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Fabric Beads
Ideas for Making Fabric Beads
I love beads, I used to buy loads of them. But you don't have to just buy beads, you can make some pretty awesome handmade beads too. A limited budget forced me to look at how I could make my own beads. If you already have a stash of fabric, why not try making some fabric beads? Below are some ideas and inspiration for you to make your own fabric beads. Let me know what you come up with! This lens was the twenty-fourth Melted Fabrics Craft Challenge. Each week I set a new textiles challen...
Ideas for Making Fabric Beads
I love beads, I used to buy loads of them. But you don't have to just buy beads, you can make some pretty awesome handmade beads too. A limited budget forced me to look at how I could make my own beads. If you already have a stash of fabric, why not try making some fabric beads? Below are some ideas and inspiration for you to make your own fabric beads. Let me know what you come up with! This lens was the twenty-fourth Melted Fabrics Craft Challenge. Each week I set a new textiles challen...
Patch Work - The Art of Decorative Patches
Inspiration for Using Patches
In this lens I want to look at patches - not necessarily patchwork quilts, but patched up clothes and cloth. This lens is predominantly going to be about using patches for decoration on textiles pieces but I also want to think about patching up old clothes and recycling things rather than throwing them away. So often we'll throw away clothing or bed linen or whatever when it gets stained or ripped. So what can we do to add some glamour to our old and tired textiles? I'm particularly interes...
Inspiration for Using Patches
In this lens I want to look at patches - not necessarily patchwork quilts, but patched up clothes and cloth. This lens is predominantly going to be about using patches for decoration on textiles pieces but I also want to think about patching up old clothes and recycling things rather than throwing them away. So often we'll throw away clothing or bed linen or whatever when it gets stained or ripped. So what can we do to add some glamour to our old and tired textiles? I'm particularly interes...
A Self Portrait a Day
My Challenge to Create a New Portrait Every Day
The other day - well July 4th to be precise - I randomly decided to play about with making self-portraits in Photoshop. I'm not an expert with Photoshop - I only just about know what I'm doing but it's something I enjoy. After making that first portrait I decided to make it into a challenge - to make a portrait a day and in some way chart my thoughts and moods for the day. I'm not sure if my portraits will always be in Photoshop or whether they might be drawings or stitched pieces on other...
My Challenge to Create a New Portrait Every Day
The other day - well July 4th to be precise - I randomly decided to play about with making self-portraits in Photoshop. I'm not an expert with Photoshop - I only just about know what I'm doing but it's something I enjoy. After making that first portrait I decided to make it into a challenge - to make a portrait a day and in some way chart my thoughts and moods for the day. I'm not sure if my portraits will always be in Photoshop or whether they might be drawings or stitched pieces on other...
Beads by Janet Coles and Robert Budwig
An Exploration of Bead Traditions Around the World
Beads is a gorgeous full colour book by Janet Coles, an expert on the history and use of beads, and Robert Budwig, a design consultant with Coles's company. In the lens below I've picked out a few examples of the beads that are talked about in each section of the book, hopefully whetting your appetite to do your own research into beads. Please note: The images used in this lens are sourced from Creative Commons and are not the actual images from inside the book.
An Exploration of Bead Traditions Around the World
Beads is a gorgeous full colour book by Janet Coles, an expert on the history and use of beads, and Robert Budwig, a design consultant with Coles's company. In the lens below I've picked out a few examples of the beads that are talked about in each section of the book, hopefully whetting your appetite to do your own research into beads. Please note: The images used in this lens are sourced from Creative Commons and are not the actual images from inside the book.
Unfinished Craft Projects and How to Finish Them
Ever Felt Like You're Snowed Under with Unfinished Work?
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. Unfortunately there isn't room for skeletons in my closet because there are too many unfinished textiles projects stuffed in there. Gah! I am sick of being someone who doesn't finish things and just creates more clutter! I originally made this page to catalogue all my unfinished projects together - unfortunately I had so many unfinished projects I had to make a whole new page to put them on!
Ever Felt Like You're Snowed Under with Unfinished Work?
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. Unfortunately there isn't room for skeletons in my closet because there are too many unfinished textiles projects stuffed in there. Gah! I am sick of being someone who doesn't finish things and just creates more clutter! I originally made this page to catalogue all my unfinished projects together - unfortunately I had so many unfinished projects I had to make a whole new page to put them on!
