I bought these tiny little crochet flowers from Etsy seller CraneCrochet and sewed them onto ponytail holders for the girls. That’s about all I made today. Off to try some sewing before the exhaustion overcomes me.
Flower Pot Pincushion
I thought I’d try to make one of the little pincushions in a flower pot that I’ve seen lately. It requires no sewing! Ha, but you probably won’t want to make one of these unless you like to sew. I added a little felt flower (like the hair clips I wrote about in my last post) and a button. And I used this Liberty of London fabric again. There’s still some left, so you’re sure to see it more!
Supplies:
- small flower pot
- fabric scrap
- polyfill stuffing
- hot glue gun
- rubber band
- Cut fabric about three times the width of the top of your pot. My pot was 4″, so I cut a 12″ square.
- Place some polyfill in the center and wrap loosely with a rubber band.
- Continue stuffing with polyfill (as much as you possibly can, and then some).
- Wrap rubber band around a few more times to tighten it.
- Adjust fabric evenly and try it out in the pot.
- Glue all around the inside of the pot, about an inch from the top. Quickly stuff in your fabric.
All done! If you make one of these, be sure to post a photo over in the Make it Monday Flickr photo pool. Check out these flower pot pincushions from Betz White for some more inspiration.
Felt Hair Clips
More hair accessories. Whew, those are bright! I sewed some more of these flower hair clips for the girls (with the embroidery machine). This is a design that I created last year for my Etsy shop.
And then I took my owl design and shrunk it down. But I think I need to try another color for these, because this is just about the color of their hair. Since I am lazy, I just glued these onto the clips, which seems to actually work pretty well.
Etsy Finds Friday
Blue Leona pillow, $22 from Norajane.
Large Artist Sketch Case from Henry and Zoe, $35.
Vintage Fabric, $20 from Sparkle Power.
Zippered Linen Pouch, $14.50 from Pear McGee.
Sparrow Bird Wire Sculpture, Sparkflight, $40.
Pleated Bag, $70 from Seabreeze Studio.
Abstract Crochet Room Rug, $3,700 from Handmade Pretties.
Retro Modern Pet Bed, $42.99 from Like Kittysville.
Half Yard of Japanese Fabric, $5.50 from Karaku.
Knitted Blankets
I’m not much of a knitter. I started this blanket for my younger daughter about three years ago. The unfortunate thing is that I used #6 needles and cast on 200 stitches or something ridiculous. The blanket was left in an odd long rectangular shape, so I cast off, cut it in half (by sewing a zig-zag stitch over some bias tape before cutting) and made two blankets for the girls, backed with this Liberty of London fabric. My kids are three and five, but still sleep with their blankies, so here are two more. At least this project is done!
These turned out a bit wonky, so I’m definitely not one to give instructions on how to sew knitted material to cotton fabric. But there’s a nice blog post from the purl bee addressing the subject.