DIY Envelope Clutch

DIY Envelope Clutch - Swellmayde

Made these really cute envelope clutches. I found the pattern on swellmayde. I decided to make mine smaller and also sew a chain on it just in case and of course embroider one of them

DIY collar necklace

DIY Collar necklace - The House that Lars built

So I used the template from here a made a bunch of these cute tie on collars in all sorts of colours and with different types of ribbons to use to tie.

Word of warning if you plan to make it beaded like the one  I made be prepared for hours of beading and lots of beads!

Simple is sometimes better ( I suggest you try out their embroided one it looks really cute)

How to make a Tulle skirt

As Tulle skirts are back in fashion and I alway have ballerina envy I made a 4 layered tulle skirt and here's how to make it!
*also read instructions first because I made the mistake of not reading one of the instructions i found online and it turned out I did not understand half of what they wrote so I figured out the pattern instead
**material lengths given are optional, depending on the length you wish to have,your waist size and how many layers you wish to make

Materials:

• 6 m tulle fabric  (I bought 7m as I wanted a lot of underskirts but didn't end up using it all)
• 1,5m lining fabric
• scissors
• tape measure
• pins
• thread (in the colour of your tulle)
• medium elastic or large 
• ribbon (optional) and thread in the colour of your ribbon 

1. Start of by first measuring your waist and the length you wish your skirt to be.
mine was: waist:75cm (add a few extra cm depending how gathered you want it) and length 59cm. (Its wise to add an extra 5 cm as it will be used for the elastic)

2. (cut up the material for the different skirt parts, i cut every 1.50m) Fold your material first in half width then length wise

3.With a simple calculation you can work out the radius for your waist line: Waist measurement  divided by (2x3.14) so 75/6.28 =11.94cm rounded up to 12cm (if you want the skirt to be really gathered add a few more cm's to the waist)

4. Now in the corner where the 2 folded edges meet, measure out the radius, use pins to mark the line, to help you could tie a string to a pen to help draw the curve onto the material.

5. Do the same with the outer line, from where your drew the waist line measure out the length of the skirt. all in all from the corner of the fabric I measured 71cm (12cm+59cm)

6. Now cut neatly along the lines to get something like this

7. Repeat from 1 depending on how many layers you want as well as with your inner lining

8. pin all the layers together

9. With a larger stitch, sew the 4 layers together about 1cm from the edge. Once down grab one thread from one side and start pulling to gather the material to your original waist size, if you cut the waste you have more to gather and if you cut it exactly,you can only gather slightly to not make the skirt too small

10. measure your elastic waistband (stretch it out) and then sew the ends together then pin it loosely to the inside of the skirt waist, place it just below the gathered stitch. Sew the bottom of the band first. Remember to stretch it while sewing!

11. Fold over the material above the gathered stitch to hide and stitch it down, while still stretching the material

Tadaaa its done!
Here's how to sew a ribbon on but that is completely optional

How to sew the ribbon:


When picking the ribbon keep in mind how much you want for the bow at the back, it's always easier to make it shorter at the end then chopping it all of earlier. Also bear in mind when attaching it, it will not stretch with the elastic and so make it harder to get into the skirt this is why I only sewed the front half on and left the rest loose

1. fold the ribbon in half to determine the middle then pin it to the front middle of your skirt.

2. Stick another 2 pins on each other sides to show where you want to stop sewing and leave it loose to be able to tie.

3.Sew the top and bottom edges on from either inside or out (I choses outside so i could see if my stitches were nice and straight)







In the end it makes a very cool skirt

Skirt update

SO small tulle skirt update, Basically done (Woop!) but this is where adjustments come in which I myself have to figure out. A nude coloured pencil skirt still has to be added as an under layer so it isn't see-through and of course at the moment when I spin it all goes very Marilyn Monroe. The waistband isn't tight enough but otherwise i wouldn't be able to get it on without having to put a zipper on it. So I plan to get a pretty ribbon to sew on half way but eave tie-able into a bow on the back. Which will also help hide the imperfections of my stitching so win-win. Ah it will be so unbelievably girly and 5 year oldish but I love was having waaay to much fun spinning in it. 

note to self: get a pair of nice comfy high heels for it and just anyway I feel like I should own a pair of heels being um older and tiny and everything...

ugh such a cheesy selfie and i still take them (because I'm awesome!) 

How to make cool earrings (using shrinking paper)

What you will need:

• shrinking paper ( they come in all sorts of colours)
• fine sand paper
• pens (the ones that don't come off)
• pencils
• a design
• earrings- you can buy different types in hobby shops)
• hole punch
• scissors

step 1 the design

the designs traced over

1. First print out or draw the design you would like on your earrings 
2. If you want to draw on it with pencil, sand paper that bit down. If you want to draw the design on the see threw type of  paper, by sanding it down it won't be see threw anymore.(I didn't sand mine down so i could only use pens)
3. the design should be double the size that you want it to be.
4. leave space when drawing the design on for the hole at the top.
5. If using the see-threw shrinking paper simply place it over the pattern and copy it.
6. Punch the hole and cut out your design leave a small rim to it.
7. place them into the oven on a sheet of baking paper on a tray.
8. don't pre-heat the oven put them in and then turn the oven on to about 125 degrees celsius.
9. (make a test one) stay by them and watch them , they should shrink in around 5 minutes , if you think that they've reached the size you prefer take them out
10. there will be the problem of curling so quickly when you take them out flatten them.
11. then leave them to cool, then simply place them on the earrings 

in the oven

finished pieces 

shrunk