Chrysants Silk Brooch Tutorial

Want to try a simple, easy, yet fabulous project ? This is it :D Chrysants Silky Brooch. It is so easy and make me want to make it again and again.

What you need :
- Silky fabric (I use real silk, but you can use any cheap poly chiffon, shantung, faux silk, or anything, as long as it feel silk and has some glossy surface). Cut it in bias
- Glue gun & the glue
- Metal Brooch (you can use felt as brooch backing, but metal brooch is sturdier and holds the flower better than felt)

How to make it :

1. Cut the fabric in bias. Cut in size 10 x 80 cm, for a 10 cm bloom. You can adjust the length and wide of the fabric according to the diameter of your bloom. Fold the fabric into half, press lightly, and baste the the fabric joint. Cut the folded fabric every 5 mm ( as the image no. 1) till the end of the fold

2. Pull the basting thread, and join the ruffles. You'll get a beautiful full bloom of white chrysantemums. Don't forget to tie the thread' s end

3. Prepare the metal brooch and your glue gun. Glue the back of the flower

4. Put the flower in front of the metal brooch.

It had been a great addition to my classic jacket, or maybe I can put it in front of my party clutch ? Sure it will. Ok, now's your turn to try making it. Prepare for being addicted :)

Modern Shabby Purse

Here is my second take on framed purse. It is bigger than the framed coin purse that I have made before. Its size is 14 cm wide x 11 cm tall. Now I use 4 3/4 inches brass frame (without hole to stitch the fabric into the purse, unlike the 2 3/4 inches frame that I had ever worked with) so I have to glue and press its frame into the fabric.

Unfortumately, I make few mistakes :( First, I should have add 0,5 cm more to the pattern. The second is I put too much glue on the frame. Silly me *_*. Afterall, I consider this purse as a failed product. If I was an Etsy seller, maybe I would add its production cost into my product development cost account, so it can be tax deductible :)

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Year End Freebies Round-Up

Here's a little bit of my favourite freebies of this year. I love tiny & bit pieces, such as hand stitches/embroideries from Doodle Stitching, laptop sleeve from Burdastyle, cute and odd-shaped pincushions, Sarubobo plushies from Mairuru, cute toddler dress, and framed clutch from Liaspace. I also love jackets' free patterns !! And I'm glad that my make-it!! list of FREE jacket patterns came from Burdastyle

Clockwise - From top left :
Winged Unicorn from Little Dear Tracks
Fabric Pinwheels by Sandi Henderson
Adult Button Shirt into Toddler Dress by Cheytown from Craftster
Circus Elephant Sampler by Aimee Ray
Laptop Sleeve with Button by Jdasaro from Burdastyle
Gift Box Pincushion
Naomi kimono style jacket by Burdastyle
Spring Sampler by Aimee Ray
How to make Sarubobo Plush by Mairuru
Talea jacket by Burdastyle
Scrappy Clutch by Lia from Liaspace
Mushroom Pincushion tutorial by Little Dear Tracks

Kimono Pajama for A Birthday Boy

This is a kimono pajama set I made for my birthday boy, my oldest son. Due to many datelines at the end of this year, I couldn't make him a super-georgeous birthday costume, as the manhattan dress her sister got from me.

A week from his birt-date, my boy reminded me my promise to make him a pajama set. So I dug my PDF tutorials collection, and found this kimono top from Habitual. If you want her pattern, you can simply ask Amy from Habitual via email politely

The pant is from my own pattern, based on an existing pant. Sorry, I can't write many words, because I write this from my office, hush.. don't tell my supervisor about this, okay ?

Happy birthday my boy !!

