Majik Threads

Me on a blog!

2012-10-15T19:58:00.001-04:00

I have been following an awesome blog for a little over a year now. It is great, I love Rachelle. She is so cute. I decided to advertise with her to see if I can drum up any business for my etsy store. hint hint.

Anyway, I am going to try it and see what kind of response I get. She featured her new advertisers on her page, and I am on it! Yay! I feel important and proud all into one! I thought I would share her awesome blog and my awesome news!

http://www.fingerprintsonthefridge.com/

New found food blog

2012-10-10T20:36:00.003-04:00

I was honored to do hair for a wedding party this past weekend. It was on a beautiful farm in Lexington, VA. I met a ton of cool, new people like I normally do when I do weddings. So, I met this cool girl named Kath. I started talking to her while I did her hair (below) and realized that she is awesome!

She has her own, very successful blog. She is kinda famous in the blog world. She blogs about food, and she recently had a baby. She also blogged about being pregnant and now its about the baby. Also very cool.

I have never met someone who actually has a blog, let alone, a successful one. I loved going through and reading her post and looking at her pics. She posted pics on her blog from the wedding. i got kind of excited because she took pics of her hair, that I did. Anywho, I thought it was cool because thousands of people read her blog, therefore saw her awesome hairdo!

So please enjoy her blog! http://www.katheats.com/these-boots-were-made-for-dancin

Pink Hair...what?

2012-10-05T21:07:00.003-04:00

As most of you know, I am a hairdresser by day, crafter by night. I had an awesome client today who wanted pink hair for breast cancer awareness month. She was totally cool and let me use my creative style. I love the result. It looks awesome! I am totally pinning this to compete with the other cool colored hair pics I see on there everyday! Enjoy and message me with any questions!

Before...

After... Blam!

Pink Awesomeness!

Flower Girl Dresses

2012-08-27T20:05:00.001-04:00

As promised.... the flower girl dresses!

I was lucky enough to make 3 little flower girl dresses for my friend Justin and Nicole's wedding, and their beautiful nieces. First of all, I could have put a paper bag on them and they still would look adorbs!

So we looked at some photos to get ideas and came up with a simple black and white tutu dress.

I ordered the lovely flower for the sash from the etsy store, http://www.etsy.com/shop/Likron. She is in the Ukraine and did a fabulous job. I loved her flowers and asked her to make me 3 custom black ones for the girls. When I received them in the mail, I was so excited. They were even more beautiful than I expected. She is super nice and accommodating. I highly recommend her! :)

I was super pleased with the way the outfits turned out. The girls are so tiny, they looked awesome. Especially with their pink glitter TOMS! Cuteness overload.

One of the nieces is only 4 months old. She is sooo stinking cute. She looked presh when her outfit was on.

So without further ado... Here they are! I had to wait until after the wedding to share. I didn't want to ruin the surprise!

Funky Lime Green & Purple Wreath

2012-07-23T17:21:00.001-04:00

I was already getting tired of the wreath I made about a month ago.... so why not make another one?

I love these colors together. All of the items to make the wreath were about $22 from Michaels. It would have been less if I had brought my coupon with me. I would have saved like $2.50. Oh well.

I used a grapevine wreath, one large flower, one bushel of purple feather flower things, 2 sprays of glass purple and green beads, one letter J, one spool of ribbon and green paint. Cut it all up and shoved it in the wreath.

It was really easy to make, just had to wait for the paint to dry. Hope you guys like it!

Close up of the cute flowers and glass beads.

Crochet Bangle

2012-07-22T20:50:00.001-04:00

I made these cool bracelets for my friend Candice for her birthday. She loves unique and quirky things, so I thought that this would be perfect.

I bought these plastic bangles at Micheals for $1 each, not too bad. Then tie off the yarn to the bracelet. I use a L crochet hook but you can use any size you would like.

Go to the top of the bracelet with your hook, wrap the yarn around to start your stitch. Take the hook to the bottom of the bracelet and pick up yarn, bring hook to the top of the bracelet, yarn over and pull thru 2 loops. This is basically a single crochet but you have to pull thru 2 loops to get around bracelet.

The thread will roll around the bangle which is ok. Make sure that all of the knots are pulled tight for a neater look.

Continue this all around bracelet, pushing the thread close together to cover bangle.

When crochet is complete, cut off end and weave thru bracelet to hide string.

