PS I Made This
Share great title, great book. Part designer DIYPart fashion Part lifestyle inspiration guide. I counted 27 projects in this book. All are practical and with easy (obvious) to follow instructions. Here is a sample of a project: How to Make a Fancy Ruffle Shirt (Upcycling a plain boring white t-shirt) Get Inspired Not [...]
Valentine Heart Wreaths
Share Well-illustrated Tutorial To Make Rag Heart Wreaths as Valentines Gifts or Decoration By guest writer Lilana “Hello, Fine Art Craft Guild readers! I’m the “Lilly” in LOVD, Lilly Of the Valley Designs. I’m a hardly-at-home-stay-at-home wife and mom, retired rocket scientist, jewelry-maker, project seeker, and optimist do-gooder, and daily blogger at FeelLOVDeveryday. [...]
Curly Grosgrain Ribbons for Valentines Day Wreaths
Share Something nifty today: Curly grosgrain ribbons! So cute! I happen to fancy doing this today. Besides making darling wreaths with them, curled grosgrain ribbons are ideal to embellish a bunch of creative projects I’m working on. You need them too? How to Curl Grosgrain Ribbons The traditional recipe of baking curls [...]
Make a Recycled Dryer Sheet Envelope
Share Great Idea: Make your own envelopes for keepsakes from used dryer sheets. Jennifer from Sunny Vanilla executed this creative idea that was the brainchild of Paula Spahr. Let me show you her works of art: How to Make Your Own Envelopes Step-by-Step Tutorial Just a few steps to success [...]
DIY Leather Belts … w Tassels
Share Just posted how to make tassels from scratch & from remnants, when I spotted a wonderful tutorial on how to make easy darling leather belts with tassels. Such a fashion statement! source photo & how-to: Organized Living Solutions .
Tassels, Fun Handmade Home Accessories
Share : shabby chic tassels like these are handmade home accents that transform a house. This tassel is 100% recycled, and made of remnants of a sheer curtain & a shirt sleeve; a tiny bit of pre-used ribbon; and a broken bead spacer for the top. The white ribbon from which the tassel hangs [...]
Howto: Bolster Pillow with Romantic Print
Share Pin It This handmade romantic bolster pillow is so authentically French. It looks like the most sophisticated, delicate hand embroidery. Yet, Nan, from ‘You Could Make That’ showed us how to make this so-French pillow by simply printing the design onto fabric. Easy-to-make accessory for a romantic bedroom!
Contemporary Hexagon Pillows :: Free Sewing Pattern
Share : this hexagon designer pillow pattern reads like a nature mosaic. Something soulful about handmade pillows that have such attention to painstaking detail. It’s an exquisite sewing pattern and it’s free. By centering 6 identical petals, the master seamstress team at Sew4Home has orchestrated yet another winning design. They share the sewing [...]
Felt Ruffle Rosette Pillow Pattern
Share Tired of snow, rain or otherwise gloomy winter weather? Cheer up. This happy orange pillow tutorial will bring you into a good mood again. Dazzling ruffles are fast to produce on this easy-as-pie pillow. The tutorial :: Felt Rosette Pillow Step-by-step Instructions 1. cut circles 2. fold them twice and [...]
Christmas Stocking as Holiday Pillow
Share Just a quick tip to repurpose your excess Christmas stockings that you might have been gifted over the years as holiday pillows. Aren’t they fun? How to Make Your Own Christmas Stocking Pillow No sewing machine required, just fill them up, and close them with a few stitches (or if you’re really [...]
Gift Bags Made from Fabric
Share : DIY idea after my own heart: wonderful design, easy, colorful + environmentally sound, i.e. gift bags made from fabric by Toni from Design Dazzle. Pretty reusable Christmas wrapping. They look fabulous under the Christmas tree and can be used year after year. It takes less than 15 min to make one and when [...]
Anthropologie Cascading Ruffle Skirt
Share JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS God is generous. That’s what I’m thinking when friendly folks with fashion drafting skills share freely, and give us a gorgeous skirt design from Anthropologie. (So, I’m thrilled that Shams from ‘Communing with Fabric’ has come into existence in the world in San Francisco, and has been ever-so-kind [...]
Getting Kapok
Share How Much Kapok Do You Need ? Depending on the exact measurements you’ll choose, for a zafu meditation pillow like this, you will need approximately 2.5 lbs. of kapok. Where to buy quality Kapok? At Carolina Morning. I’m excited to announce our new affiliation with Carolina Morning. The folks [...]
Why Kapok in Zafu Meditation Pillows
Share Pin It Last New Year, I posted a tutorial on how to make your own Zafu Meditation Pillow, as meditating is a wonderful New Year resolution. To sit comfortably while you meditate you really must have a zafu. If you haven’t made one of these pillows yet, now is the perfect time [...]
DIY Fun Earwarmers with Flowers
Share Pin It : Quick Christmas Gift. This cute woolen ear warmer is a quick sewing project that will can be completed within half hour or so. It’s one of those crafts/DIY projects that you’ll inspire you to make a couple, so give some away and make one for yourself. This Winter, keep your ears [...]
