My Crafty Stuff

Ballerina Tutu Bag Pattern & Tutorial

2011-03-17T19:37:00.000-07:00

If you are interested in this Ballerina Tutu Bag pattern you can purchase it from my etsy store.

Tutu Dress

2010-12-03T07:58:00.000-08:00

Here's a quick cute project... I bought 2 tulle fabrics 2 yards each Red & Green. Layered it.. gathered it... and sew it with a regular white t-shirt from Wal-mart ($3.50).

The Christmas Tree on the t-shirt I used Fleece.. cut green stripes and gathered it and stitch it :) and using button stitch sew the red ornaments.

Spiced up your old HUGE BAGGY sweater to a sweater dress

2010-11-21T18:44:00.000-08:00

STEP 1:
Get into your closet and find a HUGE sweater or go to your thrift store and find some huge but nice quality sweater.

This sweater doesn't flatter my body shape at all.. I look like I'm pregnant.

Step 2:
Chopped them off, waist and underneath the arms.. I think this sweater makes my arms looks humongous, so yeah cut them off!

Step 3:
Throw away those extra pieces (look at that.. look slimmer already)

Step 4:
Sew them all up, first I did the side body first.. you can use serger if you have one. I don't so I just use the whatever stitch that closed to what serger does. Or.. straight line will do too. I gave 5/8" stitching allowances.

Second.. do the arms... same basic stitches..

Last thing I sewed the arms, put right side together and pin it to the body, and sew sew sew.

Step 5:

Tried it on.. take picture... and be happy :D you did it! YAY!! and you have saved at least 30 bucks! :D

Project length: 35 minutes from cutting to finish.
Project level: Beginner-Intermediate
Project Cost: $4 sweater from Goodwill :)
Result: SEXY MOMMA!!! :D

Adult Comfy Slipper - Free Pattern

2010-11-20T14:08:00.000-08:00

Here's my first attempt to make my own version of adult slipper. To download the pattern click here.

Instructions:

1. Cut all the fabrics.

2. prepare the sole, bottom sole on the bottom, batting in the middle and the very top is the inside fabric that you have chose

3. Prepare the top: Sew the top and top lining right sides together (with the batting in the middle) along the straight edge.

4. prepare the heels: sew the top edge right sight together. Flip it and sew a straight line about 1/2" from the top.

5, Assemble the shoe: Mark the centers (top and bottom) of the sole.

With right sides together, match the center of the top with the center top of the sole.

Starting at the midpoint, sew around the OUTSIDE EDGE of the shoe. (If you start

sewing the inside edge it makes it very difficult to line up the other side.) Flip the

shoe over, start back at the midpoint and ease stitch the inside edge of the shoe. You will

need to stop every few stitches with the needle down to raise the presser foot and

adjust your fabric as you sew.

To attach the heel, line up the center back of the heel with the center bottom of the sole,

right sides together. Once again, starting at the midpoint, ease stitch down around one

side and then flip the shoe over to sew the other side.

6. Flip it inside out, and sew the top edge of the heels to the top part.

(I will take pictures next time I make another one).

Snappy Toddler Dress

2010-11-16T20:36:00.000-08:00

I found this AMAZING blog with bunch of DIY tutorials, and the most important thing is.. I found this cute dress pattern. Here's to download the pattern.

Here's Cae's first thanksgiving dress that she will wear :)

Of course not to forget the matching shoes :) everything under 1 yard :)

Tinkerbell Pumpkin

2010-10-24T12:57:00.000-07:00

Here's the pattern if you want to make one yourself :)

My Beloved Sewing Room

2010-03-04T13:22:00.000-08:00

As you can see, my sewing room has been neglected and out of controll for quite a while now. Today I finally got the energy to actually did some re-organizing and cleaning. I haven't put my sewing machine back on the table yet, since I've been sewing in the family area/play area in the basement. It's easier to work (sew) & watch Carissa at the same time if I'm sewing in her play area.

I almost gave up and called it quit, but I did it!!! :) so happy :). I hope I can keep this room somewhat like this for a while now.

No Sew Tutu

2010-02-10T22:25:00.000-08:00

not sure whether i like this hot pink and pastel combnation.. I'll ask my friend.. if she doesn't like it I can make another one.. no biggie...

Nursing Cover & Baby Shoes

2010-01-22T21:12:00.000-08:00

I found a free nursing cover from this website. So I thought I'm gonna make some since I know I will be out in public a lot with the new baby + my toddler. I'm still planning to breast feed my baby for sure at least up to 1 year (if my supplies permitting) :).

