Big Busted Sewing Question

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For making/re-creating new clothes that are involving the infamous "tube top" and other similar strapless wonders...what do you add (if anything) to get enough support? I can't just...wear a tube top.

Thanks everyone!

Flip Flop

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I made my first reversible bag!

Side A



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I got BOREDDD

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my new purses. and a box

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Winter hat/ear warmer help

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I need help!!
I need a good crochet pattern for ear warmers. Forgive me, it is late and I cannot remember the name for them, if there even was a name.
They were the circle things, like headbands, that fit just over your ears. It was like a giant headband, but it covered your ears.
I did go thru the crochet links in the memories and did not find what I was looking for.
I make and donate the stuff to charity and I have a bunch of hats already made, so I want to make some of them too.
I want to get a heads up on the winter season. It gets so cold here.

Thanks!!

cutie cute hair clips

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i made these last night... yeah i know they are super girly but hey thats me.

Fabric covered Corkboard.

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Okay folks, here is what I made the other night.
For never making one, I think it turned out alright. I need to use less spray on glue next time.
I bought those flat marbles, and glued tacks on them and made pretty decorative tacks. I also decorated the edges with flat marbles and glue. I bought some 5x7 sized watercolor paper, spray on glue, ribbons, and have been making little picture backgrounds with fabric and mounting my favorite pics on them too. I used the garland around the top edges of the board after it was hung up. It looks spiffy around the edges.
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Memory Quilt

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Hey all. I made this quilt awhile back as a graduation gift for my best friend, and I thought I'd share.

The process:
I had a stock pile of old blue jeans and so I cut out 44 nine by nine inch squares. I made "patches" of different things that she loved or were big things in her life (like the school logo and clubs she was in) out of felt and glued them onto the squares with tacky glue. I cut out a square of fabric that equaled the size of four of the smaller squares for the middle and cut out felt letters to spell her name. The eight squares around her name square, I used a bleach pen (wonderful things!) and wrote out quotes that meant something to her and let them set over night. Then I washed them out by hand the next day. There are 8 squares that have pics of us and other friends on them that I printed on to printable fabric and sewed on. The back isn't pictured, but I pieced together random pieces of flannel (cuz is so comfortable) crazy quilt style. As this was my first quilt, I didn't really know how to go about putting the layers together, so I layed out the back, the batting, and the top on as they would be when it was finished and just sewed all the way around. It shifted a bit, so it's not quite perfect, but that was ok. Then I just took bias tape and went around the edges.

It was an awkward process, since I kinda' made up my own rules as I went along. It took a long time to finish, but she loved it and it turned out to be a pretty good college grad gift.

Click HERE to see the quilt.

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( Curtains and a neat way to display pictures )

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Gianormous Sale at Hobby Lobby!!

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If you have a Hobby Lobby in your neck of the woods, head on over!
I got 2 blanks shirts and two pairs of flip flops for a total of $5. Woohoo!


More Stuff on Sale:
http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/weekly/specials/specials.cfm

cross-posted like woah.

::Broken needles::

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I'm sorry to re-post about a similar problem I'm having.

It seems I keep breaking my machine needles. I've figured out that it is not the size of the needle that is causing it. I've been using size 16 and 18 needles to sew through thick fabric. When it's going through 4 layers of canvas ( or even material not as thick ) it will get stuck and won't go through. Also the needle will bend slightly to the left. Then eventually it will break. I've broken 3 needles in less than a week!

What am I doing wrong?

How can I fix this problem?

fun picture idea

[cookiezs.livejournal.com]

hello =)

i recently graduated high school and my best friend made me the sweetest thing. she bought a frame (its pretty big, im going to estimate about 18x24) which had a sheet in it of little cutouts for pictures. the frame was black and the paper inside was white. then she decorated the paper part with little stickers of flowers and butterflies, and just added a bunch of pictures of us in it throughout our high school years (for ex, prom, her sweet 16, halloween.. etc). its the cutest thing! heres a picture:



i recommend this idea for anyone who wants to give someone a special and personal gift.

crossposted to crafty_gifts

<3 jessica

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Didn't see anything in the faq's!!!

1. I am planning on using felt to make some wallets and I've encountered that felt pics up tons of little lint balls. Do you think if I sprayed it with somekind of acrylic medium or something that might work to solove that problem?

2. Does anyone know where you can buy those little plastic photo inserts for wallets?

And just so this isn't text only here's some photos of recent projects

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I need some help from my fellow polymer clay enthusiasts!

I usually prefer to glaze my work, but lately some projects have necessitated sanding and buffing. So, I have 2 questions:

1) If you buff your work, what do you use? I tried a regular cloth, which did next to nothing; then a shoe-buffing cloth, which helped a little but didn't come close to getting it really shiny. I can't afford any fancy machinery. Are there any other good methods I can try?

2) I have tried sanding some things made with black clay, and they've gotten discolored. I've sanded everything under water in the sink, as instructed; and for this last project, only used 800-grit sandpaper. Still got discolored. Any way to keep this from happening? Is 800-grit still too coarse for black clay items?

Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you! :)

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a knitting question....

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I am not sure if anyone can answer this here, but its worth a shot! My boyfriends mother just got some beautiful light wool to make a shawl out of for a wedding...now, the woman at the shop gave her a "simple pattern" to use, so she didnt have to buy one. the pattern, I (with my basic knitting skills) can't figure out. it is as follows
K1* forward K2 together repeat from *K1 last stitch
now, this shawl is just a block of knitting, not something triangular or anything like that, I am quite confused. Can anyone help with some simple instructions?
thanks so much!

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Hey does anyone know if there is like some sort of glue that I could use to paste a record to fabric????

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hmmm. I checked the memories, probably not well (I have a hard time doing that) but where I checked I didn't see this.

What would the best way be to take high top chucks and turn them into low tops? I was thinking about just cutting them, but I wanted some opinions first before I just chop them up and they are screwed. lol. any help is great :)

♥katie

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Does anyone here have any experience with the Sizzix die-cutter?

I was going to buy one but I wanted to get some feedback on it.

Anyone?

Thanks. :-*!

Pictuuures...

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Sorry about earlier...I posted my newest way to display a series of photos and I didn't explain much of anything...



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