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Showing posts with label felt. Show all posts

6/01/2011

More Dahling Dahlias!

6/01/2011 12 Comments
I'm at it again. I cannot get enough of these felt dahlias, of course now I want to add flowers to everything, but so far I've been able to restrain myself. Almost.

I may have gotten my fix. About 9 times over.

So you guys remember when I made my Dahling Headband?

Yep these are the same dahlias.

I just added some yellow seed beads to center. I just added a drop of hot glue to the centers, and then poured the seed beads over the hot glue. When the glue had cooled a bit, I pressed the beads down into it, and then just shook off the excess.

Then I let all 9 flowers sit for about a month while my sewing room got ravamped, but last night I decided it was time to finish this project.

I had gotten some pretty  yellow linen from Ikea a while back and it'd even been all washed up. Saves me time. :) So I cut out two 15" squares and then sewed up 3.25 of the seams. Why the quarter, because on that 4th side I sewed about 2" in from each corner, just so the corner would be nice and finished. :)

After turning the pillow I folded it in half, and then ironed a line down the center, then I brought each edge to my ironed middle line and ironed 2 more lines. I rotated the pillow 90 degrees and then did it again. So I ended up with a nice grid that had 9 intersections of ironed lines.

I stuffed a small cardboard square into the pillow, because I did not want to accidentally glue the two side together. The fabri-tac was then whipped out and I proceeded to paint the bottoms of the dahlias with glue and then stuck them on to the pillow at the ironed intersections. I made sure to press each one down, and then as I was working another project I would place the stuff I was working with on the pillow to add some weight and help those flowers stick. Not that I was worried, because fabri-tac bonds everything nice and tight, but you know - the boys.

The boys likes to play- hard, and my darling pillow may not be able to stand up to their type of playing.

So after the glue was dry, and I had a nice night's sleep, I removed the cardboard, and shoved my pillow form into the linen and then sewed up the opening.
Isn't she precious? She's going in my bedroom, which is going to get a summer makeover just as soon as I wash the sheets. Which maybe should be sometime in the near future, hopefully. ;-)

Have a great day guys!
Heather

4/19/2011

What a Dah-ling!

4/19/2011 4 Comments
How many of us have a super long list of projects that we've found on other blogs? I do! I do! I do!

So this last week, I decided that I would try to knock some of my list down, and I did! I decided to start with this fabric dahlia tute from Holidash.

Aren't they gorgeous? I love am seriously in love with these fabric flowers, but I did not need a brooch.

I needed a super cute headband, so I followed her instructions sans the bit about attaching the flower too the pin. Instead I added some velcro to both the flower and the headband so I can change out the flower to match whatever I'm wearing. :)
So here's some random pictures of me rocking this super cute adorable dahlia! :)
 How do you like that swath of sun across my forehead? Yay for sidelights and the house facing due west.
 I don't know if you noticed, but I definitely glued my center circle upside down. The pinking'ed side is glued to the flower. Oh well.
 Good thing I've got a salon date soon. That hair curling around my ears is driving me crazy!
Oh and here's the Dev-meister, since he saw I was snapping pics he wanted one snapped too!
Someone needs a haircut! Its on the list for this week. Oh and this guy has three loose teeth! So exciting!

Have fun guys, I'll be back tomorrow :)
Heather