Wednesday, October 22, 2014

You Can Do It: Sew Your Own Bedding

You Can Do It: Sew Your Own Bedding

sew bedding
What better way to customize your bedroom than to create your own bedding? Whether your motivation is to personalize your space with your own style, make bedding out of killer fabrics, or to save money, these tips and tutorials will help you get started.
  1. Make a pillow cover from a button up shirtAdd style to your bedding with a pillow or two made from button up shirts. This tutorial from Apartment Therapy takes you through the entire process.
  2. Make your own sheets on the cheapFind practical tips for acquiring flannel and other fabrics in this article from Daily Finance. They also have instructions for making your own sheets, starting with an easy top sheet and working your way up to a fitted sheet. The most practical tip is that most bolts of fabric are 42 inches wide, which makes three lengths sewed together just wide enough to have a Queen sized sheet.
  3. Sew a fitted sheetUse this quick guide from About.com Sewing to measure your mattress before you start sewing. It provides step-by-step instructions to sew a fitted sheet, complete with photographs of the process.
  4. Make a Duvet CoverFrom Design8Sponge, step-by-step instructions to sew your own duvet cover. Choose a fabric, follow these instructions and decide how you want to fasten the cover. It's as easy as that.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Girls knickerbockers, long shorts. Cottage chic. Size 3, 4, 5 comfy shorts. Eco

Little Anoushka

Girls knickerbockers, long shorts. Cottage chic. Size 3, 4, 5 comfy shorts. Eco

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Your girl will feel like a pretty little lady pottering around in these knickerbockers! So comfy, easy to wear and an easy wash and wear number. Gorgeous for the beach, garden, dressed down or dressed up!Size 3 - 5 knickerbockers, baggy shorts. Gorgeous recycled cotton fabrics. Nursery fabric - rocking horse, duck, rabbit, teddy and floral cotton with coordinating pocket.My model is a slender 5.Please refer to the following dimensions -44 cms around waist - unstretched.38 cms approx long.28cms around leg - unstretched.
Models own top. Please contact me for a custom order or see -
http://www.madeit.com.au/detail.asp?id=601200
http://www.madeit.com.au/detail.asp?id=599596

Will ship to outside Australia. Please contact me for a quote.
Thank you and please do have a look at my other original items.
Postage includes registered post within Australia. Will happily combine post for multiple items.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Underwear for kid

Underwear for kid

Panties for kid
You creative mom should make handmade pants for your daughter.


Materials

  • Stretch cotton fabric
  • Lace
  • Ribbon
  • Elastic
Cutting

Pattern

Print pattern on A4 paper 3 times.
Then cut out. The pieces are front, back and crotch.
There are 2 sizes of hips. 55cm and 65cm.
I recommend to make bigger a little than your child.

Process

The front and the back are continued.
It's very comfortable and easy to make.

Cut the cloth with seam allowance.

Stitch the crotch to the outside of the cloth.
Crotch sewing

Sew the sides.
Zigzag stitch at the seam allowance.

Fold and stitch the hem of the thighs and waist.
Stitch a lace around the waist. It's gorgeous if you make lace double.
Stitch a ribbon.
Pass the elastic.
Girl's underwearBack







The left is for mother.
Child has bigger hips than mom's? No. This is an elastic magic.
Mom and chibi

When making kid's clothes, the important thing is comfortableness.
Children have soft and delicate skin.
Choose a high-class elastic, and don't make it tight.
Cheap lace may be itchy. Attach the lace to outside.

For little boys, refer to child boxer and baby briefs.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

SEWING BACK-TO-SCHOOL: BUTTONS AND BUTTONHOLES!

SEWING BACK-TO-SCHOOL: BUTTONS AND BUTTONHOLES!

This post is part of the Sewing Back-to-School series, 30 days of helpful sewing articles by guest bloggers. Feel free to check out the original Sewing Back-to-School post for schedule and previous posts!
Under the Veranda quilt pattern
Amanda Murphy designs fabric for Robert Kaufman, including Ambrosia, Swiss Chocolate, and her newest line, Veranda, available now! She also has several amazing quilt patternsI tested 1 (almost finished the 2nd!), so I can personally say that the instructions are very thorough and the diagrams extremely helpful!
Hi everyone! I’m so glad to be guest-writing at Sara’s wonderful blog. Sara has been gracious enough to test-sew my patterns in the past and I’m lucky enough to be able to return the favor. Thanks, Sara!
My topic is buttons and buttonholes. Don’t let them intimidate you! These fancy computerized machines do all the work for you. Even basic machines today usually come with a buttonhole attachment.
A common use of buttonholes in quilting is for the back of pillows. When you have an extra block or two (or three or four) it is always fun to make a coordinated pillow. It is also a great way to practice quiltng motifs before you sew on the actual quilt!
We are going to be sewing panels for the back of a pillow that feature three buttons and looks like this when finished…

Cute, right?  (I can’t show you the front of the pillow as it is for a magazine in the not-too-distant future.)  A buttonhole closure on the back of a pillow always turns it up a notch and gives you a nice, professional look.
You will need:
  • a piece of backing fabric 1″ larger in width than your finished pillow size and 8″ larger in length
  • 3 buttons
  • 1 buttonhole attachment
  • 2 (2″) strips of fusible interfacing a little longer than your pillow width
For the first step, figure out the finished size of your pillow. Add 1″ onto the width and 8″ onto the height.  Cut a rectangle of backing fabric this size.  (I used 20″ pillow, so I cut a 21″ x 28″ piece of blossoms and berries backing fabric from my Veranda line.)

