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Michele shows us how to make a lovely curvelet lap quilt with lots of tips and tricks! Download the Project PDF here and then watch her helpful video. Let us know how yours turns out! #createwitholiso
]]>You will learn how to make all the components for the 6 ft. banner. It can be used for parties or home décor inside and out of doors. Even on a camping trip!
Once you learn how to make the basic components you will be able to make a banner, a wall hanging or a mobile using an embroidery hoop or small hula hoop.
Please watch our YouTube video for additional instructions on all 3 projects!
Supplies for 6 ft. banner:
½ yard for main flag fabric
½ yard for flag lining
12 ft cotton cording, clothesline or heavy jute or yarn (longer if going to hang outside)
Assorted fat quarters or 8” square scarps for yo yo’s
Assorted yarn for pom poms and tassels (a great way to use up your leftovers and If you don’t knit or crochet maybe a friend does)
Basic sewing supplies:
Darning needle
Sewing machine
Rotary cutter and cutting mat
Clover pom pom maker and yo yo maker (optional) or a 3” piece of cardboard.
Pattiwack tassel maker (optional) or 4” by 4” piece of cardboard
Bells and wooden beads for embellishments
Instructions:
Flag:
1. Cut 4 pieces of the front flag fabric and 4 pieces of the lining fabric 6” W by 18” L.
2. With right sides together sew around 3 sides leaving one of the 6” sides open. Clip corners and turn right side out. Press.
3. Turn open side in ½” and pin.
4. Top stitch around the entire flag ¼” from the edge.
5. Fold over (lining sides together) leaving 1 ½” of the lining fabric showing. Pin at top and sew ½” from the folded edge to form the casing.
6. Make 4 small yo-yos with 3” circles and sew a bell onto each (use the same method you use to make the large yo-yos below.
7. Sew the 4 yo-yos with bells onto the bottom of the front of the flag.
Tassel/yo-yo/pom droplet and fabric strips:
1. Cut ten, 6” circles of assorted solid fabrics. Fold and press ¼” onto the wrong side of the fabric. With the needle and thread sew a running stitch around the edge. Start to gently pull the thread and gather. Sew in and out of the folds from the front to the back and whip stitch to secure, clip the thread tails.
2. Follow manufacturer’s instructions to make 5 poms with the Clover pom-pom maker (or you can use a 3” piece of stiff cardboard. Fold the cardboard in half and wind yarn around. Slip an 18” piece of yarn inside the cardboard. Pull tight and tie a double knot, slip off cut loops and trim.
3. For the tassel wrap the yarn several times around the 4” cardboard, slip an 18” length of yarn through the top and tie a double knot. Slip off and wrap and tie a 12” piece of yarn and tie in a double knot. Trim off the bottom. Make 5 tassels. You can also use the Pattiwack tassel maker.
4. Thread the tassel tails through the darning needle, thread the bead, and pom-pom onto the yarn tails. Lay the yarn tails on the wrong side of one yo-yo about 1” above the pom-pom. and place the 2nd yo-yo on top with the wrong sides together. You can either stitch together or use fabric glue to secure. (a circle of fusible webbing can also work).
5. Slit and tear 8 strips of fabric about 1 to 1 ½” wide and cut into 24” lengths.
Assemble the banner:
1. Wrap one end of the cording with tape and put a safety pin through the end. Feed all 5 flags onto the cording, leaving a 10” space between each flag.
2. Tie a yo-yo tassel droplet in the center space. Fold strips of fabric in half and loop under cording. Slip tails through the loop and pull tight.
3. Knot each end of the cording to prevent it from unwinding.
Birch Branch Wall Hanging:
Hoop Mobile (not meant for baby or toddlers)
(Optional) Use any leftover scraps to make a garland! Mini House garland Finished size: approx. 3” high and 3” across the bottom of the roof Make the garland out of the scrap pieces left over from the Felt House project using the same method. (photos 1 through 3 of smaller houses) string on embroidery floss
]]>Hi! It's Bev from Flamingo Toes here today with a fun new tutorial for this DIY Recipe Dishtowel! It makes such a great gift idea or family memento and it is so simple to make! This sweet dishtowel is a great way to show off a family or favorite recipe – and you can make it whether you have an original recipe card or not. If you have an original recipe card you can recreate that look on the dishtowel by scanning in the card and then printing it out on transfer paper. But if you don't have one, don't let that stop you! I have a great friend that I love to cook and bake with, but she lives in Arizona and I live in Tennessee -it's a little hard to get together for a cooking party! We've even done Skype cooking days, where we make the same recipes but we have laptops in the kitchen and Skype open so we can cook “together”! One of our favorite recipes is this Banana Cream Pie. It's actually an Emeril recipe – and it's life changing. (Totally not an exaggeration). I wanted to make up a dishtowel that celebrates all the fun we've had cooking together and shows off one of our favorite recipes!