The crochet row is not straight so you will need to turn the yarn around the bracelet to get it in a pattern that you like. I like it kind of zig zag.

These are fun and easy to make. I am totally making some of these in Hokie colors for football season!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Virginia Tech Yard

2012-06-18T13:46:00.002-04:00

Can you tell who my favorite team is? We love our Hokies around here! We are in the heart of Hokie Country and love to show off our spirit. We have a few...umhum.. a lot of Hokie Decor! Just thought I would share some of my pics of the yard! Enjoy!

As a Hokie. there is no such thing as too much flair!!!

Patio Decor

2012-06-18T13:40:00.001-04:00

Continuing on with my decorating of the front porch... with burlap... my new thang!

I made some cool burlap pillows to put on the front porch to match the wreath I made and the new cushions.

I bought the burlap at Jo Ann Fabric. It is really cheap. Then I cut the burlap into squares, and sewed the 3 sides up. Then I free hand painted the J on them. I waited until after I sewed the sides because I knew that it would be crooked if I did it first. I have a problemo with keeping things straight. So, I slid some newspaper inside so the paint would not go thru the back. I painted a couple of coats on the J. Stuffed if with stuffing, and sewed up the bottom. I think they look great. It was super easy.

Now I guess I have a themed front porch. Burlap and Monograms! Enjoy!

New Summer Decor

2012-06-06T21:30:00.000-04:00

Sorry I have been slacking, like really slacking. I have completed some cool new crafts lately, just been too lazy to post about them. I will try to be better!

Firsts things First, I made a super cute wreath for my front door. It was so easy. Message me if you would like the instructions on how I made it. So simple and inexpensive. I think it turned out great. I am totally digging the monogram thing.

What do you think?

I also made some seat cushions for the bench and rocking chairs on my front porch. I got some foam and fabric from JoAnns. It was on sale which was a bonus. Whipped them up, added a little color to the front porch. I am pleased.

Just wait until you see what I am cooking up in my head! I will try to get busy with it this weekend. Also, some other cuteness coming later on! Here is a hint, flower girl dresses! Yay!

Update to wreath

2012-01-18T21:04:00.000-05:00

This is an update to the wreath I made last week. The directions are on an earlier blog post.

I made a wreath for my friend who rocks, and complimented my mad skillz. Since I already made one last week, I knew I needed to tweek a few things. I painted the wooden letter that went on the wreath. I didnt know how to attach it since I used t pins to attach the fabric one. So I put velcro on the wreath and letter and ta da- attachement! I think this looks so much better and neater. I am glad my pal wanted me to make another one!

So, I am wondering if I should sell these on Etsy? What do you think? I am nervous about it. I dont know if I think its cute or if it really is. If you guys think it would sell, what price point?

Thanks so much for your feeback, I love comments!

Burlap Bucket

2012-01-18T20:57:00.000-05:00

So, I was trying to figure out what I could put on my front porch for some decorations. I have a wind problemo on my front porch so topiaries blow over along with everything else.

So, I went to the Farm and Tractor store and got galvanized feed bucket for about $14.99. Then I went to Joann Fabrics and got a yard of burlap. They have different colors but I chose good old natural for $3.99 a yard. Got some stencils and paint from Michaels, a glue gun and I was ready to go. Totally pulling this idea out of my butt with no real goal invisioned.

I cut the burlap to go around the bucket. I laid it our flat and painted the stencil. I did my monogram and some flourish on the sides. I used a sponge brush and black paint, dabbed it on. Once it dried I glued it on the bucket with the glue gun. I wrapped the burlap around the bottom so it wouldnt rust sitting outside. I also made a smaller one.

I put river rock in the bottom so the stinkin wind would blow it off the porch. I got some pinecones for winter decor for 99cents at Micheals. Kinda bummed bc they only had 2 bags. I need more pinecones to fill the bucket. It looks kind of lonely now. Once I get more, I think it will look awesome. I am going to add some white lights at Christmas and change the decor each season. So, since it looked pitiful with the lame amount of pine cones, I stacked the bigger bucket on the smaller.

Not quite the awesomeness I was going for, but I am pretty pleased. Once it is filled it will be epic.

New Wreath

2012-01-09T19:33:00.000-05:00

After I took down all of my Christmas decorations, I got a little bummed. My front porch looked bare. I didnt feel like putting up any of my old wreaths so I thought, huh, I'll make one.