Sew a Wild Scrappy Pillow
Share : a unique quilting pattern. Quilting may sound kind of tame, however, with Alisa Burke, quilting changes tack and sails the winds of adventure! Look what she did…. Step-by-step Fabric Painting, Sewing & Quilting Instructions 1. Hand stamp & hand print your own fabric. That is: make your own stamps with [...]
Anthropologie’s Kitchen Decor (Santa Monica)
Share Pin It I love wandering through Anthropologie. Do you? The creative input of a visit is like flipping through 17 lifestyle magazines and half a dozen groovy design books, all at the same time. Yes, I was lucky to spend quite a bit of time in the Anthropologie shop in Santa Monica, LA [...]
Halloween in Hollywood
Share Pin It: First set of wonderful photos of stunning and outlandish Halloween costumes. Hollywood does it. Even the major was in a terrific cowboy costume. Kid-friendly photos here, despite the many sexy outfits there, at…. … one of the world’s largest Halloween celebrations: the 2011 West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnival on Santa Monica Boulevard [...]
Rug from Recycled Sweater
Share I have this thing for recycling cable sweaters. I’m sure you all seen this recycled wool sweater lamp, which I just adore. It just looks so warm and cosy. Now, here’s a DIY tutorial to make yourself a matching rug for that chair near the window. Direct recycling aka very-eco-green designer Diane Durkes pulled [...]
Thanksgiving Dinner Place Cards
Share Let’s plan ahead. This Thanksgiving I would like to have a number of people over for dinner. As this is a bit daunting to me, I usually like to have all the small details, such as the artsy & crafty decorative elements as well as the main dish to be made well ahead of [...]
Bed Skirt with Pockets – Free Sewing Pattern
Share For readers in bed, there’s a solution….. a place to put your glasses and your book, when your night stand is full… or if you wish to keep things uncluttered. Anyhow, I think these pockets are so so handy for lip balm, clean socks for freezing feet, … as well as anything romantic. Click [...]
Back-to-School Pleated Skirt
Share Love this skirt: So Fall, so girly, so back-to-school. Best of all: easy to make, while sophisticated. Enjoy this free sewing pattern and step-by-step instructions which you can find here at sewmamasew.com
Back-to-school Small Bag Patterns
Share Back to school is this great ‘season’ to get back organized, not only in aspects of school life, but also in other areas. For this reason, to me, Fall is one of those time that it’s extremely useful to create a bunch of new bags, of different shapes and sizes in matching fabrics so [...]
Back-to-School Backpacks, Tote Bags, Lunch Bags Patterns
Share School bags are one of the most essential school supplies out there. And from personal experience as someone who studied for many years, it is a really good investment to have a couple of different style bags laying around: one for light days, one for heavy book days, one for gym, one for personal [...]
Back-to-School with Easy-to-Make Friendship Gifts
Share Time to celebrate going Back-to-School with flirty gifts that create smiles on the first day of school and help continue friendships. Fun Fashion Friendship Gifts that are Easy to Make Sure, there is the good-old classic friendship bracelet (click link to learn how to make it). But let’s go beyond the simple ‘threaded [...]
French Bird, Dog & Bunny Pillows
Share This is a re-post of my prior French pillows article. Readers wrote that the article link hadn’t been working for them, so I’m showing the French Pillows ideas (w link to pillow sewing tutorial) again for you. BTW. If you have enjoyed this 2 weeks worth of showcasing contemporary French interior design, decorating and [...]
Hip Zipper Butterfly
Share A fun project to do with kids: We recycled an old zipper into a darling butterfly brooch. Step by Step Instructions on How to Make a Zipper Butterfly 1. Sniff through old cloths or recycled textile supplies to find a 22 cm long zipper. Pick a color you want, or if [...]
Fruity Lunch & Picnic Bags
Share These fun fruity lunch and picnic bags are insulated and zippered. Fun design ideas, Found in Paris. Each bag can hold a few sandwiches and a small drink. Picnic Bag As big as two giant tomatoes, holds everything for a picnic of 2 (or 3). Matching [...]
Sophisticated Zafu Pillows in Paris
Share Those of you interested in ‘new age’ type DIY/Crafty projects, sure have seen my Zafu meditation pillow pattern. The prior version was in a simple, calm misty forest green; the pillow well-designed; the pattern illustrated and detailed. Yesterday, just off the Champs d’Elysee, Paris, I spotted a ‘happy’ version of this zafu pillow. All [...]
French Pillows w Bird Collage & Bunny Portrait
Share Today I have for you beautiful & unique French Bird & Bunny pillows, spotted in hip-groovy Marait, Paris. Bird Pillow If you’ve made our ‘bird with umbrella’ pillow, you could make this French bird pillow as a companion. Techniques: To make a pillow like this, however, you must first create the whole pillow [...]
