Newest Creations

I haven't posted in awhile :(! Sorry. I've been busy with the kiddos, planning a bridal shower (details to come), and sewing!
I though I would show off a couple of my latest creations.

The top picture is Marley showing off her latest accessory, a ruffle beanie that mommy made from an old tee-shirt!

This picture features Marley and her fabric flower hair clip, made just like the previous one here, with a couple more embellishments. This time I used the hem of an old tee-shirt, attached the flower to a fabric lined alligator clip and stitched a yellow button in the center to match her outfit!

Sorry, not alot of tutorials, but a little inspiration for a cloudy, or snowy day! 

Re-Purposed Fabric Flower Hair Clips

I am gearing up for an upcoming local farmer's market and have decided to place a big focus on creating items from re-purposed fabrics! There are so many great fabric out there, on old clothing and what not, that can be used to make cute "new" things! Plus, old fabrics have been washed so many times that most of the chemicals used in their fibers are gone! (yea organic!)
So here are a few fabric flower hair clips I made from an old shirt. I LOVE this fabric and am so excited it found new life in these clips.

I didn't capture the steps on camera, but I'll give you a summary of how to make your own clips!

1. Cut a strip of fabric, mine vary in width and length, think about how big you want your flower to be. 1" is a good place to start on width.

2. Stitch along one long side of the strip and gather (pulling your stitching).

3. Secure your gathered stitches. I just tie a knot using a previous stitch ( I don't know how to explain it better!! :) )

3. Now bunch together one side to form the center and stitch through it to secure it.

4. Start twisting the rest of your gathered strip around the center, stitching through every so often to secure.

There you go!!

I attached mine to snappi clips that are covered in matching fabric.

These ones are in the etsy shop so check them out, or make your own!!!

re-purposed owl pillow

Meet our newest family room friend!!! I am so excited about this finished project. I LOVE owls! I don't know why, but they have always seemed a bit whimsical to me. I was digging through a bag of old clothes the other day and found an old sweater and the owl was imagined! it didn't take long for me to gather a few old shirts for coordinating fabric. Literally all the fabric used is re-purposed!!!!! 

I wanted to do a tutorial, but my camera battery was dead, and I have to use my time when I can get it, so he was created without pictures of the process, but it was really quite simple.

1. draw your pattern- I use fusible interfacing to draw my patterns on. I based this owl loosely off my hair clips that I make.

2. cut out the pattern and pin it to the sweater so it goes through both sides.

3. Cut out the owl from the sweater.

4. using coordinating knit fabrics (they won't fray) cut out the belly and eyes.

a. I used various household items to draw the eye circles (jars etc...) and the smallest circle i used the sweater material.

5. Cut out a triangle for the nose. This should be fairly large so the eyes can overlap it.

6. sew your belly onto the front of one of the sweater pieces. I used a tight zigzag stitch, but you could straight stitch around .

7. sew the nose on. I used a straight stitch. sew your eyes on going from largest to smallest using a straight stitch.

8. Pin your owl right sides together and stitch around the edges, leaving an opening for turning and stuffing.

9. Stuff with poly-fill and close with a hidden stitch.

You now have a new friend too!!!!