Making Archives – Page 9 of 16 – Sinead O'Brien, eSTEAMed

Tips on sewing a leather handbag

My Grandmother was a paragon of style to the very end. If there was one thing she taught me it was to always carry a leather handbag. Even the most basic of leather handbags have become wildly expensive. Leather hide however still appears to be quite affordable. Sewing your own leather bag can be quite straight forward.

Knitting Making

Beekeeper’s quilt – The challenge continues

Beekeeper’s quilt. The challenge continues. I'm up to about 250 cute squishy little hexipuffs.

Making Patterns

Lalaloopsy Free Dress Pattern – Half and Half Knitting and Sewing

This Lalaloopsy Free Dress Pattern - Half and Half Knitting and Sewing is a simple pattern for a half knit and half sewn Lalaloopsy dress, thus the name. It should fit Lalaloopsy and similar sized dolls. For a similar dress to fit Blythe sized dolls please go here.

Sew Magazine Jolly Santa gets lilypad arduino

Arduino Making Sewing

Sew Magazine Jolly Santa goes techno

While at the Hobbycraft show in Birmingham at the NEC recently I picked up a copy of Sew Magazine with a Jolly Santa sewing kit. It's cute but I thought it could benefit from some further brightening up....with LEDs

wearable electronic santa - Sew Magazine Jolly Santa

Arduino Making Sewing

Sew Electric

Given the easy availability of sew-able electric components these days I'm currently having a go at wearable electronics.

Dolls Making

Blythe Reroot

Making

Mannequin leg 2 – the bronze sequel

As a follow on to Mannequin leg Del Oro - Golden mannequin leg I have painted a second mannequin leg. This time I've gone with bronze. This leg was a bit more battered than the previous and needed a little TLC (a.k.a pollyfilla and sanding). I took about 6 coats of acrylic paint and now looks quite stylish (if your into gilded mannequin legs... which apparently I am.)

Knitting Making

Grrlfriend Market Bag

This is the third time I've knitted this one. I absolutely love this pattern; Grrlfriend Market Bag. It's so much fun to see the looks on the faces of people…

Photography Places

Toulouse

Photography Places

Crich Tramway Village

Photography

Chateau Wedding

I confess it had been an age since I've taken out my camera for some proper photo taking practice and I was definitely a wee bit rusty. Luckily with a wedding this beautiful set in a chateau in the French hills some photos were bound to turn out OK, if only by accident ..no matter how much alcohol is involved.

Making

Mannequin leg Del Oro – Golden mannequin leg

Online shopping is wonderful. It's so easy to pick up all sorts of things at any time of the day or night. Is it any surprise that sometimes you end up making the occasional purchase that maybe you didn't think through? Sometimes you suddenly find you're the proud owner of 4 left mannequin legs. Hay.. it could happen to anyone... right? Don't answer that.

Making Sewing

Simple Sew Lottie blouse

The June edition of Love Sewing came with a free pattern for the Lottie blouse. I confess I only bought the magazine for the pattern. I had some vintage fabric lying about at home that I thought would be perfect (read delightfully psychedelic) for just such a pattern.

Dolls Making

DIY Blythe Eyechips

I never would have believed just how easy it is to DIY Blythe Eyechips. All you need are some "14mm Clear Adhesive Cabochons" like those sold by Antiqued on Etsy and…

Making

DIY Corkies – champagne cork cake toppers

So apparently Corkies are a thing. I had never heard of them until a friend mentioned that she wanted some for her upcoming wedding. Since she kindly let me dye her purple for my wedding (Not on purpose but lets just say that I learned an important lesson. Polyester dye is finiky).. Anyway.. I figured offering to make her cake topper was the least I could do. So WTF are Corkies? Corkies are champagne cork cake toppers. You can buy released champagne corks from various places such as eBay and Etsy. The process of painting up some corkies goes a little like this;