craftgrrl | Jul. 2nd, 2007

Jul. 2nd, 2007

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( jewelry )

Current Mood: creative

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This is part of a project in progress (I plan on posting when I have all the items completed as well). I'm creating Harry Potter Deathly Hallows care packages for a couple of friends that I'm unable to be with to celebrate the book release with.

I've been to a million different webpages and have seen a lot of clever ideas, and this is one that I combined ideas to come up with- 'magnetic poetry' style spells.

( Accio Tutorial! )

For being so incredibly simple, I love the way they turned out!

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hey, question for all you book alterers out there..

I've been looking through the memories, but none really address this that I could find, and if i'm wrong, point me in the right direction and I'll sit back down and be quiet. :)

I have a small paperback book whose pages are separating from each other, and in turn, from the spine. Now, it's not bound with thread, but was glued to the spine. All the book bindery type links I see talk about the stitching and such, but seeing as how the pages are all separate, sewing them isn't really an option as there is no signature to go through.. And a lot of the posts say 'Don't Glue to the Spine!'

So my question is, if I were to make a hard cover for this little book, what are some ideas to attaching this little guy in there? I'm open to the idea of cutting the spine paper off and re-gluing it if that's one way to do it.. but would like to save the front and back cover of the book if possible and incorporate it into the final project. I've seen the Daydreaming on Paper site, and was going to use her method to make the cover, I just wasn't sure how to keep the book in tact while doing this without using needles/thread for the binding process.

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Also, was going through some of the posts in the memories and where there were previously pictures, there are no longer, which kind of kills the usefulness of the post if it's a walk-through of how to do something. Does someone sort through these or what?

Thanks in advance!

Current Mood: curious

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I was looking through the FAQ and memories, but didn't find what I was looking for, so I googled. Since what I found had great illustrations and easy-to-understand instructions, I thought I'd copy them to the community for the memories.

( Clicky )

all info under the cut was taken from here:
http://www.craftown.com/instruction/embroidery.htm

Hope it comes in handy.

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Sewing projects from a while back:

(x-posted)
Before:

AND

( After )

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Here's a sketch of my Halloween costume: a phoenix! I pretty much know how I am going to construct everything, but I do have some room to improve on the wing construction. I don't plan on having very big wings, maybe 2 feet high or so. I thought making the fire part out of acetate in red, orange, and yellow might be easiest. But my husband, who knows better than I, worries that acetate won't be able to hold itself up under its own weight. So as it stands, I'm going to construct a wire frame around the edge and somehow attach the acetate. I am considering florist's wire. As far as how it's going to be attached, I'm not sure. Tape seems more sturdy than glue, but possibly messy looking on the transparent acetate.

Would it be better to construct some sort of elastic harness to wear them? Or sew them directly onto the dress?

Any thoughts? Thanks!