tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67093874951292034102024-03-08T01:57:51.060-06:00LYDesignsFor the love of fabrics and sewing projectsLittle Yellow Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320125169304672600noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709387495129203410.post-77011397002318644642012-04-01T19:35:00.001-05:002012-04-01T19:35:38.030-05:00Up-Cycled Cork Board Tutorial<br />
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This weekend was a lazy one but we did do a little cleaning and moving around. Me and my husband like to play musical chairs with our house so for the third time since we moved into our home 1.5 years ago we moved our bedroom into another room in the house. </div>
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We really don't have a very big house so its not like we have endless options so lets hope third time is a charm, this also means that my future craft room is only a "queen bed removal away". </div>
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Anyways during our moving around we located our old ugly cork board that we still use from time to time but never had a place to put mainly because it was just too darn ugly to hang on any wall. So what is one to do? Well instead of throwing it out and buying a new one we decided to do a little up-cycling and turn it into something aesthetically pleasing, and if you would like to know how have a look below. </div>
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What you need:<br />
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<li>An old cork board</li>
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Start with an old cork board. Ours had a nice little border frame on it already but if yours doesn't you can certainly add it using trim wood from any lumber or home depot type of store.<br />
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First step is to paint it with some white trim paint (or other fun color you prefer). You could use any paint, you may just have to add another coat if two coats doesn't do the trick.<br />
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We decided to paint the whole board white so that the brown cork would not shine through my very thin yellow fabric, we just did one coat of white on the actual board, and two coats for the border, if you are using a thicker fabric you can omit this step and just paint the border.<br />
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Leave the board to dry for several hours or overnight. Go to work on your fabric in the meantime.<br />
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Measure your fabric and cut it carefully with an 0.5" seam allowance. Make sure that your fabric is straight, my cut was off slightly making it look a bit crocket, something to be more careful of next time.<br />
Do an overlock or zig zag stitch all the way around your fabric and place it on your board (when your board is completely dry)<br />
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Bend the edge of the fabric (the part that you made an overlock or zig zag stitch on) under itself to hide the stitch.<br />
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Get out your staple gun and place staples all the way around. You could also use fun thumbnails to keep the fabric in place if you want to avoid seeing staples on your board.<br />
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Now all you have to do is hang your new board and you are ready to pin whatever you like, and if you like this post feel free to Pinterest it :)<br />
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Enjoy.Little Yellow Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320125169304672600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709387495129203410.post-19971469235793197682012-03-30T19:36:00.000-05:002012-03-30T19:36:01.634-05:00Tie tutorial just in time for Easter<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-weVpn0WIMrg/T3ZBkvzyWyI/AAAAAAAAEGQ/Ln0SpGkfkhs/s1600/IMG_0047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-weVpn0WIMrg/T3ZBkvzyWyI/AAAAAAAAEGQ/Ln0SpGkfkhs/s200/IMG_0047.JPG" width="133" /></a><br />
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It is almost Easter and I have been busy making matching dresses for my girls. They turned out great and I even made myself a fun little shirt in the same fabric to go with the theme, but with all of us girls matching what about daddy for Easter?... So I though a tie for him would be perfect to go with our cute outfits. I searched online for tutorials and came across a couple of boys tie tutorials but I knew I wanted something a little more clean looking and adult sized. I decided to take one of my husbands tie's and start from scratch. Here is my tutorial to share with anyone interested:</div>
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I want to offer this super easy pattern to download but my printer/scanner is busted so until I get a new one there is no way I can upload it, so for now I'll just show you how you can make the pattern yourself.<br />
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Your pattern should look something like this now (sorry its not easier to see)</div>
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Next add your seem allowance. I used 5/8" but if you want to use 0.5" thats fine too as long as you know which one you did, a good thing is to note this down on your pattern so you don't forget for next time you want to make it.</div>
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Even though you just made a full tie pattern its time to cut it down the middle, this will ensure that both your sides are exactly the same when you cut your fabric. You cut it on the fold om your fabric to make it the same. </div>
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Now its time to cut the fabric from your pattern. Place the pattern on the fabric and cut it on the fold. </div>
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Next cut your interfacing. Again you can use your pattern, you just use the inner part of your pattern (before adding the backside width and seam allowance). You don't need a seam allowance on the fusible interfacing. </div>
