A Birthday gift
I was out of time and out of material, but I still managed to make this little envelope for my step-mother’s birthday.
It’s really simple and cute. Inside I wrote 祝你生日快乐！ (happy birthday in Chinese)
:3
Felt Flower Tutorial
It started when I wanted to customise a moleskine notebook as a gift, and after that it escalated to commissions. I use felt of various shapes and colours to create 3D drawings or plushies to glue or sew on skin notebooks.
This is the tutorial for a flower.
The materials used were: felt of many colours, thread, glue (in this case super glue) and a skin notebook (But you can put the flower anywhere you want, even on your hair!)
I cut two flowers of the same size, the yellow and the orange one. Then a pink one, with slightly pointed tips. The pink one is a cm smaller than the other two. After that I cut two green leaves, four white “sticks” and two circles. The darker one is bigger than the lighter one, but it’s not bigger than the centre of the pink flower part.
All together they should look like this. The order is: Yellow flower, Orange Flower, Pink flower, white sticks, orange circle and yellow circle. The green leaves can be sew last. You can cut the shapes in any size you wish, as long as you are happy with the result :)
First things first. Pink a thread to sew around the yellow flower. This thread should be several shades darker than the flower. I picked red. You should sew all around the flower, always shoving the needle back on the side it came from! (Look carefully at the picture)
Once you’re done it should look like this. Do the same for the Orange flower and the Pink flower.
In the end you should have three complete flowers, and if placed on top of each other (like so), you should be able to see a bit of each. DON’T SEW THEM TOGETHER YET!
Now, tricky part. Carefully, so you don’t rip the felt, sew the white “sticks” on the Pink flower, they should all come together in the centre of it. I used a pink thread, because the flower is pink, and I didn’t need the thread in “sticks” to have that pop out effect a darker thread would have.
Now comes the time to sew all the flowers together. How? With the orange circle. I shaped the circle to also look like a flower, but you can keep the shape or change it to your taste. Grab a very dark thread (but not black) and sew the circle to the three flowers. You should come out the other side of them, and make sure the thread is tight enough to keep them together.
See? This is the back part. The brown thread comes out this way, connecting all flowers together.
Now, grab that last circle and using a light thread, sew a little “X” on it, also connecting all flowers together.
The little green leaves are super simple. Remember what you did with the flowers? Do the same to these. Don’t sew them together.
I decided to sew mine on the yellow flower. Use any thread (since you are not supposed to see this one at all in the finished product) and sew the green leaves to the flower leaves. Just make sure that there is another layer of flower to cover the stitches. (in this case the orange and pink flowers cover them)
See what I mean? Sew them anywhere, just make sure there is something covering them.
Here you see that if you lift the pink flower there are stitches connecting the green leaf to the yellow flower. This is fine, as long as you can’t see them when you’re done. After this you just glue the finished flower where you want it.
Ta-dah! It’s done.
Use any colour or shape you like for the flower, and have fun!
A little Christmas gift for my cousin.
I’ve bought fabric for a new dress!
And some lace too!
And here is my idea of the dress!
As soon as I get to work I’ll start posting pictures!
So, as an alternative for a wallet+dress, I’ve decided to make my own garter flask pocket. I’d seen one floating on the internet before, and thought, why not?
It’s handy, practical and cute. Plus, easy to make! Not advisable for long dresses, unless you want every horn dog looking at you when you raise your dress for it.
So, onward with my Apple Picker dress
I’m talking about that Bustier+Maxi Dress with the Paned Sleeves and Belt Bow. I can’t find a Paned Sleeve pattern, so I had to make one myself. It’s awful, but as soon as I have my equipment back I’m sure I can draw a new, better one. Here are the first patterns.
Types of Sleeves
If you happen to know of any sleeve type not listed here, please leave me a message on my ask box!
