Monday, June 28, 2010

No Sew Fabric Rosette

My first Tutorial!!


First of all I want to say how easy and cheap these are to make. Made out of remnants, these frayed fabric rosettes are so cute to wear in your hair, on a purse or just about on anything.


I started with a 44inch x 2in strip of fabric.(You can use the measurements you'd like) fold wrong sides together and press. Tie a knot at one end of the fabric. With this rosette I choose to add some tulle to it. Simply cut small strips of tulle and tie them on. I spaced mine out about 5 inches.

At this point you are going to simply twist the fabric and turn it around the knot, hot gluing along the way. Be sure to glue on the underneath side, otherwise glue will show up all o the top(not pretty). This process is very forgiving, just keep twisting,turning and gluing until you have ran out of fabric or you have reached your desired width. Glue tails on bottom side.


Cut out a piece of felt, glue unto the back. Next attach clip, that's it, your all done!


** Note** For this rosette, I took 2 different fabrics ( you can either do contrasting or corresponding fabrics) and twisted and wrapped them together. Gave a fun different look.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Shirring



This was my first attempt at Shirring! I was excited to try it, and loved the results. I made these two dresses for my daughters. Hayley is wearing a simple pillowcase dress that I altered for smaller armholes and shirring in the bust. Alexa's dress was really just made on a whim. I was practicing shirring and ended up with a dress for her.(no pattern) Had a lot of fun.