nothing Day
This is not my first freeform entry ;-))
In her blog entry Carla describes in detail how she’s making a freeform crochet scarf – from the choice of the yarns to the finishing. She only uses the most basic crochet stitches (chain stitch, single stitch, double stitch and triple stitch) and doesn’t use no scrumbles (those single pieces as e.g. at the freeform needlework that must be joined by sewing or crocheting).
I really have to try this! :)
Links:
Freeform Crochet Scarf Tutorial
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