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The last piece of fabric you need to cut is your matching fabric for the backside of the tie, I used a coordinating white fabric and again I was able to use my pattern. Just cut it on the fold using only the bottom portion of the pattern, but cut about 4" up, it should look like the fabric in the right side of the picture. </div>
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Now its time to assemble the tie. Place your tie fabric and coordinating fabric right sides facing, pin it and sew it, only the portion that I pinned in the picture. Flip it inside out after trimming the edges to remove extra bulk. </div>
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Now you have something like this before pressing it. </div>
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Now press it really nicely and fuse your interfacing to the inside of the tie (inside the little pocked you created). Press the tie sides to line up with the interfacing and open up the tie again (see picture)</div>
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Now its time to connect the tie and neck fabric portion, line the two fabrics up together. If you are using fabric with pattern make sure they line up nicely so it does not look too obvious that its two parts connected, don't sew it yet. </div>
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Put the fabrics right sides together and sew, I also did a zig zig stitch for extra strength. </div>
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When done sewing it its finally time to flip over your tie to reveal your result. The easiest way to do this is to attach a safety pin to the one end and guide it through the fabric while slowly pulling the fabric along with it.<br />
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And there you have it, the finished tie, press it and enjoy your new creation. The only thing missing is closing up the top end of the tie but you can do that after fitting it on your man to make sure its not too long for him. </div>
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<br />Little Yellow Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320125169304672600noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709387495129203410.post-88216238389555488682012-03-16T08:15:00.001-05:002012-03-21T07:37:52.782-05:00Skirt, Hat tutorial and flower power dressIt has been a busy couple of weeks trying out new sewing projects found on Pinterest. Not sure what I did with my time before discovering Pinterest, but I know my house was a heck of a lot cleaner! At least my girls are dressed in style and are ready for Spring that will be arriving very very soon.<br />
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Funky Summer Skirt Tutorial:<br />
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I though mine turned out pretty well, but I must admit that I was not a fan of the process of making this one. I think next time I will create the skirt first and then add the ruffles afterwards rather then making up the 3 different layers of band and ruffle and then connecting them, as the tutorial calls for.<br />
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I made this dress with the intention of selling it, I personally think it turned out great, it is my own design and I'm pretty proud of it. I have every intention to sell it, but just haven't gotten around to post it anywhere yet, and not sure if I ever will. I'm thinking Etsy as I already have a store on there for my <a href="http://www.littleyellowdesigns.ca/" target="_blank">children's art</a>. I do find that its hard with the competition out there. There are so many super talented people with great stuff on Etsy but really how to you price these things? The amount of work that goes into it would make it a $150 dollar dress but I'll be lucky to get $30. So I guess my question is this, what would you pay for a homemade dress when you can go to any store and pick out an equally cute dress for less then $20 bucks. Put your answer in the comments below.<br />
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So this week I'm making hairbands. I have lots of left over fabrics from my recent dress projects and with limited time on hand these cute little hairbands are the perfect way to spend a free hour while the kids are napping. </div>
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<br />Little Yellow Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320125169304672600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709387495129203410.post-63167169312732848362012-02-05T01:48:00.000-06:002012-03-30T19:36:54.963-05:00My new obsession: Making dresses for my girls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Its official I'm obsessed with making dresses for my girls this month. I just finished the 5th dress in a two week period and needless to say I'm getting nothing else done because I can't stop sewing! I blame Pinterest, the site of never ending projects. I've already gone through a cake making phase, a cupcake phase and a "Mod Podge just about anything" phase. If only I was making money doing these things I would be a rich women by now... Maybe I should start a store dedicated to my changing projects, maybe a one-of-a-kind type of store... hmm... </div>
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Anyways for those of you interested in making some super cute dresses I invite you to have a look at these sites (posted below) for some great inspiration and some very easy to follow tutorials. I am not a sewing expert in any way, I have basic knowledge and a never ending desire to learn something new, have a look at my latest creation:</div>
