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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Shrink Plastic Geometric Pendants Tutorial!
I recently became obsessed with the idea of layered, geometric necklaces. I wanted to make some for myself, but I don't have the supplies and equipment to make metal or wooden jewelry. And then it hit me - Shrinky Dinks! Of course! Here's how I did it...
Get the full tute after the jump.
Get the full tute after the jump.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Workshop: Fabric Printing, Transferring Kids' Drawing to Fabric
I had a lot of fun hosting my very first class at The Makery in Anaheim, CA! If you missed it, I'll be teaching that Baby Booties & Soft Rattle class again on Sunday, November 18th from 11am-1pm.
Next week I'll be hosting a super fun workshop showing you how to transfer a child's drawing onto fabric using a combination of freezer paper printing and fabric markers.
I love this technique for a lot of reasons. It is a great way to transfer a design if you don't have access to a screen printer. And the result is long-lasting and doesn't crack, peel and fade, or have obvious edges like when you use print-at-home and iron-on ink jet transfer paper. Kids love to wear their own designs, but these also make great gifts for the grown-ups in a child's life.
Huck and I made this Boba Fett t-shirt for Steve a couple of years ago, and it remains in great condition and is still one of his favorite shirts:
Another project we made was this tote bag for Huck's former piano teacher. This one is just fabric marker without any freezer paper coloring:
For the workshop, we'll start with a demo where I will show you the technique from start to finish. Then you'll get a chance to play with the different supplies and materials, trying out freezer printing and test out different brands of fabric markers on scrap fabrics. Once you're ready, we'll transfer your design onto the fabric surface of your choice. That can be a shirt, onesie, bag, pillowcase, or whatever else you can think of!
So if you live in the Orange County or L.A. area, come check out this fun workshop! It is a perfect, easy project for giving to the people in your child's life this holiday season!
SIGN UP ONLINE
Wednesday, November 7th from 7pm-9pm (that's next week!)
Sunday, December 9th from 11am-1pm.
The fee is $30 for the 2-hour workshop, which includes most of your supplies. Please be sure to read the details of what you'll need to bring to class. Original art may be damaged, so please bring a copy if you're concerned!
I have more workshops coming up, too. We'll be sewing baby booties, making stocking stuffers, and talking about packaging. Sign up to receive email alerts for upcoming craft and sewing workshops.
Next week I'll be hosting a super fun workshop showing you how to transfer a child's drawing onto fabric using a combination of freezer paper printing and fabric markers.
I love this technique for a lot of reasons. It is a great way to transfer a design if you don't have access to a screen printer. And the result is long-lasting and doesn't crack, peel and fade, or have obvious edges like when you use print-at-home and iron-on ink jet transfer paper. Kids love to wear their own designs, but these also make great gifts for the grown-ups in a child's life.
Huck and I made this Boba Fett t-shirt for Steve a couple of years ago, and it remains in great condition and is still one of his favorite shirts:
Another project we made was this tote bag for Huck's former piano teacher. This one is just fabric marker without any freezer paper coloring:
For the workshop, we'll start with a demo where I will show you the technique from start to finish. Then you'll get a chance to play with the different supplies and materials, trying out freezer printing and test out different brands of fabric markers on scrap fabrics. Once you're ready, we'll transfer your design onto the fabric surface of your choice. That can be a shirt, onesie, bag, pillowcase, or whatever else you can think of!
So if you live in the Orange County or L.A. area, come check out this fun workshop! It is a perfect, easy project for giving to the people in your child's life this holiday season!
SIGN UP ONLINE
Wednesday, November 7th from 7pm-9pm (that's next week!)
Sunday, December 9th from 11am-1pm.
The fee is $30 for the 2-hour workshop, which includes most of your supplies. Please be sure to read the details of what you'll need to bring to class. Original art may be damaged, so please bring a copy if you're concerned!
I have more workshops coming up, too. We'll be sewing baby booties, making stocking stuffers, and talking about packaging. Sign up to receive email alerts for upcoming craft and sewing workshops.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Eat Make Grow Thursday #13
Welcome to this week's Eat Make Grow Blog Hop where you share what you have been eating with your family, growing in your garden or making with all your creative impulses. Eat Make Grow is a collective link party that is shared across three blogs and runs every Thursday-Tuesday. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all three sites! Eat Make Grow is a way to share with many people posts about your domestic doings, whether that’s growing veggies, hosting parties, sewing, mixing up cleaning supplies, or trying out a new recipe. We want to learn about it! Every week, we will feature the most popular link, and one chosen by the the host.
Your Hosts:
Foy from Garden. Cook. Write. Repeat.
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Bats in the Belfry! Halloween Hair Clips Tutorial!