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Inspirations Board#2 & Happy Birthday to Me

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Leslie Feist, a Canadian born singer/songwriter, famously known as "Feist", is on my Youtube favorite for months. I love everything about her. The songs, the lyrics, the way she dance, the style, everything. If you don't know about her, you must start googling and searching on youtube, and you'll find her amazing pieces everywhere

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Embeded : Feist' Mushaboom :

Now, about a bag, The Cicada Bag from Wondrlanding reminds me much about my hometown

Cicada Bag from Wondrlanding

And last sunday was my birthday. I turned 29 !! Happy birthday to me. I had a good weekend to spend my birth day. I and my family went to Sukabumi & Bogor. It was a super-tiring holiday trip. I got a lot of head-ache & pain. Well, life must go on !!

Above : A bunch of documents in my office that I must dig. Please be co-operative :)

Technique Tuesday : Drafting Your Own Peterpan Collar

I should post this on Tuesday, but I didn't have enough time, so this post is a little bit late. If you see its title: "Technique Tuesday", and last monday's title: Girly Monday, apparently I try to post something everyday. Not just something, of course. Maybe some projects & DIYs that can inspire you. Actually, I don't want to use word "Technique" because it sounds that I am somewhat a handy and advanced seamstress. I am not a handy or advanded seamstress in anyway, so please email me when you find something wrong on my post, and I'll fix it :)

Today's Technique Tuesday is about peterpan collar. Have you see my Bibbee Dress Tutorial ? I made the dress' collar using the same technique. It is really simple and it works best when you try to draft your own pattern, or when you do some re-fashion on old T-shirt. I choose peterpan collar, because it is an easy type of collar. There are many types of collar in this sewing world, maybe we will discuss them later

Flat Collar

"Flat" here means the collar's shape follows the shape of your neckline, shirt's front and shirt's back. It is really flat and you can not stand it. It only consists of a single pattern

A picture below is an illustration on how flat peterpan collar will look like :

Here is how I make it (The collar's wide is adjustable, so you can make it wider or narrower than my collar)



Half-Stand Collar

I think is a not right word to describe this thing. But I don't find an appropriate word that can exactly describe what I mean, so I call it "half-stand" collar. Its shape is not really flat as the flat collar. It looks like you can stand it, but you can't

Here is how to make it. It is just a litlle bit different from the flat collar. I just shift the back pattern 6 cm from the shoulder seam

Basics : You can make other type of collar using this technique. All you have to do is put a front pattern in front of back pattern, or reverse, and join them at a point where front neckline and back neckline will meet. Then shift it 2 cm or more, according to what type of collar you want to make. If you narrower the shift, the collar will be more flat

I hope this post can help you :)

Reference : Buku Penuntun Membuat Pola Busana Tingkat Dasar by Soekarno

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Girly Monday : CLAMP Inspired Jewellery Box

So, do you still remember my weekend inspirations board images from Cardcaptor Sakura(CCS) ? Call me child-like or anything, but I am a forever fan of CLAMP, the creator of CCS, especially their famous wing-y (*is that even a word?*) things :) Look at this jewellery box I made as a gift for a friend of mine. I made it with wing !! It's so CLAMP ! One wing, unfortunately. But I bet it's better than I clutter the small box with two wings :D

My friend and I are both hard-core fans of CLAMP, so I guess this box will delight her, as much as it delights me

I made the base box from cardboard, and covered it with purple synthetic-leather. It is not fully covered with leather. Actually, I wanted to cover the whole cardboard with synthetic-leather, but I didn't have more time. The due date was ahead :(

The wing is from silk + batting. I chose silk fabric to highlight the shape of the wing and to draw more attention to it, instead of the box. Because the box is not so neat. I don't want people look closely at my box. Just focus on the wing, please :)

Just being around with picnik.com, try few of its effects. I tried Boost & 1960's effect + collage for all photographs in this post


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Inspirations Board #1 Cardcaptor Sakura & DNAngel

I collected some pics from Cardcaptor Sakura & DNAngel, mf all-time favorite mangas/animes.
Today's keyword is WING !

This winged-heart shape backpack is surely on my to-do list. Anyone have any suggestion on what fabric that I shall use to make it ?

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If there was this kind of uniform when I was in school, I would love to wear one

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