Day 2--Fabric Flower Corsage

Mothers Day Corsage by The Object Project:

Attach with corsage pins, saftey pins or glue to headband or bag for a really cute look :)

15 Days of Flowers......Day 1

Ahhh....February, the month full of love and flowers.  This month, I've decided to create 15 days of flowers.

Everyday, (time permitting) I will post a tutorial on how to make different types of flowers....whether they be knitted, crocheted, and made out of various types of material...so we begin:

DAY 1: The Knitted Flower

Don't know how to knit?--no worries this is one of the best sites to learn from: Knitting Help , and of course there is always YouTube videos.

Materials:  (perfect for scrap yarn!)
Yarn in your color of choice
Size 2 knitting needles
Needle & Thread
Button or your choice for center of flower

 

The Pattern:

Cast on 49 stitches

ROW 1: Purl

ROW 2: K1, *YO, K1, S1, K2Tog, PSSO, K1, YO, K1; Repeat from * to end of row.

Repeat Rows 1 & 2, 2 more times ending in Row 2.

Row 7: Purl

Row 8: P2Tog to the last stitch, Purl (you should have 25 stitches)

Row 9: K2Tog to the last stitch, Knit (you should have 13 stitches on your needle)

Cut yarn, thread through all the stitches on the knitting needle, pull up really tight and knot and secure.

 

Attach your center:

 

Use it however you choose!  I chose to attach it to an alligator clip and then attached it to a headband:

and now admire your piece of work!  Here is the final piece on my daughter :)

  

  

Easy and fast and a great way to use up scraps of yarn :)

Patchwork Twirl Dress Winner!!

Pick a number from 1-47 I asked my husband......"16"  Little did he know that he had just selected the winner for my Patchwork Twirl Dress.

...Totally random....the winner is:

Chrystal said...

Wow. In this trying economy, what a wonderful gesture for you to give away a free dress!! This dress is ADORABLE! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE patchwork. I cannot sew a straight line, so I appreciate all the work put into patchwork designs. Boutique clothing is just awesome. I love when girls are able to have clothes that aren't mass produced and that give them a chance to have something that is original. I have two girls. A 10yo and a 10m old (yes, you read that right! The Lord decided our family wasn't done). I would be ecstatic to have either of my girls in this dress. My hopes are that you would choose my comment, but to be honest, your choice will be a blessing for whomever may receive it. Thank you for your kind heart. ~Chrystal

January 28, 2010 11:30 AM

 What a great comment too :)  Thanks Chrystal, please send me an email with your information and I will create a dress for one of your daughters---- simpelodyer@yahoo.com

It's Giveaway Time!

It's been too long since I hosted a giveaway, I decided to make this a 2'fer.  Good things come in 2's :)

I was approached by Leslie of Mamma Tortilla to participate in their first giveaway and create "something cute".  So many things fall in my "cute" list, but the very first thing that came to my mind was to make a little doll perfect for a little girl that included a change of outfits along with a matching baby quilt.  Now the doll being pictured has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, but no worries, I've offered to create a personalized little cutie for the special little girl in your life if you are the winner---granted your little one does not have Dark Brown or Dark Brown eyes, so this is a giveaway for everyone!

Head over to Mamma Tortilla's blog to enter to win a doll and for more information regarding this giveaway.  While you're there, check out their blog, it's so cute and full of great tutorials and ideas for you to make and make that to-do list of yours even bigger :)


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WAIT......THERE'S MORE!!!!
2nd giveaway details......

Spring will be here before you know it and that along with Summer are my 2 favorite seasons, why?  I love getting my girls dressed up like little princesses. 
To help one lucky reader of my blog get an early start for the warm season, I am offering my patchwork twirl dress handmade by me for your daughter, grand-daughter, neice, sister, cousin whomever you choose to have this dress made for plus a matching hair bow. 

 Enter to win this:

Cute huh?

This one's my daughters, she won't part with it, but I will happily re-create one for the winner.  Look at the twirl and just imagine the wonderful photos you will have not to mention one happy little girl.

How do you enter?  Leave me a comment here and tell me why you would want to win this dress.  It's that easy.  Spread the word and follow my blog, as there will be more giveaways and tutorials here!

A winner will be chosen and announced on Monday!  Good Luck!

Yearly Fabric Splurge

I've somewhat started a tradition for myself for the past two years now, kind of as a late Christmas present to myself, I splurge on fabric.  I'm in fabrics anonymous ;)

I have many things planned for this new crop of fabric goodness.  My most favorite is Anna Maria Horners Little Folks fabric line, it has the softest feel in the world and can't wait to create items for my babies out of this yummy fabric.