Huck is studying bats in school. He absolutely loves telling me everything he knows about them, and on Wednesday he brought home a book he checked out from the school library all about bats. The book lists common misconceptions about bats, one of which is that they, "sometimes get entangled in women's hair." That made me laugh out loud, and so I decided that I needed some bats entangled in MY hair for Halloween. I came up with this super simple no-sew tutorial for fabric "bat" hairclips. I made mine colorful because black bats in almost black hair just don't stand out very well. But if you have lighter hair, these would be super cute in plain black.
Get the full tute after the jump.
Get the full tute after the jump.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Eat Make Grow Thursday #12
Welcome to this week's Eat Make Grow Blog Hop where you share what you have been eating with your family, growing in your garden or making with all your creative impulses. Eat Make Grow is a collective link party that is shared across three blogs and runs every Thursday-Tuesday. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all three sites! Eat Make Grow is a way to share with many people posts about your domestic doings, whether that’s growing veggies, hosting parties, sewing, mixing up cleaning supplies, or trying out a new recipe. We want to learn about it! Every week, we will feature the most popular link, and one chosen by the the host.
Your Hosts:
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Foy from Garden. Cook. Write. Repeat.
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Foy from Garden. Cook. Write. Repeat.
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Monday, October 15, 2012
First Workshop: Baby Booties & Soft Rattle Gift Set!
Last Friday, I announced my first schedule of classes at The Makery! The first of those classes is a Baby Booties & Soft Rattle Workshop scheduled for next Thursday, October 25th from 7pm-9pm. These baby booties were some of the very first projects that I learned how to make. When I was pregnant with Milo, my nesting instinct manifested as crazed baby booties sewing. I made bunches and bunches of them.
As a beginning sewist, this is such a satisfying project. Once you get the basics down, there are an endless variety of fabric combinations and ways to personalize them through applique, embroidery, fabric printing, and adding embellishments. I've made a lot of other booties, but this style is my favorite both for it's diversity, and because they stay put on kicky baby feet!
Here's Milo modelling a pair I made for him when he was just 7 teeny tiny months old! We'll also be making a super cute softie rattle with chewy tags for those little drooly, toothy babes!
So if you live in the SoCal area, and you want to get your feet wet with an easy sewing project, sign up for one of my workshops! If there's a baby on your holiday list this year, this is a perfect, easy project for giving.
SIGN UP ONLINE
Thursday, October 25th from 7pm-9pm(that's next week!)
Sunday, November 18th from 11am-1pm.
Only six spots are available per class, so sign up before it fills up! Or win a free class by entering The Makery's Free Class Giveaway going on this week!
I have more workshops coming up, too. We'll be transferring kids drawings onto fabric, making stocking stuffers, and talking about packaging. Sign up to receive email alerts for upcoming craft and sewing workshops.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Workshop Schedule!
Listen up, SoCal! I'm so excited to announce this schedule of upcoming workshops and classes I will be teaching at The Makery, 423 S. Brookhurst Street, Suite L, Anaheim, CA 92804.
Class sizes are limited, so sign up before they fill up! You can read more about each class, and register by clicking on the date it is offered. And more details about each class will be posted here soon!
Questions? Requests for future workshops? Email me at sadsilver@gmail.com.
Orange County, Southern California residents! Sign up to receive email alerts for more upcoming craft and sewing workshops!
Class sizes are limited, so sign up before they fill up! You can read more about each class, and register by clicking on the date it is offered. And more details about each class will be posted here soon!
Questions? Requests for future workshops? Email me at sadsilver@gmail.com.
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Booties & Soft Rattle Gift Set Thu 10.25.12 7pm-9pm Sun 11.18.12 11am-1pm Fee: $30 This class is for beginning sewists with some experience using a sewing machine. We will make a soft pair of fully lined baby booties for pre-walkers and a matching soft rattle. In addition to straight sewing techniques, we will learn about sewing around curves, top stitching, ease stitching, interfacing, using elastic, adding lining, making your own iron-on appliques, and how to neatly close a soft toy. |
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Fabric Printing: Transfer Kids' Drawings Wed 11.07.12 7pm-9pm Sun 12.09.12 11am-1pm Fee: $30 In this class, we will use freezer paper and fabric marker techniques to transfer a child's drawing to a fabric surface. We will learn how to accurately transfer original artwork onto freezer paper, make a one-time use stencil out of freezer paper, paint onto the fabric and accurately transfer linework using fabric markers. We will talk about paint choices and how to interpret a child's design into our finished piece. |
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Creative Packaging + Gift Wrap Sun 11.18.12 2pm-4pm Sun 12.09.12 2pm-4pm Fee: $30 In this class, we will learn techniques from start to finish for creative and professional packaging and gift wrapping. We will learn how to tie the perfect bow, make tissue paper flowers, gift tags, itty-bitty envelopes and more! There will be demonstrations on lettering, material and color choice, embellishments and more. Students will go home with the various gift toppers and tags they made during the workshop, as well as hand-outs with step by step instructions detailing what we learned, and new techniques to try out at home! |
Orange County, Southern California residents! Sign up to receive email alerts for more upcoming craft and sewing workshops!
