Felt Flower Tutorial

As part of Charlottes 1st birthday party I made these gorgeous felt flowers

So simple just cut out about 40 5cm felt circles and starting with one, fold in half then fold half in half again.. pictures make this much easier to explain! then pin into a polystyrene ball.

The ingredients

Fold your felt circle in half

Then fold half the half in half again

Stick a pin through the middle and into a polystyrene ball

Continue until your ball is covered.....

Candy Wrapper Tutorial

These candy wrappers are very simple to make and everyone LOVES them!!! you can adjust the size for any candy but these measurements are for mentos minis which come in a multipack in the candy isle :)

These are the dimensions I use, make a box this size in your design program then multiply to get 5 across and 4 down per A4 document and add you design placing the text in the middle.

Print and cut to template lines.

Unwrap all your little mento's and rewrap with your super cooler wrappers!

And that is all folks! ENYOY!!!

Bobs and Bits

My Hat I altered and added a cute new trim and headband made tonight from the sew pretty blog Loving this quick tutorials! Headband took 10mins :)

Another Skirt....

I felt a little bad not making Grace a skirt so I whipped this one up last night it only took 10mins as there is no trim ANYONE can make this skirt! use my tutorial and give it ago!

I will do a tutorial for this flower soon :)

Little Girls Aprons from old jeans

Both of these Aprons were made from one pair of my husbands old jeans, simply using another childs apron for a base. The detail fabric is Hoffman Tweet Tweet from Sew Pretty

Reversible Bag Tutorial

I've spent hours looking for the easiest bag tutorial on the net and this one wins hands down!

http://verypurpleperson.com/2010/04/making-reversible-bag.html

It can be whipped up in an night and is so dam cute!!! Total cost of this bag was under $5!

Charlottes First Birthday...

Finally the planning has started for Charlottes party!!!

There is no 'set' theme but there will be lots of Butterflies and Owls... here is a sneak peek unfortunately I don't have a photo of the final product with glitter detail.

No Sew Apron Top

I searched high and low for an easy tutorial on making a Apron top... here is my own version :)

depending on the width of you fabric I have found 1mt-1.5 is sufficient.

I like to use slightly stretchy fabric and something that won't fray (otherwise you can sew up the edges but its wayyyy more fun have a top finished in under 10mins!)

Basically all you need to do is draw this pattern on to your Fabric and cut out! I adjust the curve to suit my under arm and you can cut a fatter strip for the bottom tie and make it shorter then sew together if you prefer not to have a tie at the bottom.

Also if you don't have enough fabric you can you ribbon for the top tie.

Flower Tutorial

Ok this one is sew simple even the kids can do it!!

Every thing in our house seems to be adorned in theses cute flowers :)

I even used one in the trim fabric from the skirt Tutorial to make a matching tee shirt.

First gather your Materials:

A piece of Sew Pretty Fabric

Chalk

Scissors

A circle temple... mine is a coffee Jar ;)

Needle and Thread

Step 1

Cut a circle using your circle template.

Step 2

Thread your needle and sew around the edge of the circle

Step 3

Pull the thread tight to gather

Step 4

Use your finger to push the edges out to make a pretty flower shape and stitch the opening closed in the middle of the flower.

Step 5

Add a Button and your all done :) Easy peasy

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Paula x

Little Girls Skirt Tutorial

This is my very first attempt at a tutorial and about the 5^th thing I have ever sewn!

I have tried my hardest to explain everything as simply as possible :)

Happy Sewing and please post pictures on the Molly the Bear Facebook page if you do make a skirt, I'd love to see!

Materials

I have used a fat quarter from Sew Prettys Riley Blake quite contrary range

Some trim from a fat quarter in the same range

Scissors

Elastic

You will not believe how easy this comes together!

Step One: Skirt piece

Fold your Fat Quarter in half and cut then pin right sides (the pretty sides) together down one of the short sides. You are about to sew the two together to make one

long piece.

SEW!

Then open the seam you have just sewn and press it (iron it)

Step Two: Trim Piece

Cut your trim – Mine was 6cms which works out to a 2.5cm trim when finished but if you want a fatter trim go for it! And it was the same length as the first fat quarter (you want your trim to be the same length as you skirt piece).

Pin right sides together as in step one and sew to make one lonnnng piece of trim.

And press the seam.

Step Three: Connecting the two pieces

Now lay both pieces right sides together (lining up the seams) and pin.

SEW! I just use my foot as a guide

Now fold the trim down and iron the seam flat

Fold the raw edge of the trim up about 5mm the press with iron

Now fold and press the trim in half up to the seam and SEW! Nice and close to the edge.

Fold the waist down 1cm then press and then fold over again 1.5cms and press the SEW! Close to the edge.

Step Five: Assembly

Lay out your skirt and give it one last iron

To get the correct length of Elastic measure your little ones waist and subtract an inch.

Attach a safety pin to one end of the elastic and thread through the waist.

Once all the elastic it through you can safety pin the end of the elastic to the skirt so it doesn't get lost in the waist.

Now tie elastic in a knot.

And pin right sides together for the last seam. SEW! I run over the elastic a few times and cut off the knot.

Press the last seam and turn in the right way.....

Paula x

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