Fabric: elastic bookmark

My mom asked me what can she do with wide sized elastic tape and I had search up and down for creative usage beside making it a elastic waist skirt, and I found this quite useful!

What you need are:

Fabric, elastic tape, sewing machine

With this elastic bookmark, I have no more worried my bookmark slipping out when I throw my book in a bag, no need to make dog ears to mark the spot~

See the tutorial in Make it and Love it!

Tailor Cut for YOU!

From today till further notice, we are having a service called "Tailor cut for you!"

Some times we only wish to make one or two felt craft as gift but to do that, we need to buy a lot (in different colors and sizes etc). At the end, we might ended with a lot of felt access. With this services, you save all these messy, let us help you to save some budget with getting just enough felt for your need.

How it works? Let see the illustration below:

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Recycle: Paper plate crown

Found balance after having a party? Not sure what to do with the remaining paper plates? Well, this is a good idea for kid's craft!

Recycled yogurt bottle as gift basket

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Felt: Cookies

Cookies play food for young kids in play kitchen is one of the most welcome tutorial you ever have. Some mothers who start sewing for their kids begin their sewing journey with this type of play food cookies.

What you need to prepare before you start sewing?

Scissors

Felt pieces (various kind of chocolate/ brown colors/ beige/ cream color/ pink etc)

Needle

Threads (which suits your felt color)

Some stuffing (poly fill or wool)

Get ready for the lesson? Let's learn this tutorial here prepared by Bugs Bites Play Food.

Felt: Kit Key chain

The materials are from felt kit I bought from a DIY shop, I just need to prepare a pair of scissors and I can start making the key chain.

There was a  small glue stick given in the pack but I did not use it. For those who wants to know how to melt the glue stick, you can easily get a candle or lighter and heat it up. It is so tiny, so when you heat up the glue stick, please be careful. I had substitute the glue stick with UHU brand glue, it works well too~

Feel free to drop me message if you have any question about this picture tutorial.

Happy sewing~

Gorgeous Gift Wrapping Ideas

Found this sharing on web and I think they are great ideas for gift wrapping http://images.containerstore.com/medialibrary/pdf/tips/gorgeousGiftPresentation.pdf

What you need for before you start to wrap a gift or present?

• Suitable gift box
• Wrapping papers
• Scissors or roller cutter
• Ribbons
• Double sided tape or Transparent Scotch Tape
• Stickers
• Strings
• Handmade tags

Pom Pom Ribbons

Recycle: Shrinky Bracelet

I was looking for this shrinks tutorial long time ago and I am lucky today to find it in the internet.

The material is from recycle plastic box such as salad container or bread container. Look for plastic marked number 6 in the recycling triangle.

Other tools you need are:
markers (light colors and black)
scissors
hole punch
toaster or oven (preheated 250 degree F)
polyurethane (optional)

Click here for the tutorial by Michelle Dupuis.

Natural Toy: Fish

This was a very good idea for natural play, you can make one at home too~

This idea was presented by a Chinese Waldorf practitioner, 

she had made a lot of nature toy out from branches.

This nature toy creator basically make her toys from the tree trunk near her house. 

Those unwanted branches after tree trimming were fully utilised :)

Colorful Mobile for Home Deco

Looking for ideas to decorate your dinning room for mother's day special occasion? Let's try this tutorial. The wonderful colors can cheer up the environment.

Have a blessed mother's day celebration :D


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Materials needed are:

• Vellum paper
• Sewing machine
• Fishing weights
• Cutter
• Artist tape (for hanging)

Felt: Simple Bowl

Sometimes you find there are so many things on your desk and often you are not too sure where and when to keep them cause from time to time you need it.

B-line has shared with us a tutorial on the making of felt bowl and I think it will be pretty good organiser for your desk or even as toy basket~

What you need are:
Good color combination of felt cloths
Ruler
Scissors
Maker/pen
Sewing machine
Pins

Personally from my experience, if you want to make a small version for tiny things like earrings, you can always sew it rather than machine it~ anyway, happy trying~

Recycle: Luggage Tag

Today we going to discuss how to make a recycle travel tag/luggage tag from recycle card holder.

Sometime when we purchase certain products, we tend to get a simple two sided card holder and normally we dunno what to do with it. I bet most of us will have more than 2 cards in our wallet, so what can we do with the 2 empty pocket? Well here is a good suggestion, especially if you going for travel.

Let's look at the tutorial here.

What you need to prepare are:

1. Card holder which to be re-purpose
2. Paper, images from magazine, cloth (yeah, you can use cloth too)
3. Glue
4. ribbon or string
5. sew machine

Felt: how to keep your threads?

People like me always have problems keeping threads when making crafts. How do you overcome this problem? Let's look at this tutorial written in Korean. No worry how to understand what's the content, look at the series of photos which illustrate the process.　

Materials you need:
A paper to draw the template
Some felt
as usual scissors, needles ^^

Ok, let's go to the thread organiser tutorial.