Go Go Power Rangers! Semi-Handmade Costume!
Now that the boys are past the toddler stage and are full-blown kids with minds of their own, they have zero interest in letting me choose their Halloween costumes. I try gently guiding them in a creative/artsy fartsy direction, but it's no use! So this year, Huck wants to be a black ninja. Which is, like, the most boring Halloween costume of all time! I mean, it will be super cute, I'm sure, but for my creative impulses, it's not very fun. Huck won't even let me embellish his costume with a golden dragon or fierce tiger. He is firmly set on being an all black ninja. So black sweats tied up with black cord it is...sigh. I like a little more challenge. So when Milo changed his mind from being another ninja, to being the red Samurai Power Ranger, I actually got excited. I'll take what I can get!
The mask is obviously store-bought, but I made the top and belt. There are still a few things to add on. His white gloves are in the mail right now, and I want to cover the firefighter symbols on his rain boots with the Power Ranger Samurai logo. But I feel satisfied that there is some level of handmade-i-ness (that's a real word, by the way. Don't look it up!).
The mask is obviously store-bought, but I made the top and belt. There are still a few things to add on. His white gloves are in the mail right now, and I want to cover the firefighter symbols on his rain boots with the Power Ranger Samurai logo. But I feel satisfied that there is some level of handmade-i-ness (that's a real word, by the way. Don't look it up!).
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Eat Make Grow Thursday #11
Welcome to this week's Eat Make Grow Blog Hop where you share what you have been eating with your family, growing in your garden or making with all your creative impulses. Eat Make Grow is a collective link party that is shared across three blogs and runs every Thursday-Tuesday. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all three sites! Eat Make Grow is a way to share with many people posts about your domestic doings, whether that’s growing veggies, hosting parties, sewing, mixing up cleaning supplies, or trying out a new recipe. We want to learn about it! Every week, we will feature the most popular link, and one chosen by the the host. This week, your host is Marigold.
Your Hosts:
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Foy from Garden. Cook. Write. Repeat.
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Foy from Garden. Cook. Write. Repeat.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Special Delivery
I want to take a quick break from craft blogging for a moment to tell you guys about a really wonderful thing my friend has done.
Melanie and I met when our oldest children were just a few months old. We joined the same local mommy Meetup group and we hit it off right away. Our kids did, too, and Huck and Melanie's oldest daughter, Kat, are still great friends today. I remember the day she told me she was pregnant with her second baby. It was June of 2008, and we were at the local chili cook-off. I was 40+ weeks pregnant with Milo, trying to entice him to come out by walking around and stuffing my face with spicy food. I was so excited for her and her husband, and selfishly hoping she would have a boy this time so our second kids would grow up being good buddies.
Melanie and I met when our oldest children were just a few months old. We joined the same local mommy Meetup group and we hit it off right away. Our kids did, too, and Huck and Melanie's oldest daughter, Kat, are still great friends today. I remember the day she told me she was pregnant with her second baby. It was June of 2008, and we were at the local chili cook-off. I was 40+ weeks pregnant with Milo, trying to entice him to come out by walking around and stuffing my face with spicy food. I was so excited for her and her husband, and selfishly hoping she would have a boy this time so our second kids would grow up being good buddies.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Gift Wrap with Embroidered Name Tag!
September was the busiest month for birthdays. Probably because of all of those rockin' holiday parties! What that means for me is that I get to wrap lots and lots of gifts this time of year. This is one that I wrapped up for our little niece.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Eat Make Grow Thursday #10
Welcome to this week's Eat Make Grow Blog Hop where you share what you have been eating with your family, growing in your garden or making with all your creative impulses. Eat Make Grow is a collective link party that is shared across three blogs and runs every Thursday-Tuesday. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all three sites! Eat Make Grow is a way to share with many people posts about your domestic doings, whether that’s growing veggies, hosting parties, sewing, mixing up cleaning supplies, or trying out a new recipe. We want to learn about it! Every week, we will feature the most popular link, and one chosen by the the host. This week, your host is Foy.
Your Hosts:
Foy from Garden. Cook. Write. Repeat.
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Miranda from Pocket Pause
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Workshops!
Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! Workshops!
Orange County, Southern California residents! Sign up to receive email alerts for upcoming craft and sewing workshops instructed by Marigold of Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!!Monday, October 1, 2012
Goofy Gift Wrap!
This was a goofy gift I wrapped up for a friend's birthday. Huck put on up this mask at the toy store and it made me laugh and laugh, so I had to get it. This is a great time of year to find cheap, silly masks, and they slip right around a package perfectly!
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