Tutorial – little beaded zipper pull

Thursday, 30 April 2009, 10:54 | Category : embellishments, tutorials
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It may be a bit grand to call this a tutorial, perhaps it’s more of a suggestion, a way of prettying up your zip containing creations and adding your unique creativity. It’s an embellishment idea for a beaded zipper pull. I like making pouches, wristlets, purselets, zippys or whatever else you’d like to call them [...]

Tutorial – Fabric Flower brooch

Sorry that this has taken soooo long but here it is: This is really a little origami with fabric, and it works out equally well in paper…. cards… maybe? Requirements: I made my brooch using all the same fabric, but it can look equally pretty if you make the large petals in one fabric and [...]

Tutorial: Yo-yo’s

Thursday, 8 January 2009, 12:43 | Category : embellishments, tutorials
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Happy New Year to you all and I hope you enjoyed Christmas and that Santa was kind. I quite enjoyed the cold, frosty weather over Christmas but I’m thoroughly fed up with the -6 and -7 0C tempertures and the snow of the last few days.  Living on a hill has taken on a whole [...]

A tale of two buttons….

Friday, 4 July 2008, 9:45 | Category : buttons, embellishments, sewing
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Sorry! I couldn’t resist the title. My two little buttons have morphed and this is what they became. The blue one became the middle of a yo-yo which I trimmed with a little ric-rac. I think it looks quite olde worlde, vintage like . Nice simple touch to add to a t-shirt. The little burgundy [...]

Isolating a part of a fabric motif to cover your buttons

Forgive me, bit I’m just a little fixated on buttons at the moment, don’t be concerned – I’m sure I won’t come to any harm but I do absolutely have to share. It is completly possible to create beautiful unique buttons by isolating just a part of a pattern motif of the fabric – but [...]

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