Inspired by the metal letters from Anthropologie, Ivory Owls made her own, and you can too!
Click here to Visit Ivory Owls for a free tutorial.
Feb 17, 2011
Feb 3, 2011
How to make a Valentine Card Mailbox
Valentine's Day is just around the corner! Time to start thinking about cards and mailboxes so I'll be ready for the big day at school! Here are my favorite valentine mailboxes. Click on the links below each box for instructions.
Alien Chews a Card - Instructions Here
Cat Chews a Card - Instructions Here
Valentine Mailbox - Instructions Here
Free Lumberjack Hat Pattern and Tutorial
About the cutest hat I've ever seen! I love it.
Click here to visit Delia Creates for the free pattern and tutorial.
Preserving A Child's Artwork
First I took a photo of the art I wanted to preserve. Then using my computer reduced them to the size I wanted and printed them in black and white on regular copy paper.
Then I transfered the drawing onto prewashed and dried, white cotton muslin simply by placing the fabric on top of the drawing and tracing it lightly with a pencil. Holding the fabric and paper up to a window so the light shines through may be necessary if you can't see the print through the fabric.
Then I used embroidery stitches to fill in the artwork. If you haven't done embroidery and would like to try this wonderful craft click here for a link with easy to follow embroidery instructions by video.
I used strips of colored cotton material to boarder each piece of white artwork and then sewed them all together to make a quilt top. After machine quilting and binding - they were finished.
Here are some photo's of the finished quilts.
I love the children's artwork and the quilt will become even more valuable as they grow older.