Felt: Needle Book

At all times when i do my craft, I always have the needles every where. I know this is not a good practice but I cant help. Finally I make up my mind to make myself a needle book and resolve the issue. Now my needles have a home :)

Make a needle book is not a huge project. It can be as simple as making a name card holder. The main differences are, you need to add on few more felt pieces in between to make it a book~

Get yourself ready with:
*Felt for cover
*Matching button
*Coordinating felt for pages
*Scissors
*Matching thread
*Sewing machine
*Additional felt for embellishing cover
*Fabric glue for embellishments (optional)

Let's look at this felt tutorial prepared by Little Bird Secrets.

Felt: Flower using hot glue

As per the title, this tutorial is an quick and easy one. With a pair of scissors, hot glue (or any other type of fabric glue), and of course the felt pieces, you can make one flower in 20 minutes time!

Let's click here for the tutorial prepared by Blue Robbin Cottage.

What you can do with this felt flower? You can make it into different sizes and turn it into:
1. Flower hairband
2. Felt flower corsage
3. Fridge magnet
4. Hair pin
5. Embellishments
6. Ribbons for present
7. etc..

Felt: Roses

A tutorial in Korean but it is picture illustrated, I am sure you know the steps as I do ^^

Materials needed:
Red and white felt, Needle, Scissors, Trace paper, Pen, Magnet, Cloth pin, Strings

Felt: Cuff

Hola! Finally I am back to post tutorials after such a long break :)

To begin with this year tutorial sharing, let's look at felt cuff. What you can do with this tutorial?
wrist cuff as accessories?
napkin ring?
place holder?

Lola Nova has some ideas for you! What you need to prepare are:
a pair of scissors,
some colorful felt pieces,
needle,
buttons,
colorful threads
and lastly more interesting ideas~

Lola Nova's wrist cuff tutorial

Felt: 迷你帆布鞋

Source: 兩天作一天用

簡單又可愛的小品
這個帆布鞋相信有些朋友已經有看過或做過了
當初看到就蠻喜歡的
這裡禮拜就做一做PO上來

附帶說明的
因為是做成有內外兩色
所以這邊作法會跟一般看到的不同
也比較複雜一點

至於單層布版本大家可以在GOOGLE

搜尋"帆布鞋 吊飾 "就能找到很多喔

Last minute Christmas Decoration

10 days countdown to Christmas day, I am sure most families had their Christmas trees and decoration ready. Somehow, at this very last 10 days you wish to have some Christmas atmosphere at home, let's follow some of these tutorials and make over your home.


Christmas tree paper ornament.

Of course before we make our very own ornament, we need to get a Christmas tree from hypermarket. ^^
Then get a few scraps of paper, a pair of scissors and sewing machine.Click on the photo see the instructions.

 

a paper christmas tree ornament

Then get some felt scraps and string to make dove ornament. Click on the photo to learn more.

felt dove ornament tutorial

Website: Canon Creative Park

Do you know that Canon Inc has a creative park website where you can get templates to build your own 3D buildings, make calendars, photo frames, cards etc?


Feel free to visit this website and have fun with printing your creativity!

click at the picture to visit the website.

Website: BillyBear4Kids

Found an interesting finger puppets instructions website by BillyBear4Kids, the tutorials have included the patterns, hope you can enjoy making your own puppets while telling stories to your children.

Enjoy~

Click at the picture to link to this website.


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Finger Puppets Patterns & Instructions for Kids

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Plastic: Waterproof Fabric Shower Cap

Is not easy to find a shower cap design that you like, but now this problem has resolved. Following the instructions created by Maggie, you can easily make one for yourself or as special gift for your love ones.

The tools and materials you need are:

• 2/3 yard of your favorite cotton fabric
• 2/3 yard of Iron-On Vinyl
• 1 package extra-wide bias tape
• 18-20 inches of 1/4 inch wide elastic
• coordinating thread
• sewing machine
• rotary cutter and mat
• pen, pencil, string and dowel
• safety pins

For detailed instructions, please click here.

Happy sewing~

Felt: Jelly Fish

This tutorial was prepared by Checkout Girl. Click here to read the tutorial details.


Materials:

small pieces of felt in white and pink (or the jellyfishy colors of your choice)

a bit of stuffing

a five(ish) inch piece of ribbon for hanging

Tools:

sharp scissors

pins

pencil

sewing machine or needle and thread (in pink and white)

printed templates (below)

Felt: Christmas Ornament

Here are some tutorials felt ornaments inspired by vintage glass baubles by Lupin, click at each caption to see the original tutorial post.

 Felt Ornament How-To # 2: Baubles

How To: Vintage Felt Baubles

Other felt Christmas ornament tutorials by Lupin:

Felt Ornament How-To #3: Christmas Puddings

Felt Ornament How-To #1: Stars and Hearts

How To: Felt Candy Cane Ornaments

Fabric: Recycle Fabric Flower

Simple easy tutorial by eloleo.

What you need are: fabric, scissors, thread, button, needle and a small piece of felt.

Click here to see the flower tutorial.
Click here to print the template.