Skully Smile embroidered fleece scarf

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My daughter got invited to an 11yo boy's birthday party this past weekend... and didn't tell me about it until Thursday night at bedtime.  So with no time to do considered shopping (as opposed to just buying Scrabble or Jenga and hoping for the best), I figured it's hard to go wrong with a fleece scarf and a smiley face in Canada's February chill.  The scarf was very quick to make: just the width of the black fleece, the width of the yellow fleece, stitch them right sides together to make a long tube, clip the fringe, turn, topstitch, and done.  Except I have an embroidery machine, and I am always looking for an excuse to play with it.  I downloaded (not free) the Skully Smile from Urban Threads. I seriously doubt I will ever post anything in a crafting-type forum again without referring to Urban Threads.  If I'd had time to hit the fabric store, I'd have bought a little more of the yellow fleece so I could make a matching hat. I think the scarf is wowful enough, though.

Cross-posted to my journal, handmade_gifts , sew_hip 

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Plain plastic doll

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Plastic of the bottle of detergent for dishes, yarn, crosheting, buttons.
The dress is removable.

damn lavender essential oil,

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be careful ... you'll get soap on a stick in no time! this stuff got really thick!

you can see the purple peeking out, it'll have a large purple layer/blob when i un-mold it. argh!

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prints

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Some hand printed fabrics i made last week.



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Embroidery help please!

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Hi there creative people! I really need yor help:)
I just started embroidery, the above was done by me, freehand with an air erasable pen.
I also have a tranfer pencil that I tried to tranfer a pattern from a book but the pencil left a barely there faint mark on the fabric, so faint that I couldn't follow it and it was on white linen so you would think it would show easily but it didn't and I followed all the instructions to a t!

I want to ask you, what's the best way you transfer your embroidery, patterns from books etc onto fabric? do you use carbon paper/pens/pencils?? Also what's the best way, if any to transfer patterns to felt?Thanks in advance!

I'd be so grateful of any help, thank you in advance!

Wigs

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Help Craftgrrls!

this may not seem the best subject, but it has been a pain in the neck...

How do you make a damn wig stay on your head the entire night? It appears to be almost impossible to me. I have very smooth and thin hair, and I am on the brink of duck taping the entire thing around my head!!
Any good advice is welcome...

Thank you, and greetings from Europe, Portugal.**

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some interesting links...


http://www.urbanthreads.com/pages?id=266

http://craftstylish.com/item/9660/how-to-make-an-impression-extraordinary-thank-you-notes

http://tinydecorblog.com/blog/2009/01/30/tutorial-decorative-switch-plates


enjoy!

Robot Love Valentines Day Heart Pendant

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This robot charm is adorable!

I love Robots and got some really cool robot rubber stamps and started stamping a wood heart. I then drilled a hole for hanging, painted the robot and background with metallic acrylic paints and sealed it with three coats of glossy finish on each side to make it really sparkle and shine. Both sides of this pendant feature different robots (pictures show both sides) :)

The heart measures two inches long (not including the loops for hanging) and is 1 3/4 inches wide.

Side 1


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Polymer Clay

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Mario Mushroom Earrings!

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Alternative to spray adhesive - Machine Embroidery post

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One of the reasons I started a sewing business in my home was because I had chemical sensitivities - to fragrances and solvents.  That effectively put me out of the manufacturing, office, and you-want-fries-with-that workforce.  It seems everyone wants to make their mark with scent.  Outdoor work in Canada is mostly seasonal.

As a result, I've had to get a little creative when I work around the "spray it with adhesive" step.  Mostly it involves pinning the object to the stabilizer: no problem, just pin outside the stitching area.

I found myself challenged when I tried to make the Yarrrrn badges, though: the fabric patch covers the stitching area.  It took some creative oopsing and a few test stitch-outs of Step 2 (the zig-zag outline) and the mailing of my farmers' market vendor application to get it to work: lick a stamp.

Cross-posted to the usual suspects
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