Don't you just love it when your child's school give you exactly 2 days' notice to whip up a fancy dress costume! Yesterday we were told that my daughter's school were going to be having a "Harvest Themed" fancy dress day to raise money for the school. The obvious options were to go as a farmer, scarecrow or milkmaid - none of which we had at home and none of which I could persuade my daughter to go as. Apparently they're not "pretty enough." So here I am, trying to create a pretty Harvest costume out of thin air. I wanted to make an autumnal coloured skirt, which may or may not be decorated with leaves if I manage to find the time from somewhere... (as you can see, I didn't.) The Tutorial I decided to make a kind of layered, floaty tutu, but I wanted it to be slightly different from the kind that is just strips of fabric knotted around a piece of elastic. I wondered if it would be possible to make the strips twist and twirl like falling leaves as they cascaded. To make the skirt you need: - A metre or 2 each of as many different coloured nylon and polyester satin, organza and tulle fabrics you can find. (I live in a small town and so I was limited to just a few shades of habutai polyester, some lining fabric and some bright orange tulle fabric.) I already had a few remnants of other fabrics that I was able to put to use. 2 metres or so of 4cm wide ribbon. Elastic Pattern Pieces Candle lighter Scissors Thread Pins Sewing machine Print out the 3 pattern pieces, cut out the grey shapes and tape them together into one long semi-circular strip. Fold your different coloured fabric pieces up as many times as possible, allowing you to cut out 8 to 10 pieces at the same time. I found the safest way to ensure that all of the fabric was under the pattern piece was to fold it over and under like a concertina. If you have a lot more time than me, you could cut each piece out individually, which would make more economical use of your fabric, giving you a few more strips to work with. In the end I managed to cut 44 pattern pieces out of as many different fabrics I could find. To prevent the fabric edges from fraying and to give the fabric pieces more volume, singe around all the edges with a candle lighter - of course this method is only suitable for nylon and polyester. Never try this with cotton or silk and always do a test sample first over a bucket of water! The net or tulle fabric don't need to be singed as it doesn't fray. The skirt could be made completely out of tulle if you prefer, but you would need a lot more fabric and a lot more layers to get a similar effect. Once you've singed around all of the edges of your nylon and polyester fabric it's time to start assembling the layers. Before you start pinning, work out what your colour pattern is going to be. I had 5 different fabrics, all in varying quantities, so on a piece of paper, I made a note of the order I needed to arrange my fabrics so that I had an even spread of colour all around the skirt. Each piece is pinned to the previous piece at the straight edge. Overlap your pieces so that just a couple of centimetres is left exposed. Continue from left to right, staggering the overlaps until all of your fabric pieces have been used up. Alternate the direction of the curve in the pattern pieces as you work your way along the skirt. Here's a close up of the singed edges of fabric. You can see that the opacity of some of the fabrics means that you don't need nearly as much fabric, as you would with just tulle, to get quite a dense looking skirt. To make the skirt a lot more solid looking I added a circle underskirt to the whole thing. To draw the pattern for my circle skirt I used this ingenious page by the Scientific Seamstress. It's brilliant! It allows you to print out lots of pieces of paper that all tape together to form a quarter circle of concentric circles. I worked out how large the circumference of the inner circle needed to be by loosely measuring my daughter's hips and then adding a few centimetres. From that I worked out what diameter the waist hole needed to be*. This gave me the size of the cut out hole in the centre. Onto that I added double the length that I wanted the skirt to be and this gave me the diameter of the circle I needed to cut out. I hope that all made sense! *For reference, the formula for working out the diameter from the circumference is :- Diameter = Circumference divided by Pi Once all of your strip pieces have been pinned together, run a long basting stitch across all of the pieces and remove the pins. Now pin the fabric strips all the way around the edge of the inner circle. If your layered skirt is much larger than your inner skirt waist, use the basting stitches to gather it all in to the same size. By huge coincidence, my over-skirt was exactly the same size as the inner waist hole. To make the waist band, cut 2 strips of ribbon the same size at the waist, with an extra couple of centimetres for folding over. Stitch them together along one of the long edges to form the front and back of the waist band. With the wrong sides together, fold along the seam and press the seam along the right side. With the right sides together, pin