The Freckled Bug: tutorial

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

A couple of "little" projects

I am recuperating from last week's fundraiser madness! My house is in shambles, but I am such a junkie, that I have fabric and a pattern waiting for me on the table. Shameless, I know.

I just thought I'd share a few of the projects I worked on last week. I'll split it into a couple of posts!

So here is part one:

Meet Emma. She is my daughter's American Girl. She has was gracious enough to be my model!

This little sundress turned out so cute! (in my humble opinion!)

I measured how long to make it and then measured the largest part of Emma for the width of the fabric and added 3 inches.

Sew the fabric together to make a tube.

Hem the top and bottom.

Use elastic thread and shir about 6 rows at the top.

Cut 4 pieces of ribbon and sew in place for the straps.

Your "little" project is finished and your "little" model looks so cute!

This was the second dress I made for Emma.

This dress was made from scrap fabric. I bought the ruffled trim since I ran out of scraps big enough and the skirt was waaaay to short. I used some tissue and made a little pattern for the top by placing it on the doll and drawing where I wanted the dress to be. I kind of wung it from there. If anyone is interested in a tutorial, let me know, I will get one made up.

These two little dresses along with a small hairbow for each raised $30 for my daughter's school. I thought they were cute and I am sure I will be making more. Emma was sad to see them go.

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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Crew Cuts inspired tshirts!

Coming from a family of ten kids, my mom taught me well about being frugal. When I was young, I never really knew any different. I just thought it was all the norm. Now as an adult, I am very frugal. It's hard for me to spend a lot of money on just about anything...especially if I can make it myself!

Remember these?

I went back to Hobby Lobby and got more of that stretchy ruffled ribbon on a roll for $1.50 and dressed up some more tshirts. I am bound and determined to make some cute things my older daughter will wear. She's going into the jeans and tshirt phase and all of my cute handmade clothes I've made her are collecting dust in her closet! GASP!

So here are a couple of tees that I came up with after scouring the Crew Cuts website for some ideas.

All you need is a tshirt, your sewing machine, and this "stretchy ruffled ribbon".

Pin the ribbon onto the tshirt and sew it down!

VOILA!

I'm linking up for these parties! Go check them out!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Glittered Easter egg wreath

I have been wanting to make a wreath for my door for ages. We kept our Christmas wreath up almost to Valentine's Day! I was ready for something spring-y! I gave a different wreath a try, but it didn't work out too well, so this is where I ended up. I'm sure it's been done before, but if you haven't seen it, here's the how-to!

You will need some plastic Easter eggs. I got an 18 pack at Dollar Tree. You also need a wreath form, some toothpicks or skewers, mod podge, a paintbrush, glitter, hot glue gun or other glue and some ribbon or fabric. I also used some polyurethane spray to finish it off.

Begin by putting a toothpick or skewer into the egg's little holes on the end. Then paint on the mod podge covering the entire thing.

Next take your glitter and cover the egg. We found it easiest to dump a bunch of glitter into a plastic dish and use a spoon to cover the egg.

(tip: I started to run out of glitter so I mixed a couple of tablespoons of sugar with the glitter and it worked out great! I hope no birds or anything start hanging out on my wreath!)

I had an extra wreath form (also from Dollar Tree) that we stuck the eggs in to dry.

Once we had all of our eggs glittered, we took them outside and sprayed them with the polyurethane to seal in the glitter. (be forewarned, we got glitter everywhere!) While these were drying, I wrapped the wreath form with ribbon. (Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of this step!)

For the last step, I used my hot glue gun to glue the eggs all over the wreath form. I tied some ribbon around the top and hung it on the longhorn!!

I also thought this would make a cute centerpiece on the table. Just leave out the last step and put a candle in the middle of it! Shazam! Sparkly table!

So, Happy Easter Ya'll!

I'm linking up to Gay's party!

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

T Shirt refashion

I just love all of the corsage t shirts! I got a really pretty one from JCrew for Christmas. I have been thinking of how I wanted to make one of my own for a while. Then Jen at Tatertots and Jello refashioned a cardigan! My lightbulb went off. (or on)

I had some of this stretcy, ruffled ribbon that I wanted to do a project with, but never got to it. And then I have all these tired, plain old tshirts, so I decided to give it a whirl.

All I did was pin the ribbon on and sew! On my shirt, I did a zig zag stitch, but on the little one I did a straight stitch. I think the straight was better.

I was wearing mine yesterday, and as I put my little bit to bed, she said, "Mommy, I like your shirt! Make one for me! Now!"

I hope she doesn't get that pushiness from me!

This ribbon sells for $2.99 at Hobby Lobby. Practically every week, they put all of their ribbon on sale for 1/2 off! So I paid $1.50 for it and the tshirts were some we had on hand! What a deal!

I am linking up with A Soft Place to Land for DIY day!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Pizza pan chore board-DIY

My six year old has asked me several times to make her a "chore chart". I've tried, with just some paper on the computer, but we never seem to keep up with them. I have seen the CUTE calendars that people have made using cookie sheets and have wanted to try and make one. Then today, as I thought of merging the two ideas! This is what I came up with!

I started with a pizza pan that I used to use for something other than pizza.

Then, I covered it with some scrapbook paper and added some chipboard letters and flowers.

Notice, I had some of the pan showing on the top and bottom, so I added some ric rac around the outside. Then, I just glued strips of paper with things she needs to do each day onto magnets. I added the two little frames with "to do's" and "done" so that she could move the chore from to do to done herself! She helped out a little bit and thought that was fun. You could do this on a cookie sheet too and put more than one child on it! I just used all stuff I already had around the house, so I didn't have to put out any more money!

Now, I'm gonna put that kid to work.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Ribbon covered hanger tutorial

This is a really easy project to fancy up some hangers for a gift or a special outfit! It's a nice touch to add to a piece of clothing you may have sewn for someone as a gift as well.

These cost very little to make. You will need:
1. Plastic hangers (I used a children's size) If they have the little hook on them, twist or cut it off.
2. Tape
3. Glue gun
4. Plastic grocery bags, I used 4
5. Ribbon of your choice, about 3 yards for children's hanger

Starting at the neck of the hanger, tape a corner of the bag to the hanger and start wrapping it all the way around. You will need to make sure to make it kind of bulky, but keep it as even as possible.