Subcut this rectangle into a top and bottom piece.  You’ll make this cut about 1/3 down from the top, narrow edge of your rectangle.  (I cut my large rectangle into a 21″ x 10″ piece and a 21″ x 18″ piece.)  The specific sizes don’t really matter, but make sure your cut is parallel to the top edge of the fabric, or you will end up with a tilted buttonhole panel!

Turn under the two adjacent edges (the ones you just cut) 1/2″ and press.

Turn under those same edges again 2″ and press.  Slip interfacing strips into fold and press to secure.  Keeping the fabric wrong side up, go over to your machine and topstich the panels 1/8″ away from the original fold.  This will secure the interfacing within the panel.

Next, place your button in your machine’s buttonhole attachment.  There are so many great buttons on the market to use too! These are handmade green swirly buttons fromJennifer Jangles.

Now take a piece of test fabric and draw two intersecting lines to indicate your starting place when you begin to sew.  Lining up your buttonhole attachment with your mark, sew a test buttonhole on your scrap fabric.  You dont’ have to interface this test strip, but use two layers for stability so that it doesn’t get pulled into the machine.
Note the white chalk marks that indicate the spot I started the buttonhole.

Meaure the size of the buttonhole when finished.  This picture is a little fuzzy, but mine is about 1-1/4″ across, which meant that the center of the buttonhole is 5/8″ to the left of the point I started to sew.  Later in the process, when I make buttonhole placement marks, I will need to offest them by this measurement so the buttonholes will end up centered.
Open up the test buttonhole.  To do this, place a pin across one end of your buttonhole as shown below.  Make sure the pin goes OVER the fabric at the end of the buttonhole.  Now take your seam zipper and open up the buttonhole.  The pin will prevent you from cutting into the edge of your stitching.

Test the size of you buttonhole by inserting a button…

Now you are going to sew buttonholes onto the upper (smaller) panel.  First, draw a chalk line 1″ from its folded edge.    With the folded edge closest to you, make an intersecting mark in the center of the panel.  Remember that 5/8″ measurement we took from the test buttonhole, that reflect half its size?  Make another mark that distance to the left of  the center mark.

To mark the placement for the two buttonholes on either side of the center buttonhole, measure 3-1/2″ out from each side of the mark you just made and mark two more intersections.

Bring the panel over to your sewing machine.  Keeping the folded edge to YOUR RIGHT, sew each buttonhole.
Open the buttonholes with your seam ripper.
Place the top (buttonhole) panel over your bottom panel with the folded panels on top of eachother.  The top folded edge should just overlap the seamline on the bottom panel.  Pin the two panels together and baste down the panels to hold them in place.  Open up the buttonholes a bit and make a little mark on the bottom panel to indicate button placement.  You are almost done!

Trim your pillow top to finished pillow size plus 1/2″ so that you can accomodate a 1/4″ seam allowance.
If you are planning on finishing your pillow by binding it as you would bind a quilt, center the pillow top and over the backing panels WRONG SIDES TOGETHER.  Trim the backing panel to the same size as the pillow top.  Pin and baste layers together, using a 1/8″ seam allowance.  Apply binding.  Remove basting.  Sew on your buttons and you are all done.

If you prefer a simpler finish, center the pillow top and over the backing panels RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER.  Trim the backing panel to the same size as the pillow top.  Pin layers together and sew all arond the pillow, using a 1/4″ seam allowance.  Remove basting.  Clip corners.  Turn pillow right-side-out and press.  Sew on your buttons and enjoy your pillow!
For more free tutorials on things like continuous bias binding, mitered corners, and other fun things, visit my blog atamandamurphydesign.blogspot.com.
Thanks again to Sara for letting me guest-host this blog entry!
Happy sewing!
Amanda

8 THOUGHTS ON “SEWING BACK-TO-SCHOOL: BUTTONS AND BUTTONHOLES!

  1. I have never done a buttonhole out of just plain fear and screwing up my Project. But just like your other Tutorials Amanda, this is perfect and soooo easy to understand. Thank~You for such a Inspiring Post!!
    Huggs, Nancy
  2. Hi Sara,
    I couldn’t leave without saying Hello to you too!! Love this colorful Blog!! I am now following you on GFC, and I Liked you on FB. I look forward to your future Post!!
    Huggs, Nancy
  3. These instructions are so clear! This is a great tutorial for something that was pretty intimidating to me! I’ve sewn for years, and made many a zigzag stitch button hole on kids’ clothing, but now I am ready to try my new machine and the attachment!

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