the waist band into place, folding over the ends. Stitch the waist band into place. Fold the waistband over to its correct position and pin into place. Stitch the inside of the waistband into place by stitching as close as possible to the bottom edge of the front waistband. Finally, using a safety pin, thread some elastic all the way through the inside of the waistband, try it on and knot the elastic at the point where it fits comfortable but snuggly. There you have one swirly, cascading, floaty skirt, that any 6-year-old girl would love! If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy this:- World Book Day - Lulus spotty bow Up House pom pom mobile World Book Day - cuddly costume props ---------- Please be sweet and share the love. Leave a comment, subscribe to my YouTube channel, like my Facebook page for regular updates or follow me on Pinterest, Bloglovin' or Instagram
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I've been playing a lot with Hama beads recently. I think it's all the colours and the possibilities of creating amazing pixel art that has me gripped. More of that to come in a few weeks... A few months ago I pinned an image of a bracelet made out of fuse beads from Craft and Creativity. It details how you can melt Hama beads or Perler beads in the oven so that they become flat, with much larger holes. I thought it might be the perfect craft to try with my 4 year old, as the large holes make it so much easier for her to thread through... As it turned out, my daughter lost interest after about 2 minutes. I, on the other hand was enthralled! The original bracelet above is made using the equivalent of Midi Hama beads. The other project I'm working on uses the very small Mini Hama beads that are designed for children aged 10 and above, so I have an abundance of these tiny fuse beads. I therefore had no idea how my beads were going to turn out... I dutifully laid out my mini beads on my non stick baking tray, making sure that they were all standing upright. HOWEVER I've got a fan oven and the mini beads are very small and light, so as soon as I opened the oven door, most of them rolled from their original positions, many of them onto their sides. The oven was heated to 200 degrees Centigrade and it took less than 2 minutes for them to flatten down to this size and shape. There's really no need to walk away from the oven, you can see them shrink and flatten before your eyes. The thing I did discover though was that the ones that had rolled onto their side shrank in exactly the same way, so their starting position had no effect on their final shape. My only problem was the ones that had rolled together. They of course had fused to each other and were pretty unusable. Having had success with the first batch I laid out my next lot. This time I paid little regard to whether they were standing up or on their side. I just made sure that they had a nice distance between each other. You can see how some shrank standing on their sides - now that's clever! I took the tray out and left them to cool down for a few minutes. I then threaded them onto some silk thread - just wide enough to fit over my hand. I love how the beads have turned out. The mini Hama beads are so delicate. In a certain light they look like hand made glass beads or shells - especially with the mixture of translucent and opaque beads. ---------- Please be sweet and share the love. Leave a comment, subscribe to my YouTube channel, like my Facebook page for regular updates or follow me on Pinterest, Bloglovin' or Instagram
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Samen genieten en het leven vieren in al zijn diversiteit – de glazen van de collectie Like Glass combineren op speelse wijze spontaniteit en de drang om steeds iets nieuws te ontdekken. Happy Mix & Match is het devies bij de gekleurde glazen. Het resultaat: Momenten zo kleurrijk als het leven zelf. Met het gekleurde glas van de collectie Like Glass wordt elk moment een feestje. Met de moderne, eenvoudige vorm en de subtiele kleurstelling wordt het glas een trendy highlight – zowel in het dagelijks leven als op de gedekte tafel bij het volgende dinerfeestje. Het leven vieren in al zijn prachtige kleurrijke diversiteit – met Like Glass van like. by Villeroy & Boch.
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Make beautiful wall art with your toddler using paint chips and contact paper (or sticky paper) while at the same time learning colours!
This one will take you right back to your childhood. Remember making tissue paper art when you were a kid? Toddlers, preschoolers AND big kids will love this classic art process. They'll learn a new skill too, if you have them pre-plan and colour-code their designs like we did!
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DIY COLOURED SAND - It's so easy and fun to make vibrant coloured sand for all your sand art projects and sensory bins.
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Your kids will love making these adorable 31 Pumpkin Kids Crafts For Halloween, and you will get sentimental seasonal decorations to save for years to come.
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