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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How To Turn Scrap Fabrics into a Potholder ? Creative Handicraft

If you need a gift for a special person, or just need some time to unwind, make a creative handicraft. Crafting is therapeutic when you are feeling stressed, and it also can yield a useful or decorative item. Everyone has some measure of creativity, and with modern kits and patterns, a creative handicraft does not have to end in frustration.

If you have a sewing machine, you can learn to make a creative handicraft that will be a useful and welcome gift. Potholders are a great beginning sewing project that can be made from scrap material or unwanted clothing and a bit of double-fold bias tape. Here are the simple instructions for this creative handicraft.

First cut two 8-inch (21 cm.) squares of fabric to be the front and back of the potholder. Choose coordinating fabrics that match your kitchen for these pieces. To make it easier, you can make an 8-inch square pattern from a piece of cardboard to use as a pattern. Cut more 8-inch squares of any old fabric to stack for the filling. You want the stack of fabric squares to be thick enough to protect you from a hot pot, but thin enough to be flexible and able to be sewn through.

Stack all layers so that the outer layers are facing to the outside and the filler layers are inside. You can put a couple of large straight pins through all layers to keep them together. Now sew right across the middle of the stack. Sew across the middle again, perpendicular to the first stitching. You will have divided the square into 4 squares. Sew across the stack again from corner to corner, and again from the other corner to corner. The layers should be joined and sturdy now.

To bind off the raw edges of your creative handicraft, trim with scissors so that all the layers are again even at the edges. Open out one folded edge of the bias tape. The wider bias tape might seem to be easier to use, but the narrow type makes a neater finished product. Starting at one corner, line up the edges of the tape with the edges of the potholder, and start stitching through all layers along the first fold line, which will be about 1/4 inch from the edge. Stitch neatly and slowly, attaching the opened tape all around the edge until you reach the beginning corner. Cut the bias tape off, leaving 3 inches, (7 cm.) to make into a hanging loop.

Fold the bias tape over the raw edge so that the middle fold lines up with the outside of the potholder and the other fold is hiding the raw edge of the bias tape. Now, for best results, hand sew the binding down, forming a loop on your creative handicraft when you get to the end.

This potholder is just one example of a creative handicraft you can create if you have a sewing machine. When it is finished, you will have a useful item made from all recycled materials. Feel free to give this creative handicraft away or keep it for yourself.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Holiday Crafts: Thanksgiving Day ornamentations children can create

Holiday Craft: Thanksgiving Day Craft
All these while I have been writing about keychain as my main craft. From now on, I will try to write about other type of craft that we learn to make on our own free time. In this article, I will write about Thanksgiving Day Craft that you can start doing with your cute little children. It will be a fun time.

Thanksgiving Day is a fantastic holiday! What a spiritual replenishment to take a day to chew over over the yesteryear about just how good God has been to you and your family, to give you harvest and protection, wellness and hope. To acquire the most out of this joyful affair, create some holiday crafts with your children. These days, Thanksgiving Day often gets forced out by Hallowe'en's eery ornaments and the lights and gala affair of Christmas. With the coming after holiday crafts, your house can be adorned for this less ruffled but significant celebration.

Turkeys are a natural pick for decorations. A known project at this time of year is for a youngster to retrace around her hand and make the ensuing drawing into a turkey. The thumb is the head and the fingers are the tail feathers all showed. Although many of the turkeys that are raised for food are now the domestic white assortment, the turkeys eaten by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving Day were the wild brown ones. The tail feathers on a wild turkey are brown, but they are changeable. Capturing light and looking to be colorful. This is why children color the tail feathers in bright colors.

The turkey's head has a lappet under the pecker. This is a upright flap of loose skin that is blood-red colored. Be sure to draw this in order to make the hand turkey aspect like a turkey. Add up scrawny legs and bird feet. Once done, the kids can cut out the turkeys and hang them on the wall. It's really cute to make a whole flock of these turkeys in the sizes of all the hands in the family. The little hand shapes are particularly sweet.

Another good turkey decoration to make when making Thanksgiving Day holiday crafts is a turkey door decoration. Make a brown construction paper body and head of a turkey. Now make a large number of colored feather shapes. Each family member writes about a feather something he or she is grateful for before tying as part of the turkey's tail. Repeat till all the feathers are utilized, and string up the turkey on the front entrance to greet visitors with a message of gratitude. Make a sign to accompany the turkey that says "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good!" or simply "Be grateful!" or "We're thankful for you!" or whatever you like.

Youngsters love creating construction paper chains. To further decorate the house for Thanksgiving Day, let them make a paper chain in fall colors as one of their holiday crafts. Using 9 by 12 inch construction paper, cut the paper in half across the long side and cut the halves into one inch thick six inch long strips. Utilise a stapler to bind the ends of the strip into a circle. Coil the next strip into the circle and staple them. Keep on the process alternating colors of brown, red, yellow, and orange. When the chains are long, you can drap them along the ceiling or stair rail. If you don't make the door turkey, the children can write something they're thankful for on each strip of paper before adding it to the chain.

Thanksgiving Day is too nice a holiday to let the other more commercial holidays crowd it out. By making holiday crafts to decorate the home for Thanksgiving, you can keep this day special, too. The extended family, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc., will be pleased to see the holiday crafts the young ones have made to decorate the house and make it cheerful for their visit.

If you're wondering how to make keychains then you information are available if you just seek for it. Interestingly I have found some people that are selling tutorials on how to make keychains name with wires.


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You can have all the skills under your belt that you need in this ebook to make a constant $1,574 a week, or even more, you can sell more from the comfort of your own home through a website or ebay !

Or you can just add to your hobby list with the added bonus of being able to make Birthday and Christmas presents !

If you decide to purchase, I really wish you the best of luck with this amazing skill that has seen me through all these years..

Get it HERE

All the best,
Cornelius



 

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