So here are pics of some of what I picked up...folksy flannels, little folks and dobby dots complete line by Anna Maria Horner as well as full line of Meadowsweet by Sandi Henderson, Sugar Snap by Melissa Averinos, Amy Butler's new Love line in Flannel, Chloe's Imaginations and Caleb's Treehouse collection by Tina Givens and one of my new favorites Dolce's entire collection by Tanya Whelan, and did I mention I also got the whole collection of Heather Bailey's Nicey Jane?  Oh man, I have a true love of vintage fabrics and I can't wait to turn that line into a wonderful quilt.

I picked up yards and yards of Heather Ross's Far, Far Away and Mendocino before it went out of print.

I can't wait to cut into all of this fabric and share my creations!  So that is my little show and tell for now.  I will be de-stashing some fabrics to make room in my craft room soon, so be on the lookout as well for a small fabric giveaway :)

Same Blog, New look and a merge of 2 companies :)

Notice any changes?  It's still me :)

This page is undergoing construction.

Lots of new things coming as I merge my two shops.  I even got my handwriting turned into a font! You can see the samples in my Post titles--sooo cool and it was really fun!  Hope everyone is having a great year so far and still sticking to those New Years Resolutions! 

I'll be back with a giveaway as well as a tutorial so come back and check out my blog soon!

Is that really me?!?!

Knit Lite Giveaway

Yes, it does say....Abbie from Woodbridge, VA
Whooo hooo!!!

I won a giveaway from Jenna Lou's blog! Just for being on her emailing list, I was automatically entered in her Knit Lite giveaway! This is just the best! They will definitely be put to good use as I teeter and totter back and forth from my sewing, quilting and knitting gifts for this holiday season.

Thank you Jenna Lou!

Handmade Ornament Tutorial

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to make one of these:

First let me begin by saying that by no means am I claiming myself to be the brain or the genius behind this design. This has been done in many variations, but this is "my" way of doing it.

MATERIALS:
Scrapbook paper or Fabric but you will need heavy stabilizer for fabric
Scissors, circle template, 1 1/2" circle puncher or anything that will give you a nice circle
Glue or Tacky Glue or your own prefered method of piecing the pieces together
Ribbon or String to hang your ornament
and any embelishments (I used beads and a very tiny hint of glitter)
Optional (Glaze, I also used a glossy glaze for a glass-like effect)

Begin by either tracing your circle onto your paper or fabric, I used a template. By cutting and using 1 1/2" circle this will yeild you a 3 1/4" ornament.

Make 20 circles and cut out if you haven't already

Next, create and draw a triangle on a separate sheet of paper that will create even half spheres from your 1 1/2" circles. (What I did was trace my circle on a separate sheet of paper and drew a line from each end of the triangle and cut it out) You will need to cut out the triangle as it will be your guide on where to fold over the ends.

Take one side and fold over making sure you fold it completely over one side of the triangle

Do the same for the other side

Last, fold over the bottom

Press down with a little force on all ends to create the crease in your circle---it should look like this

Do this for all 20 circles

To create the top and bottom pieces you will need to take one of the folded triangles and apply glue to one side

Take another triangle and join together by one side and have it look like so

Repeat this using only 5 triangles

When gluing the 5th piece your pieces should bend slightly downward, line edges together and then glue.

This is what the inside looks like (make 2 sets of 5 triangles glued together)

For the remaining 10 triangles you will glue them together creating a chain. It will look as though you have one triangle pointing up and then the next pointing down

This is all 10 glued together

Now, take your chain and glue the ends together making the middle part of your ornament, again make sure that all ends match up

Take one of your sets that you created for the top and bottom and glue it to the middle part of the ornament that you just created

Repeat for the other end, and you can end here.....

I sprayed some clear gloss glaze to make my paper ornament shiny and have a glass-like appearance

Now decorate and embelish and if you want to hang it up, don't forget to add your tie, I super-glued my ribbon bow and made an extra loop so that it can be hung on the tree.

Hope you enjoy making them, just as much as I did!

---Did I leave out any parts? Any part of my tutorial hard to understand? Email me and I would be more than happy to assist you further.

Handmade Ornament

This would be the first swap that I will be participating in this year. I loved swaps, but haven't had much time to complete and participate in many---one of my friends sent me the link to an ornament exchange and I decided to participate in the last minute. It had to be handmade and it had to be mailed out before Dec. 7. I'm already done :)
It's being hosted by mammatortilla a friend of a friend who has a really cute blog--stop by and check her blog out.
This was quick and easy to put together, cutting out the circles if you don't have a puncher is what will take the longest time.
I will be posting a tutorial of how to make your own spherical shindig of a ornament in the following post--I remembered to take pics this time as I went along :)
So this is my creation itching to stay in my tree.