So I made several of them but so far I like this one the best, it's bigger and I added terry cloth (towel material) at the bottom back to prevent spit up or whatever spill :D I also made a baby shoes for baby Cae that match with it :)

Child's Apron

2009-12-06T14:00:00.000-08:00

Yesterday one of my bestfriends made a set of apron & oven mitt for her boyfriend's niece. I LOVE the end result of the apron and I couldn't resist to make one for my cutie pie.

Today I ran to Jo-Ann to get the fabric and made an apron & 2 oven mitts (left & right) since she likes to wear on both hand.

Here's the tutorial if you want to make one too.

Travel Diaper Wipe Case

2009-11-21T14:30:00.000-08:00

First try making a diaper wipe case :) so cute and easy! :) will sell it for $9.99 at my babysoftshoes.com shop.

Tie Onsies for my prego friends

2009-11-12T20:34:00.000-08:00

Diaper Stacker

2009-10-29T21:28:00.000-07:00

Diaper Stacker for Baby #2
Fabric: IKEA children fabler series $7.99/3 yards

I managed to make a crib sheet too :D

Fitted Crib sheet

2009-10-27T13:19:00.000-07:00

I bought a cute fabric from IKEA (the top right), and I made a fitted crib sheet using this tutorial. It's really easy and only took me about 45 minutes from start to finish.

Children Bean Bag

2009-10-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

I'm in the middle of re-doing my beloved daughter bedroom. Since I'm going to move her crib & changing table to the baby number 2 room. So I was debating either to buy one from the store.. or make one. Since I LOVE this "ultra cuddle" fabric from Jo-Ann. It's $9,99/yard but I have 50% coupon. I only need 3 yards of the fabric.

Anyway, I used the pattern from this site and spent: $43.64 for this "bean" bag. I didn't use the bean bag beans, instead I used the pillow stuffers stuff. So it's more cushy :). And as an accent I put her initial on the top "C" and the bottom "A".

Spent about give and take 2.5-3 hrs to make this from cut to finish.

Elmo!!!

2009-05-14T21:31:00.000-07:00

We're going to see elmo tomorrow, so today I went to get some elmo outfit for Carissa and I. But there weren't so many options out there. So I decided to just make it, since elmo is so easy to illustrate.

Bigger Tote :)

2009-05-14T21:28:00.000-07:00

I got a gift card to Hobby Lobby as mother's day present from my inlaw, so I grabbed more fabric to make a bigger tote. :) The first picture has a lil pocket on top right corner for Carissa's bottle :).

I ran out black thread, so I ended up using white and grey threads *sigh* oh well :) I still like the bag :).

Check Book Cover

2009-05-10T19:33:00.000-07:00

I got too overboard with this, since I have so many left over fabric from the bag. They said I need 1 yard of the canvas fabric, and I probably only used 1/2 yard. So I decided to make the checkbook cover.

Free Pattern & direction to make checkbook cover can be found here.

My New Tote

2009-05-09T21:02:00.000-07:00

I used simplicity tote pattern, it was on sale 2 patterns for $5, so I bought this pattern and a laptop bag pattern. I still need to fix the straps. But for now, I'm good.. maybe next time :)

I found this similar pattern online that you can try to make

Dora Hand Bag + Kleenex Holder

2009-05-07T12:04:00.000-07:00

I just made these set in a less of an hour :D I made these for my beloved niece, Petra. She's in town today, so I decided to make this set real quick just for fun. I had to cut the kleenex length a lil bit because this is a mini klenex holder. :) Hope she will like 'em.

Tissues/Kleenex Holder

2009-05-07T12:02:00.000-07:00

Here's what I made for a simple mother's day presents :) I got the tutorial from here
http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/2006/03/tissue-holder-tutorial.html

The Shirt Dress

2009-04-20T05:57:00.000-07:00

The Shirt Dress

2009-04-19T21:06:00.000-07:00

Today we went to Goodwill and they have 15% off on all clothings, so I picked a pretty color men's dress shirt and transformed it into Carissa Summer Dress.

I hope it will fit her.. I spent about 3 hrs making this dress.

Here's the full tutorial how to make the dress. But as you can see I just added some little stuff like the ribbon as belt and a lil pocket :).

Choo Choo Bag

2009-04-06T20:13:00.000-07:00

I made this bag in 5 minutes :D, I got the generic choo choo train fabrics from Jo-ann. I just couldn't stand the clutterness of this choo choo train toys that we have. :) Now we have the choo choo bag! :)

Softy Blankie

2009-02-19T18:30:00.000-08:00

I found this soft fleece from Wal*Mart for $7.84/yard so I made one for icha :) so soft... so soft....