I looked through Pinterest for some ideas. I really didnt find any. They all looked too difficult to me and I also have no attention span. So if a project looks like it would take to long, Im not doing it.

So, I kind of had an idea in my head when I went to the craft store. This is what I got. Sorry for the lack of detail.

Straw wreath $2.99
Burlap Fabric $2.99- on sale- 1 yard
Organza ribbon $2.50
Wood letter $3.99
2 zebra print flowers $6.99 each ( but used 2 40% off coupons) Woot Woot
T pins $3.99

So, this project was under $20

First, I cut the Burlap fabric into 3 inch strips. I wrapped the strips around the wreath, attached them with the T pins.

Second, I attached the flowers to the wreath, also using T pins. I cut the stems off the flowers and hooked them to the wreath. I used the extra leaves to ad around the flowers.

Third, I wrapped extra burlap around the wood letter just to fill in the white on the letter.

Fourth, I wrapped the organza ribbon around the wood letter. Using my glue gun and T pins to attach.

Fifth, Attach the letter to the wreath using T pins thru the fabric into the wreath.

Lastly, using the remaining organza ribbon, loop around wreath and tie into a know to hang on wreath hanger.

Ta Da, there is your easy wreath!

Infinity Scarf

2011-11-14T20:25:00.000-05:00

I have been seeing these scarves everywhere lately. I love them. Here is my first shot at making one. I didnt use a pattern. I just made it up from single crochets then attached the two ends. I used a jumbo hook. It didnt take long at all. I am making a few more. Basically what I did was make a chain to my desired width, then did single crochet until it was long enough. It made a cute square pattern when it was stretched. Cool huh?

Pinterest Creation

2011-11-14T20:16:00.000-05:00

This is my first attempt at a project from Pinterest. I was anxious at first because it requires the sewing maching and I hate my sewing machine. Well, I hate it because 1. I have no patience 2. I taught myself how to use it so technically I am sure I am not doing it right 3. I hate having to get it out and setting it up because I am lazy.

So, I decided to try to be positive about the whole thing and try it. It was going rather smoothly until my bobbin ran out of thread which really ticked me off. I was doing good, trying not cuss until that happened, oh well.

Here is a pic of how it was supposed to look.

And... here is mine

It didnt get as ruffly as the original one but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I think it was the type of material I used.

Here is the link with the directions
http://www.pinklemonade-blog.com/2011/09/ruffle-scarf-tutorial.html

Tutu Dress Tutorial

2011-11-12T21:22:00.000-05:00

As I posted before, I made some pretty cute Halloween costumes, if I do say so myself! Anyway, I thought I would post a tutorial on how I made them. This is my first tutorial so bear with me. It is really hard to explain things when you are used to just doing them, but here goes. Please message me if you have any questions or if I have just plain ole confused you. Also, forgive the pics. :)

Elmo and Cookie Monster Outfit Tutorial

Supplies

Crochet tube top (I found mine on EBay $3.95)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/350490354578

3-4 Rolls of tulle of desired color 6 x 25”

¾ inch non roll elastic (desired length equal to waist)

Felt

Thread

Stick Pins

Ribbon – 1 inch wide

Tutu

Begin with making the waistband using the elastic. Cut to desired measurements of waist and sew together.
Cut the tulle into strips 26” long.
Attach the strips to the tutu. Fold the tulle two times to make it skinny, and then fold again in half. Making sure it is even.
Holding the strips, insert folded side down in elastic; bring ends of tulle through the loop. Hold the knot and pull until snug. Continue this all the way around covering all of the elastic. ( I slide the pieces together while added tulle to make the tutu full and so none of the elastic shows)
After the elastic is fully covered, we are going to another layer of tulle to make tutu super fluffy. In the knots made by the previous tulle, fold tulle same as before. Attach the tulle to the previous knots in same manor as before. Continue all the way around on each of the original tulle strips.
Set tutu aside for now. We are finished with tutu.

Top (Face)

Since the top is already completed, all you need to do is attach the face to it.

Find the picture of the character that you want to make. I searched under images on yahoo, zoomed in on the image. Then I held a piece of paper up to the screen and traced the eyes, nose, etc. (Very artsy I know!) or you could cut it free hand if you are really good.
If you traced the face on the computer like I did, cut the pieces out and attach them to the felt sheets. Use a pin to attach to felt and cut around paper.
Place the pieces of your face to the crochet top and attach with pin to hold in place.
Sew pieces of felt face to the crochet top with coordinating thread.
Yay! Now you are done with the top!