How to Make Fabric Yoyos
Little Puffs of Fabric Joy!
Fabric Yoyos (or yo yos) are not cloth versions of the toy on a string! I'm not even sure how that would work... Anyway, Fabric Yoyos are funky little puffed circles that you can use to decorate the surface of your textiles pieces. Not only that but you can piece them together to make throws and blankets, bags and cushions etc. I've become a little obsessed with making Fabric Yoyos recently so I thought I'd collect together some information on how to make them, what they can be used for an...
Little Puffs of Fabric Joy!
Fabric Yoyos (or yo yos) are not cloth versions of the toy on a string! I'm not even sure how that would work... Anyway, Fabric Yoyos are funky little puffed circles that you can use to decorate the surface of your textiles pieces. Not only that but you can piece them together to make throws and blankets, bags and cushions etc. I've become a little obsessed with making Fabric Yoyos recently so I thought I'd collect together some information on how to make them, what they can be used for an...
Fabric Scrumbles
Little Patches of Texture
Scrumbles are generally made from little patches of freeform knitting or crochet but as my primary craft involves fabric I wanted to look at scrumbles made from tiny textiles pieces. And just as knit and crochet scrumbles can be knit together - how about patching tiny textured textiles together - a texture version of patchwork, if you will. This is the twenty-third Melted Fabrics Craft Challenge and you're welcome to join in. So get your thinking caps on, have a look through the informatio...
Little Patches of Texture
Scrumbles are generally made from little patches of freeform knitting or crochet but as my primary craft involves fabric I wanted to look at scrumbles made from tiny textiles pieces. And just as knit and crochet scrumbles can be knit together - how about patching tiny textured textiles together - a texture version of patchwork, if you will. This is the twenty-third Melted Fabrics Craft Challenge and you're welcome to join in. So get your thinking caps on, have a look through the informatio...
The Fabric Melter's Kit Box
The Basics Needed for Creating Melted Textiles Pieces
This lens is an index of the tools and materials that I use in and on my textiles work on a regular basis. This is a pretty basic list but I've included links to other lenses I've made that have further ideas and products/tools mentioned. I've included tools such as hot air guns and soldering irons and the sorts of materials that I use to create my textiles work. Opposite: A peek into my thread box.
The Basics Needed for Creating Melted Textiles Pieces
This lens is an index of the tools and materials that I use in and on my textiles work on a regular basis. This is a pretty basic list but I've included links to other lenses I've made that have further ideas and products/tools mentioned. I've included tools such as hot air guns and soldering irons and the sorts of materials that I use to create my textiles work. Opposite: A peek into my thread box.
The Melted Room of Mysterious Cocoons and Chrysalides
Welcome!
Inside this Museum room you will find out everything you needed to know (and then some!) about cocoons and chrysalides. For example did you know that moth faeries like to spin their cocoons next to the finest rare breed wool so that when they break out from their silk prisons they can feast on curls of wensleydale and merino and their favourite - Angelina fibre? Or that there is a rare tribe of people living on an imaginary island off the British coast whose babies spin cocoons of fabric an...
Welcome!
Inside this Museum room you will find out everything you needed to know (and then some!) about cocoons and chrysalides. For example did you know that moth faeries like to spin their cocoons next to the finest rare breed wool so that when they break out from their silk prisons they can feast on curls of wensleydale and merino and their favourite - Angelina fibre? Or that there is a rare tribe of people living on an imaginary island off the British coast whose babies spin cocoons of fabric an...
Mystery Textiles Week Seven Surface Decoration
Adding a Little Glamour
This lens is for week 7 of a mystery textiles piece challenge. Each week I'll make a lens of instructions for the mystery textiles pieces. This week we're going to think about decorating the surface of our textiles pieces. Think beads, yo-yos, tyvek, hand embroidery, ruffles, cording, machine embroidery etc! It's never too late to join in!
Adding a Little Glamour
This lens is for week 7 of a mystery textiles piece challenge. Each week I'll make a lens of instructions for the mystery textiles pieces. This week we're going to think about decorating the surface of our textiles pieces. Think beads, yo-yos, tyvek, hand embroidery, ruffles, cording, machine embroidery etc! It's never too late to join in!
2012-05-12 14:00:59
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