I have had the wire form from a busted lampshade sitting in a box for a few years, waiting for some sort of project. I thought I might make a new fabric or paper cover, but I just never felt like it.
Then I realized, with a lot of bags of plastic beads and some 20 [...]
I know there are about a million tutorials out there about these little round fabric wonders, but I thought I’d put in my two cents too.
Making yo-yos, like all sewing skills, takes practice to get it down and get your own feel for it. But here are some starting points. First, you don’t need anything [...]
Continuing with the row house doll carrier started here.
Once the walls were all connected, I sewed the “floor” on, so now the shape was like a bucket. Here’s a picture of the whole thing inside-out and upside-down (which is pretty much how you sew it).
Even though I started out with the felt matching the calico [...]
Background: I live in DC and I have a love/hate relationship with the city. When I love it, I really love it, but when I hate it, oh boy…you get the idea. Currently, I madly adore it. I’ve been taking lots of meandering walks around my neighborhood while I run errands, taking pictures to document [...]
As you may have read recently, I’ve been working on Christmas craft show crafts. I thought to myself, what should I use for price tags? Then I had a great idea: to make them out of the free business cards from VistaPrint. I’m sure you could do this with any business card vendor if you [...]
I recently finished a project that I’ve been eyeing for a while, inspired by really neat items from Urban Outfitters: a jewelry stand.
Here are some from UO:
and here is mine:
Back when my partner and I had a craft store in DC, I made this video with MonkeySee.com. It was a lot of fun to do and I got an awesome tee shirt and promotion for my store. However, after browsing Martha’s 62 Ways to Decorate Eggs and Baskets (via How About Orange), I feel [...]
I have been trying here and there to improve upon the fabric flowers created here way back when (I can’t believe it’s already been five months since then). I’m quite pleased with the following prototype and the construction is quite simple.
From the side:
And the bottom:
How to make each petal is quite simple. Cut out a [...]
I’m usually quite blasé about Valentine’s Day, if not adamantly against it or nauseated by it. But I have to admit, it is a great time for crafting, Victorian ephemera, and chocolate. Yesterday, I was a inspired by a crocheted doily (of which I have about 10) from the manufacturer Darice. Every other time I’ve [...]
I just finished a little lunch bag after a few trials and errors. It uses one of my favorite fabrics, a white print with folksy hearts, stars, and daisies in muted blues, reds, and mint green. It has two metal snaps on the side and one snap to keep it closed, a ribbon handle on [...]