Attaching Pieces Together

Attach the bottom of the crochet top to the top of the tutu with pins. I turned the tutu inside out and connected the shirt to the inside of the waistband. (Kind of like tucking in the shirt into the tutu)

Sew the top to the tutu.

Flip the outfit right side out.

Cut the coordinating ribbon desired length to make a halter tie around the neck. Fold ribbon in half, and then sew onto top of crochet top to hold the dress up.

Fluff up tutu and Ta Da! You have a tutu dress costume!

Final results of the Halloween Costumes!

2011-10-31T20:38:00.001-04:00

Here is a pic of the Elmo and Cookie Monster costumes I made. They look so cute on the girls! I will share more pics later. Message me for info on how to make them!

I have posted a tutorial on how to make these on my next post!

Scarfs Galore

2011-10-31T20:27:00.002-04:00

Here are the additions to my scarf family! You can find them on Etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/MajikThreads

Panthers scarf

2011-10-24T16:27:00.000-04:00

I had a sick day today. Which means, I didnt go anywhere and was supposed to rest. I cant sit still so I decided to craft. I had a request for a Carolina Panther scarf like the Hokies scarf I make. Well here it is. I am pretty please with it. I love the colors. I was rather productive on my sick day! This is in my Etsy store if anyone is interested!

Halloween Costumes. Take 1

2011-10-19T18:55:00.000-04:00

So, my amazing client Kim, asked me to make her 1 year old, twin girls Halloween costumes. She sent me pics from Etsy of an Elmo and Cookie Monster tutu costume. Well, since I am the tutu master, I agreed!

Once I got all of the materials, it really was easy and kind of fun. I had to re-do the faces but that wasnt a big deal. I was really please with the way they turned out. I might make some more, who knows? I like the whole tutu dress idea. I am also in the process of making my nephews Halloween costume so stay tuned!

These pics dont show the ribbon that ties around the neck that is a halter type style.

Not too shabby for my first time, huh?

Yarn Scarf

2011-09-26T20:31:00.001-04:00

I made these scarves to sell on Etsy. I thought they would be easy to make and super cute. I for one as a gift a few years back for Christmas, not Hokie though.

I made them in Hokie team colors. They turned out so cute. But, they are a pain to make. Getting all of the yarn in stock, cutting the yarn and ribbon. trying to untangle it, etc, etc. So these will probably be the last ones I make. Enjoy!

Decorated Double Crochet Purse

2011-09-19T17:18:00.000-04:00

This is the purse from the double crochet purse that I posted the pattern for on this blog. I decided to add some flair to it for my neice. I added some paper flowers that I made by attaching brads to hold them together. You just put the brads in and attach them to the purse. I thought it was fun and great for a little girl!

First attempt at a sweater

2011-09-19T16:58:00.001-04:00

I have been working on this sweater off and on since May. I was really excited to make it. So I was a little disappointed when I finished :(. It turned out a bit smaller than it was supposed to be. Also, it was hard to hide the seam when I stitched it together. Both my fault! So at least my niece, Emma Grace was dying for it to be hers. At least she likes my crocheting skills or lack there of.

I added some flair and made it look the best it could considering the circumstances. Here is the link for the pattern and what it was supposed to look like.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/simple-crochet-shrug-2

Baby Hats

2011-05-09T12:51:00.000-04:00

My friend Corey is an amazing photographer. She gets the cutest pics of babies! This is actually her little one doing the modeling for me in 2 hats that I made. This is my little start in baby wear!

Crocheter's Friend

2011-04-07T20:14:00.000-04:00

My awesome client, Lawre made me this cool crochet hook holder. She makes them and sells them. I love it! The colors are great and it has so much room to hold everything. There are slots for all of your hooks, with labels, and a zipper pouch for scissors, etc. I was so excited to get it and load my hooks in it! You can check out her website http://www.lawreslaine.com/ or visit her etsy store Lawres Laine

Stegosaurus Hat

2011-03-29T20:49:00.000-04:00

I made this hat for my nephew, Brodie a few months ago. He loved it and it looked so cute on him, but I may be a little partial. It was super easy to make. I got the pattern from http://www.totsandbottoms.blogspot/