Here's a fun tutorial for making up a DIY Recipe Dishtowel – whether you have a family recipe or not! Materials: 18” x 28” piece of linen (or premade blank dishtowel) Iron On Transfer Paper Trim for Dishtowel – 3” x 42” piece of fabric (I used Rose Lane, my newest fabric collection with Riley Blake Designs) 20” ric rac Embroidery Floss Fusible Webbing Strip (I used Steam a Seam 1/4” strips) Oliso Pro Iron Recipe and Computer
Instructions: 1. Decide the recipe you'd like to use. If you are using a family recipe printed on a card, scan the card then save it to your computer. If you're using a recipe you don't have a card for, write out or copy the recipe to a text program like Word or something similar. To give the recipe a handwritten look, change the font to a script or handwriting font.
2. Reverse the image, whether you are using a scanned recipe card or you've made your own. If you don't reverse the image, the recipe will be printed backwards when you iron it on.
3. Print out your recipe on the iron on transfer paper.
4. Press the fabric for your dishtowel. You want it to be free of wrinkles and it helps if it's warm when you iron on the transfer. I recommend the highest setting on the Oliso and not using steam.
5. Place the iron on transfer on the lower half of the dishtowel, centering it between the left and right sides and centered in the bottom half of the dishtowel. I usually finger press the halfway point in the dishtowel to help with this.
6. Follow the instructions for your iron on transfer paper to transfer the recipe to your fabric. I found it really helped to use a wool mat under the fabric for a nice flat surface. I also pressed really hard with the iron.
7. Once your design is transferred, remove the paper.
8. To finish your dishtowel, hem the bottom edge of the fabric ruffle piece.
9. Sew a gathering stitch 1/4” from the top edge of the fabric and pull up the thread to gather the ruffle. Place the ruffle right sides together with the bottom edge of the dishtowel, with the raw edges together. Sew with a 3/8” seam allowance. Press the ruffle away from the dishtowel.
10. Topstitch 1/4” away from the ruffle seam. Hem the sides and top of the dishtowel by turning under the raw edges twice and sewing next to the folded edge. Make sure to hem the sides of the ruffle when you hem the sides of the dishtowel. 11. Add a bit of ricrac trim just above the topstitching on the dishtowel. I used 1/4” Steam-a-Seam to hold the ric rac in place. You can also stitch down the center of the ricrac.
12. To add the embroidery to the ricrac, bring your needle up at the bottom section of the higher curve, then put the needle back down at the top section of the lower curve. See the image below. I used 6 strands of Aurifil floss for the stitching.
That finishes off your dishtowel! Now you're all set for a gift or a fun holiday decoration! Wouldn't a Christmas dishtowel with Grandma's Fudge be so sweet?!
Anyone who has kids knows that mornings can be hectic. Here at Oliso, we know getting our young kids dressed before daycare and school is one morning stressor we wanted to eliminate. Enter the clothing organizer. On Sunday evening we can place our little one's clothing in the appropriate cubby (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) and our Director of Sales even takes it a step further - adding her son's letter of the week sharing day item to Wednesday's cubby and his soccer cleats to Friday. No more last minute trips to the convenience store for something, anything, for the all important preschool sharing day. Our Director of Content created this super cute organizer which is so easy to create with the Oliso Mini Iron. It fits right in those cubbies to iron on the useful days of the week! Here's how to make your own: Supplies: Cotton Canvas closet hanging organizer Stencil letters: M T W TH F S Heat and Bond (paper-backed fusible webbing) ½ yard Linen fabric or fusible linen-like interfacing 6 different cotton fabrics for the backgrounds large enough to fit each letter Pencil, scissors Oliso Mini Iron
Instructions: Draw stencils onto fusible interfacing (if using linen or cotton for the letters iron Heat and Bond onto the wrong side of fabric)
Cut out letters Iron Heat and Bond onto the wrong side of the background fabric
4.Iron letters onto the right side of the background fabric
5.Cut ¼” around the letters so the background fabric shows
6. Remove the paper from the back of the letters and iron to the inside of each cubby
Not all oliso irons are created equal. While each smart iron is equipped with the same iTouch® Technology and a large water tank, each model was designed with a different purpose. The guide below will help you narrow down your choices and find the perfect oliso smart iron for you.