So now that the leotard is here and covered (Read about the leotard here) I can move on to the fringing! The first very exciting bit! Here are the colours of fringing that I got, I am very pleased with how well the colours go together. I bought 15cm tactel fringing from DSI and Chrisanne, it was reasonably pricey, but I… Read more »
So following on from my posts about inspiration, design and colour schemes, I actually went and bought the first part of my latin dress! The underlying leotard. The Leotard: This comes from american apparel and cost about £20 I think. I could have got it for much cheaper if I had gone for a white leotard, but initially I didn’t plan… Read more »
A while ago I said that I had started another quilt project, well this might have taken the back burner a bit during the summer. But I have got it back out again and sewn some of the squares together to make a small knee sized quilt. It is going to get bigger as I make more squares for it,… Read more »
Ok so here we go with how to make the stencilled trousers. 1) Collect Supplies. make sure you have all your supplies, see the previous post for a list of these. 2) Make Your Stencil. If you are using a pre cut stencil you can skip these steps. I made my own stencil out of a sheet of plastic from… Read more »
I am now the proud owner of some fabric paints with which to complete my patterned jeans. I have also tried out some stencilling with these paints. I’m not sure yet how complicated my pattern is going to be, I am half tempted just to go with big polka dots. Im quite excited to get started on this. Have any… Read more »
A slightly more unusual project for me this time. Which could be quite difficult. A friend of mine is having a Pokemon themed 21st birthday. So I am making myself and one of my friends some costumes. His Costume: Vaporean My costume: Rapidash So this will be some experimenting with papermache and interfacing… Slightly challenging but I hope it will… Read more »
Well here it is… I tried to take photos along the way to make a tutorial of how to recreate the bunting jumper. I hope the instructions will be good enough for you to follow. First things first, decide what materials you would like your flags to be made out of. Most of ours were made out of scraps of… Read more »
Well this is a little sneak preview of a tutorial that will be coming along soon. We found some men’s jumpers on sale in Primark. But decided to refashion them a bit. So here’s what we did. So cute now! Will put up a tutorial soon showing how we did it, and hopefully some other jumper transformations as well! =)… Read more »
Update: Currently having some major issues with google deciding that it doesn’t want to display many of the hosted images, like the ones in this post. We’re hoping it will resolve itself soon. But in the meantime you can view the images on our facebook album (and you could even like our page if you’re feeling especially wonderful) Fingers crossed it… Read more »
In line with my plan to sew a number of items for a Spring/Summer collection here is the first set of plans of what to sew: Shorts in flowery material, Pattern: still to find; Purple Gingham Sorbetto; Lace top, Self drafted Pattern; Blue/black Paisley material, Self drafted long shorts. WIP blue/white floaty dress, Simplicity 3785; Orange, Black, Teal & cream Sorbetto with modified front;… Read more »