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The dress is made from this <a href="http://www.craftinessisnotoptional.com/2011/07/junebug-dress-sew-along-part-1-pattern.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a>, I did two alterations to the original tutorial: I didn't make the sleeves (because I had no more fabric left to use), and I added the solid color waste band to break up the pattern. If your interested in the fabric I got them from a great shop on Etsy, you can find the shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/SewModDesigns?utm_source=convo&utm_medium=trans_email&utm_campaign=convo_html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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<br /></div>Little Yellow Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320125169304672600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709387495129203410.post-12587128248567540822012-01-10T16:36:00.000-06:002012-01-10T16:36:52.692-06:00Neat product for chapped lips<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I came across a great little solution for seriously chapped lips not long ago. I'm a mother of two and as I'm breastfeeding my youngest I often use a product for sore nipples with Lanolin (sorry TMI). What I didn't know was that Lanolin is great for SO many other things as well including treating really sore lips due to sunburns or winter chills. I used to use petroleum jelly but found that it would only protect my lips and not add new moisture to them, so if they were already cracked it would do me no good. However with Lanolin it protects and adds new moisture and its so in-expensive. A whole tube will last you years as you only use a tini tiny amount each time of the sticky gooe. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I did a little research and it turns out that lanolin is in a whole bunch of stuff including medical products to bring the active ingredient further into the skin, how neat. You can read about all the amazing benefits of lanolin right <a href="http://www.lanolin.com/lanolin-for-personal-care-and-medicine.html" target="_blank">here</a> and if your not sure where to buy this stuff then stop by your local pharmacy in the baby isle and look for "nippe" care;) or visit the wonderful website of <a href="http://well.ca/products/lansinoh-brand-lanolin_2059.html?ref=relprod&related_product=19675" target="_blank">well.ca</a> who sells great products and offer FREE shipping with no minimum purchase... I just love Well.ca but that's a whole other blog post in it self.</span></div>
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<br />Little Yellow Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320125169304672600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709387495129203410.post-6512144577524294732011-12-31T12:25:00.000-06:002012-03-30T19:37:10.516-05:00Mud Room TransformationWe moved into our home more then a year ago now and it has been on our to-do-list to create a more functional mud room from the beginning, and now that winter is officially here we finally made time for it.<br />
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The total cost of this project was $554, that included all materials and storage bins.<br />
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I am a big fan of Pinterest and I spend a lot of time researching other peoples projects before deciding one one that would fit our room. Here are some images of my inspiration:</div>
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In order to create this mudroom we used:</div>
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2x IKEA Expedit bookcases ($69.99 each)</div>
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1x IKEA Wall storage cabinet 13"D x 15"H x 36"L ($120)</div>
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1x IKEA Skar Shoe storage bin ($79.99)</div>
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2x IKEA Expedit bookcase drawer inserts ($40.00 each)</div>
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4x IKEA white bins ($6.99 each)</div>
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1x Wall panel from Lowes cut to our dimensions ($40.00)</div>
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2 meters of fabric ($20) - I got way to much, could have settled for half.</div>
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To make this project we measured our room and decided on our design, I originally wanted 4 bookcases to represent one for each family member but we didn't have enough room for that so I settled for a shoe bin instead and two bookcases and instead we each have our own bin for hats and gloves etc, a room for our bag and a drawer each, and of course a hook for the jacket. </div>
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We made our own custom hook rack as we couldn't find one in the dimensions we needed (36" same as the bench width). To make it we nailed a thin trim to a wooden board (top and bottom) and painted it with two coats of trim white. We screwed the board to the wall panel before painting it. The hooks were attached when the paint was dry. </div>
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To make the bench pillow I had to put my sewing skills to the test as the most I have ever made before this was a simple pillowcase, but I knew I wanted something a little more professional looking. </div>
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I found a great tutorial, again on Pinterest, and just left out the piping. Here is the <a href="http://thecsiproject.com/2011/07/27/piped-bench-cushionpretty-handy-girl/" target="_blank">link</a> to the tutorial. </div>
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Basically you cut out the top and bottom piece of fabric and sew it together with 4 sides, sounds easy enough but it took me more then 5 hours to do. I finished the back side with velcro so that I can take it off and wash it. One piece of advice if you want to use velcro stay away from the sticky kind as it is almost impossible to sew through, the needle becomes sticky and doesn't stitch, and if you don't secure it down with thread it will loosen in a day or so. </div>
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I still want to add a bit more color to my mudroom so I'm thinking about changing up the white bins with something a little more colourful at a later time. I also want to add an organization board and mirror on the opposite wall, so maybe that will be my next project. </div>
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So that includes my first ever home renovation blog entry, hope you liked it:) If you have any questions put them in the comments below and I'll be happy to answer them. </div>
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