Picnic blanket

We are frequent guests in a forest park with even mosquitos not being an obstruction for us :3 Fresh air and one may dream a little that you are not in a megapolis, but somewhere in a small village.
Here is an idea concerning sewing a blanket on which the boys can play and read books.

Pieces of strong fabric, polyester and black fabric for back side (for practicality).

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Velcro Pouch DIY

WE NEED:

• 2 pieces of fabric 16x33 cm
• 1 piece of interfacing 14x30 cm
• velcro  9cm

 

make bigger ones for pocket books, ipad etc./

* fabrics: night owl by leanne *spoonflower*// nuns on grey by heidikenney *spoonflower*//

Sew a kid's t-shirt with a pocket.

 It has been a long time since I have sewn clothes. But now I started back again. Next in line is a kid's cap with earflaps and baggy pants.
I didn't have time to make a tutorial for this post, so, sorry. But I will give you a link where you can find all needed info. If you don't know how to make a pattern in your child's size, I advise you to take another long sleeved t-shirt of your child and make a pattern from it.
I deliberately  made the collar bigger than necessary, because little M doesn't like to put his big head thought small collars. ;)
Well, and a pocket. It  looks good in black- and- white. The pocket won't be used to carry heavy things, at most a few candies. :)
Here you will find a tutorial about how to make a standard kid's long sleeved t- shirt.
And here how to make a collar.

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Fabric basket D.I.Y

In this week I made a couple of fabric baskets. They are very practical. Small baskets will fit well on the shelves and in the big ones you can put toys, yarn etc.
It's better to choose thick fabric and also use interfacing to help the basket hold its shape.
For counting the amount of fabric use the equation: diameter х the number Pi (=3.14159).  For instance, I have the diameter of the bottom 28 cm, so I need 88 cm fabric in length.
In this blog you can find a really good tutorial how to sew this kind of fabric baskets.

Lttle K discovered the new way how to use it :3

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What I made last week

This is a pillow I made last week.  For this oval print I took 4 different stamps. I just cut them from potatoes ( cut one potato in to 2 pieces and cut out an uneven oval). The printing took some time of course, but the result was worth it!  Just don't forget to put paper under the fabric to protect your table from the acrylic paint. Also, when doing your print, press tightly the potato stamp to the fabric to avoid unprinted parts. On the other side I sewed a zipper with the same color as the oval print.






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Infant soft toy D.I.Y

 Finally I got around to doing it)
Of course, my boys are already grown too old for such toys. This will be a gift)

The toy fixes to the baby bed. The baby can play laying and also sitting ( when he/she can sit by him/herself). Inside every part I put small bells , that is why this toy will make sounds when moved or touched.

D.I.Y Cloud with rain drops

Here we need:
• A piece of fabric
• polyester padding
• stuffing
• multicolor cardboard
• double-sided tape

First draw the stencil "cloud" with the desired size and shape.
Cut two pieces of fabric and two pieces of padding polyester using the stencil (don't forget to add 1.5 cm)
Make "sandwich": polyester padding - fabric, fabric -  padding polyester, pin and sew it. Leave a small hole, turn inside out and stuff the cloud.
Rain drops. Cut 2 drops out of each cardboard. At the end you have 18 drops. Measure 3 pieces of yarn 15 cm each. Using double-sided tape stick together the yarn and  drops. Then sew 3 pieces of yarn to the cloud. We are done!)

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Number magnets

My youngest M loves to count very much, despite his small age ( he just turned 2).
So here arose the idea of number magnets. M was thrilled to play with them)

Here we need:
• pieces of fabrics
• Magnetic buttons
• padding polyester
• number stencils

Take pieces of fabric ( or one big piece, folded in half) a little bit bigger than the number stencil and one piece of padding polyester the same size.
Assemble: one piece of fabric, padding polyester and one piece of fabric again. Sandwich!
On the top of the fabric pin the number stencil.

Sew the number and don't forget to leave a hole for  a magnetic button.
Delet the stencil  and cut away extraneous fabric.

Also you can do the alphabet. You just need a little more patience))

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D.I.Y. Chevron Pillow Cover

You need:
Pillow
Fabric
Acrylic colors
Roller
Painter's tape

The front side
Measure and cut the piece of fabric the size of a pillow + 2 cm for each side. My pillow is 50x50cm. It means cut the square 54x54cm.
Using the painter's tape create the chevron ornament. The space between lines can be equal or not. Just try to stick the tape as straight as possible, without curved corners, because after painting the ornament will look inaccurate.

Press the tape ornament tightly with your fingers so that color doesn't flow under the tape.
Paint the lines. Don't forget to put the piece of paper under the fabric. The paper will soak up excess paint.

Than delete all painter's tape (don't wait till the paint turns dry). Wait until paint completely turns dry and then iron the fabric on the back side to fasten the paint.

 The back side

Cut 2 pieces of fabric for the back side. On the finished pillow the edges have to overlap each other (about 5 cm.). My sizes are 31x54cm

Turn down one side and sew it. Do the same thing with the other piece of fabric.

Connecting

Let's start to connect the parts together. Put all parts with front sides inside. The two back sides have to overlap each other. Pin fabric along perimeter and sew it.

Then iron fabric one more time and turn inside out.

Cut 4 pieces of laces and sew them to both sides.

Let's start the last part. Iron all corners and edges. Sew perimeter of the pillow staying about 1 cm away from the edge.

Hooray!

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