A month or so back I wrote about how I wanted to start making things. I could link to the post but i can't be arsed. Anyway, I made things.
First of all, I made reusable wrapping paper out of cotton fabric and a ribbon. Et voila:
It's an elephant print fabric with a cow print ribbon. Because I like mixing up animals. Or more likely because I'm shit at finding matching things. It's a rectangular shape. I'm quite aware that the wrapping paper clashes horribly with the duvet cover. I don't care, I couldn't be arsed to find somewhere else to photograph it.
Here's a close up of it:
Neat huh? I had a friend help me do it. It was pretty simple. It involved folding over the edges twice (twice! who'da thunk it!), pinning them, ironing them them using the sewing machine to hem it.
Example of my hemming. I can't work out how to rotate the picture.
There was a fancy technique to do the corners so they didn't end up really large and bumpy. This technique involved cutting triangles out of part of the corners but I can't remember what it's called or exactly what we did.
The corners where the sewing machine was going over the folded fabric from the side of the folded bit worked fine. The other corners where you run the sewing machine over the edge of the folded fabric didn't work so well as it bunched up, which you can sort of see here:
Sewing the ribbon was also pretty easy.
It's quite a large piece of fabric so will wrap many things. If you wrap a small thing you can use hairbands to tie the ends of the fabric into a cracker shape, which was an unexpected bonus.
I want to make a shirt out of this fabric but I am told that shirts are really difficult because of boobs and shoulders and backs and waists. Bummer.
I also made a double sided apron for my niece:
Eek. On the plus side, my niece is 2 and a half so she won't care about the quality of stitching.
And that is me getting crafty. In the new year my friend is going to teach me how to make a skirt. I want to make a Captain Marvel one. Blue with a yellow star and some red stripes on. I want a gathered skirt a bit like this but maybe rounder. No idea how easy that is to make though. I shall wait for advice from my friend. Or just do whatever pattern my friend comes up with. We are both in agreement that A line skirts suit nobody. My friend is a great teacher and I'm really grateful for her help (thank you Christina!) because I would have had no idea how to even make an apron (turns out they are really simple) without her guidance. And now I feel (sort of) comfortable with my sewing machine.
I still want a Captain Marvel dress, a bit like this one but with sleeves. Maybe in a year or so when I am more skilled. Or maybe I should buy a base blue dress and customise it myself.
First of all, I made reusable wrapping paper out of cotton fabric and a ribbon. Et voila:
It's an elephant print fabric with a cow print ribbon. Because I like mixing up animals. Or more likely because I'm shit at finding matching things. It's a rectangular shape. I'm quite aware that the wrapping paper clashes horribly with the duvet cover. I don't care, I couldn't be arsed to find somewhere else to photograph it.
Here's a close up of it:
Neat huh? I had a friend help me do it. It was pretty simple. It involved folding over the edges twice (twice! who'da thunk it!), pinning them, ironing them them using the sewing machine to hem it.
Example of my hemming. I can't work out how to rotate the picture.
There was a fancy technique to do the corners so they didn't end up really large and bumpy. This technique involved cutting triangles out of part of the corners but I can't remember what it's called or exactly what we did.
The corners where the sewing machine was going over the folded fabric from the side of the folded bit worked fine. The other corners where you run the sewing machine over the edge of the folded fabric didn't work so well as it bunched up, which you can sort of see here:
It's quite a large piece of fabric so will wrap many things. If you wrap a small thing you can use hairbands to tie the ends of the fabric into a cracker shape, which was an unexpected bonus.
I want to make a shirt out of this fabric but I am told that shirts are really difficult because of boobs and shoulders and backs and waists. Bummer.
I also made a double sided apron for my niece:
This involved lots of measuring and cutting out of material and wooden spoons to turn tubes of straps inside out. And lots of ironing.
We opted for velcro for the neck strap and the waist bands so she can have fun and control over taking it on and off.
I had to hand stitch some off the velcro for the waistband on and I am terrible at handstitching because I have no patience. See:
Eek. On the plus side, my niece is 2 and a half so she won't care about the quality of stitching.
And that is me getting crafty. In the new year my friend is going to teach me how to make a skirt. I want to make a Captain Marvel one. Blue with a yellow star and some red stripes on. I want a gathered skirt a bit like this but maybe rounder. No idea how easy that is to make though. I shall wait for advice from my friend. Or just do whatever pattern my friend comes up with. We are both in agreement that A line skirts suit nobody. My friend is a great teacher and I'm really grateful for her help (thank you Christina!) because I would have had no idea how to even make an apron (turns out they are really simple) without her guidance. And now I feel (sort of) comfortable with my sewing machine.
I still want a Captain Marvel dress, a bit like this one but with sleeves. Maybe in a year or so when I am more skilled. Or maybe I should buy a base blue dress and customise it myself.
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