Fabric Flower Bouquet - 03

I combined the organza flower and the green fern vase wrap into a bouquet.

I cut a bamboo skewer as tall as the inside of the bottle.  

I cut a circle of warm blue fabric and put a small hole in the center.  

I put a hole in the center of the metal lid with a nail and hammer.

I then pushed the stem wire through the fabric circle, then through the metal lid and then wrapped it tightly around the skewer.

Then I dropped the skewer/wire into the bottle and screwed on the lid to the bottle.

I placed the wrap onto the bottle from the bottom ensuring the flower was where I wanted it.  

I tucked the blue "water" fabric circle between the jar and the wrap.

And I have another bouquet ready to go.

Fabric Flower - Peach Organza

 My aunt offered me some organza for making a flower so I went ahead with cutting circles.  I cut four 5" circles, four 3.5" circles and two 2" circles.  I sewed the layers together.  Started by folding the circles in quarters then overlapped the points of 2 of the circles and stitched then repeated that and placed these offset from the first set. Now I had a full circle of organza.  Repeated the same process with the 4 medium circles.  The small circles I folded in half and then in thirds to make the center. This was stitched horizontally to keep the petals pointing forward instead flattened.  Once this was done I secured my thread carefully. 

I added a 2.5 inch cardstock circle to the back of the flower with thread and then stitched the wire to the flower and card stock to ensure it would stay in place. I cut a piece of the lining fabric from the fern wrap and and hand stitched that to cover the mess at the back of the flower.

Sewing Project - Nightgown Upgrade

I am feeling better from being quite sick with COVID.

I have been home for 9 days and just feeling able to do more than the basics of taking care of myself.

I bought this nightgown this summer but I found it just a bit too short.  When I was on a visit with my sister a while back I found some black starry organza and thought "That should do the trick".

I cut the organza to 12 inches high and the width of the fabric. I cut 2 lenghths and created a loop with two rench seams.  I then folded the loop in half so that the fold was on the bottom.  I alloted the excess fabric in pleats along the way to the point where the full loop fit along the hem of the garment.  I sewed the raw edges along the hem.

Now I had to make it pretty.  Again, in the last few weeks I found a roll of wide frilly ribbon which I thought could play a part in this project. I pinned the ribbon on top of the raw edges of the organza and that cleaned up all the edges.

Now the garment is 6 inches longer to just below the knee and I am surrounded by gold and silver stars as I head for dream land.  Works for me.

There was a manufacturers label on the garment but it was aligned vertically instead of horizontally.  This made it difficult to hang on the hook in my bedroom closet.

I added a twill tape loop on the back neckline so that it hangs more easily in the closet.

Really happy with this small sewing  project.

I have missed my sewing so much in the last year. 
Today was the 1 year anniversary of the flood at the old condo.  I have been in renovation mode for that long.

Card - Slow Stitching - Daisy

My first card with a slow stitching element.

The background is a slow stitching piece measuring 3.5 x 4.75 inches featuring black, navy and yellow pieces of fabric. The stitching was done with regular sewing thread in a color matching the fabric.

I stitched a daisy on the black slow stitching fabric.  I first cut a piece of organza into a 2.25 inch circle.  I then stitched the flower with golden yellow thread. I added a yellow button in the center.

I then stitched the stem and leaves with a bright green thread with a stem stitch.  

I added ground with thread rows of  running stitches in brown thread.

I then added blades of grass in three different shades of green.

The daisy layer was adhered to the front of a golden yellow card with 2 bands of double sided tape.
 

Christmas Stack - Silver Poinsettia

Today, I'm posting my Christmas Stack Class.  This first card has a gorgeous metallic and organza silk poinsettia as the focal element. I chose a grey card stock onto which I printed a damask pattern which I downloaded from Clker and the greeting in a burgundy color to match the felt ribbon.  I placed a piece of silver satin ribbon across the wide card below the damask pattern. The ends of the ribbon are tape to the inside of the card.  Then I adhered the centre of the burgundy felt ribbon across the satin ribbon going from top to bottom edges of the card, to the left of the greeting.  I opened the card flat and used a push pin to create a hole in the ribbons and the card front for the silver brad.  I cut the centre of the flower with the Tim Holtz - Tattered Poinsettias die from the same felt ribbon.  I then placed the small centre, the organza flower, the metallic silver flower onto the brad.  The I placed the prongs of the brad through the hole I just made and spread the prongs apart on the inside of the card.

You can find the Ready 2 Go kit here.

Card - Textiles Experiment

This is my first attempt at a card for my May Christmas Card Challenge - Textiles.  The shimmery, sheer material is stuff I bought a Dollarama on a roll.  It is quite stiff so proved a challenge to use. I chose an ivory card and stamped greeting in red in the bottom right hand corner.  I laid a strip of double sided tape across the card and pressed the organza material onto it as I made folds in it.  I then selected this red felt border which I laid over the folds I had made.  I punched 3 MS Snowflake punchies from ivory shimmery card stock and placed them along the border and held them in place with red brads.  I added 2 red brads in the most left and right holes to keep the felt securely in place.  I don't think I will make more.  I will move on with the red felt border and see what else I can create.

Card Club - Nov - Glitter Snowflakes

I used organza fabric with silver glittered snowflakes on it. The scan does not do justice to the snowflakes. They are gorgeous. I use Terrifically Tacky Tape (with the red liner) to glue the fabric to the inside of the card. It covered the full front of the card. A white piece of cardstock with a greeting was ripped into a snowbank. I included a couple of brads to help keep the fabric in place. The snowflake is MS Glacier Snowflake punch. It is a very nice punch but the shape is very delicate and several were broken during the class while attempting to put the brad in the center. I finished off the card with a white satin/organza ribbon at the top fold.