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Friday, July 22, 2011

Friday Made It Finds

Here are my Friday MadeIt Finds for the week. Thought i'd spruce things up with some funky accessories

Daisy Flower Keyring key FOB White Black Hot Pink

Miss Tree Creations

Crocheted Beret Hat

ShazzasKnits

Turquoise Fingerless Mittens Wrist Strap and Recycled Button

melpaton

The Lattice Belt with retro knitted brooch in Teal Blue

mymardigrasknits

Crocheted Iphone Case

moonflower

Thursday, May 26, 2011

I'm into working with polymer clay and i keep making items and have all these shaper etc that are lyeing around so i thought it was about time i do something with them. After experimenting with what i could make seeing as i mostly make earring i decided to have a go at a necklace which was fine until it came time to put the clasp on. This was not an easy task for me i was trying to use crimp beads but they are apparently no good with beading thread. After much pondering and many hours of frustration i decided to used knots to finish off my project, here is the final piece.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

My Creative Space

This week in my creative space i have been working on a couple of new things after finishing my dress, my bag and another top last week. This week i started on creating another bag of the same kind just different colour combinations. I have used pink colours yet again as shown below. So far i have managed to cut out the fabric get the interfacing on and i have almost finished the pockets.

Also this week i have started making a new dress, the pattern for this style of dress is shown below. The fabric i have decided to use for this is a linen fabric with a bemsilk lining in blue. Hopefully will have colours up next week to show you.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

My Creative Space

I have been working on a few things this week, done a little bit of bag making, cross stitching and i finished a dress that i have been making for quite some time now, ran into a few problems with it so had to make some adjustments.

Here is the final product of the dress that i have been working on, it has taken me a while to make i had to go back and make some adjustments to the dress because i am not a very tall person i found the midriff section was too long therefore the dress did not fit properly as it was not in proportion to the rest of my figure. After making these adjustments i finally managed to get the buttons and the final touches done on it last weekend.

I have also recently got into doing some bag making and have discovered that i actually really enjoy it and plan to do some more of it. Here is the final product of my first ever bag, not bad for a first attempt, i think it worked out quite while. Had a few problems putting the gussetts in but now know how to do them for next time.

In the rest of my spare time i also love to do crosstitching and needlework, at the moment i am working on a cat cross stitch and will have photos up of that as i progress through it some more.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Creating a gusset in a bag

I am currently making a bag and i found it quite an easy task until i got to the point where i had to insert a gusset. I was really not quite sure what a gusset was as i had never completed one before so i looked it up in my books and on google but couldn't really come up with anything that would help me complete the task. Next i went to the forums in which case somewher there pointed out a link to me of how to go about completing one. For everyone who may need some help completing this here it is.

http://craftydaisies.com/2007/08/24/how-to-square-bags/

Here is how i completed the task.

Here is my basic outside of the bag where i have sewn both the main panels together all around the bag.

Next align the right side seam with the bottom side seam forming a triangle as shown above.

Once you have done this you can chop a little off in order for the bag to sit flat.

Here is the final product showing the square corners on the bag, there are seams coming out from the corners that look a little like darts, however they are hard to see from the photo, you need to be close up in order to see them.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Friday MadeIt Finds

Well it's that time of the week again and what better way to kick start the weekend with todays madeit finds. Enjoy and hope you all have a great weekend.