Craft a Week, a new blog from the Craft a Week Livejournal group, offers a how-to for creating a custom mousepad from scratch with easy-to-find supplies. Their example is obviously a bit traditional and floral, but the technique could work on anything from a basic solid color to bold, vintage swatches.
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This ingenious idea comes to us via Craft Chi, who saw the patterned bottom of sneakers not just as evidence in a CSI episode. What those groovy designs did inspire was a stamping technique. Craft Chi chose to use the sneaker stamp method on cloth (specifically a t-shirt), but it could easily be done on paper too.… Continue Reading
Photo image: Ellen Kennon
If you're lucky enough to have a good looking set of custom slipcovers, or merely a slipcovered chair, be sure you know whether it can be washed, spot… Continue Reading
I'm on the hunt for this exact color of green velvet upholstery fabric. The velvet studio sofa is from Nate Berkus' furniture collection for the The Home Shopping Network. Other photos of this piece don't look like the green in this photo. I'm specifically looking for this deep shade of green… Continue Reading
Face it: No one ACTUALLY likes the look of mini-blinds, but many of us simply continue to let them hang cause they're there, and they do their job, and it's easier than starting over. So, check out this tutorial: Jenny from Little Green Notebook offers a how-to for turning your mini-blinds, already sized and hardware hung, to create custom Roman shades.
Simply determine how many folds you'd like, cut out all but that many of the slats, glue… Continue Reading
I've done it. Kicking and screaming I've made a How To video. (shudder) Even though I upholstered this stool on a previous post, I had to re-do the boxing. Someone bought it from my Etsy shop and it's being shipped to Brooklyn today. Nothing shows technique like an actual… Continue Reading
Viewing someone's project out of context doesn't always convey it's fabulousness. In my Monday Night Upholstery post yesterday, there was no way to understand how the green cushion would look at home. This morning she sent me this photo of her handmade, three button boxed and corded bench cushion. She can now make boxed and corded cushions whenever she wants to. Teaching to fish...
When you're having so much fun creating, sewing, tearing down chairs you obviously want to bring someone with you. Jenny's daughter Sarah tagged along Monday night with an embroidered tee shirt and went to work spinning straw into… Continue Reading
Day 3 of Pillow Talk over on my blog has lots of step by step photos showing you how to "harvest" fabric from a Goodwill garment to use for pillows, trim or anything else you can think… Continue Reading
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Last week I was contacted by Sarah Doyle of SewingBusiness.com about doing an interview for their blog. When you start thinking about the path you've taken in life, it begins to make sense. I began to sew so that I… Continue Reading
The craft and DIY blogosphere has featured TWO tutorials for creating one-of-a-kind iron-on transfers. Using varying types of fusible fabric, both Rice Babies and Cookie magazine will have you customizing your clothes, bags, and bedding with all sorts of imagery.
DIY Iron-On Onesies from Cookie Mag.
Designer Ineke Visser's outdoor furniture pieces are crocheted with a polyester yarn. Apparently it feels like cotton.… Continue Reading
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Why do they call it "oil"cloth? Probably because the recently advertised "real oilcloth" that is all the rage is made from cotton fabric covered with a petroleum based coating. However, genuine oilcloth, the real thing grandma had on her kitchen table was made from cotton duck, canvas or linen… Continue Reading
You can imagine how thrilled I was to find an Instructables reupholstery project that involved something other than furniture. If your rump is… Continue Reading
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What the Craft shows us how to make a quick no-sew halter top from a 'large-ish' t-shirt. All you need to make one--besides said tee--is a scissors! For the entire tutorial, follow this jump.
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