Monday, May 26, 2014

Pastry Cloth and Fabric Dyeing with Freezer Paper

Sooooo... I did sewing project 3 before completing project 2.  I needed to step away from the maternity skirt, and I really need to do a little research on heming. 

Anyway, today I decided to make the pastry cloth from the Pinterest pin on my "sewing" board. I'm super stoked about how it turned out!  Hopefully it'll be as awesome when I actually use it!!!

So here are the tutorials I used to complete this project.

Pastry Cloth tutorial

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2014/04/how-to-make-a-pastry-cloth-and-why-you-need-one.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+MakeItAndLoveIt+(Make+It+and+Love+It)


Freezer Paper Fabric Dyeing tutorial

http://www.thinkingcloset.com/2013/08/12/keep-calm-onesie-with-freezer-paper-stenciling-silhouette-winner/

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Mother's Day Gift Bag

With Mother's Day around the corner.  I decided to, yet again, have a little fun with my Silhouette Cameo and some vinyl!

Go to unoriginalmom.com for the Cut File I used.  I had to edit it a little since neither of Gwen's grandparents goes by "Grandma". 
Check out her blog while you're there.  I found a bunch of great ideas!


This machine was going to town on making those cuts, while I got to sit back and wait for it to finish.  Then I had the joy of removing all the unnecessary vinyl.  UGH!  I actually had to recut one.  You really have to be carefully how small you go with text if you are using vinyl.

Anyway.  Here is the finished "Gift Bag"
I think they came out pretty nice!