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Cute hat tutorial

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Kanzashi.

How to sewing a hat in 45 minutes

1. Measure your head where you want the hat to rest. My measurement was 22″

Make Rose Scarflet tutorial

Hey here's a post on accessories after a really long time...(I'll accept it that jewelry is much more fun to make). But now faced with an emergency (I need a scarflet desperately) I decided to make one. A re-purposed one.


When a newly bought cami tears, I find it very irritating..The only thing the comes out of it is a dust cloth that you use to clean the showcase glasses once and then you throw it away. But what if it can be made into something else more worthwhile...Playing around with my pink knit cami  I came up with this scarlet that is great to be worn when it is not very cold but still chilly. No machine sewing skills required for this project because I dont have a machine ;)
Materials Required
- Knit fabric (tubular knit). I cut mine from my cami. You could also cut from any old tshirt. Width 7" length 35" totally when cut open at one end. Extra fabric for the rosette (can be a different fabric/color also)
- hand needle and matching thread/ Scissors

There are two parts to this scarlet - the scarf and the rosette. We will do the rosette first. I am doing this rosette to resemble a rose flower that used to bloom in my childhood home. I would be so drawn to it that my mother would sometimes affectionately refer to me as "roja poo"(rose flower) after that particular flower.

Tutorial - Valentine Hair Clips

Last week, when I was fiddling with making my Pom Poms and Hearts Brooch, I made some fabric covered buttons.  I wanted to incorporate them into the brooch.  But after fiddling, I decided they didn’t work.
I had to find another way to use these cute buttons.  And the obvious answer was to make hair clips.  Which, as a mother of twin girls, we can never have too many of.
Here’s how I made them:

kids craft

How-to make a pop-up rabbit doll for the Chinese New Year

^{Abra kadabra}

DIY Fabric Rosettes and More!

Have you been like me and just loved on those adorable fabric roses and wanted to make some of your own? Well today wait no longer! I have no idea if this is the correct way but it worked for me and so I will pass it on to you. FYI ...you will need these lil darlings for our next project too~

DIY Gift Ideas #2 :: Say it with (fabric) flowers...

When I saw these fabric flowers in the latest issue of Marie-Claire Idées, I couldn't put down my magazine fast enough to get started. I made a whole bunch of them the same evening and while I was doing so I was thinking of the many different ways I could use them. In the original project they were used to decorate a seat cover.

3 D Rose

Fold, Fold, BAM! Its pretty

Fab-u-lous Fall Candle

My mom is hysterical - She loves all things sparkly, all things fab-u-lous. She wears sparkly clothes, loves sparkly jewelry and decorates her home with the same affection for sparkle and flare. (But note, she is NOT a girly-girl. My lack of a girly-girl gene was passed down from my mother...)

That makes our styles very different - and tonight - my mom came to help get Bug to and from dance and with her she brought supplies and a vision for thisFab-u-lous Fall Candle.

Make flowers from ribbon and silk

Make flowers from ribbon and silk

Making Christmas tree from beads

Making Christmas tree from beads

Felted Brooch Tutorial

Here's a quick little project that is great for using up scraps of felted wool. If you're a regular visitor here, you know that I felt a lot of recycled sweaters for my work. Atleast 80% wool. Wash it. Shrink it. Cut it up.

This brooch has the look of a peony or maybe a mum. Perfect for spiffing up a hat, sweater, winter coat, tote bag...you name it.

Five Days of Felt

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic winter weekend. I have been so in love with all the felt crafts I’ve been seeing lately so I thought I’d  start Five days of Felt, a whole week dedicated to this wonderful fabric!
First up are felt gift bows! I spotted Jessica’s amazing magazine gift bow tutorial on How About Orange and was so inspired! Her directions are simple and super easy to follow. I ended up using felt instead of magazines and the result was perfect! The only other difference was that I used a hot glue gun instead of glue dots.
I was also able to create a bow broach just by adding a pin-back (found at a fabric store) to the back. I adheared the pin-back with a dot of hot glue and then secured it with a few stiches of coordinating thread. For the how-to details head on over to How About Orange and enjoy!