Let's Make PRETTY Eye-Patches - tutorial

[elfie-elfie.livejournal.com]

I can finally use up all those SCRAPS!

This is really, really easy, and I request right off the top that you yoink this, make these, sell these, and do whatever you can to make having to wear an eye-patch less depressing and more comfortable for people (including children) who MUST wear them.  I made these, and about a dozen others in different colours, for a neighbour of mine who survived the kind of stroke that kills or severely incapacitates just about everyone else.  One of her eyes is fixed and dilated, and as a result, she cannot switch on the lights in her house without covering the "dead" eye.  She asked me to make her some eye-patches that weren't black vinyl, but wouldn't press against her eyeball, or drown her in sweat in the summer, or basically make her look like a pirate or a crook.

( Lots of pics, none wider than 500 pixels )

cross-posted to quilting, sew_hip, and my journal.

Kaytlyn's stuff

[trenthamfamily.livejournal.com]

Kaytlyn whipped this up for me last night :)
I had to wear it to work. She used Stretch Magic but there is a clasp on the back she's going to take off since it can just be put right over your head.

Sorry the pictures are dark and small. I only have a camera phone and little light in our office right now.

She used black teardrop beads (but at different angels you see all colors in the beads, I can't remember what that is called though) for the necklace and earrings (fishhook findings) and silver spacers. I love it!

At this rate she's never going to get to sell anything because she's making it all for me and I wear everything she's made :)

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incendiary glance, confusion settling in

[unicornstories.livejournal.com]

I made more journals :)
I would also like to introduce you to Louise, Dina, and other doll whom i have not yet found a suitable name for.
Excuse their nakedness, i'm still considering various ways in which to clothe them.

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beaded jewelry

[missbadexample.livejournal.com]

I'm new here and thought I'd share some jewelry I made recently.

This is a bracelet made for my boyfriend's mother:



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I'm still not great at this, but I think I improve with every piece.

sterling silver ring.

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This is my first ever metalworking piece, so please feel free to leave comments with cc. :)
I found this pretty hard to photograph, but there are dimples all over the ring, and on the front the edges bow out.

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[solarin.livejournal.com]

Bored.

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what is going on with this batch of pellon wonder under it won't stick to the fabric at all.:((

[addicted2crafts.livejournal.com]

the directions say to place rough side of pellon w*onder under to the wrong side of fabric iron cut out then peel. WEll the damned webbing onliisn't sticking to the material. it peels alright but then it's this very useless gauzy piece of well gauze. I ordered this stuff on line so I can't take it back, and it's been several months since purchase. Is this entire bolt going to be worthless?I've tried everything from more heat to longer heating I even checked the material I used a scrap of cotton instead of the flannel and NOTHING. IT SIMPLY WILL NOT ahere to the material no matter what and I've been trying all night and I am not a patient person by nature and it took a huge amount of emotional energy to sit there and painstakingly cut out the shapes, cause ev en a few for testing was tedious. 

Please no snarky comments, as is the trend lately when I ask something that I just can't seem to get., It's rude and it's pretty mean, and it serves no purpose, and right now I am angry cause my bull crap tolerance is shot, and so is my patience with this project, and I will not be polite if people turn this question into another bitch fest for their petty vendetta's as people have done in the past..