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I saw this adorable on Anthro’s website and thought it would be a great fast project. I’ve had this bag of feathers that have been sitting in my craft bin for ever. It’s the perfect use of left over supplies. I wish I would have had spotted feathers like in the original, but I like the mixture I used.

You’ll need:

-Elastic, enough for around your waist (I used 1″ wide)

-Scrap fabric

-Feathers

-Closure (hook and eye)

1. Cut 4 strips of fabric 4.5″ by 2″

2. Sew together pieces, with a 90 degree point at the end. Trim excess and turn inside out.

3. Now you’ll tuck the ends of the elastic into the open ends of the fabric tabs. You’ll want to pin each tab in place. Check the sizing. You want just the tips to touch.

4. Zigzag stitch the end closed. Top stitch around the tab. This just keeps the tab flat.

5. Sew on the closures. It’s better to do it at this stage, before you put the feathers.

6. Now all you have to do is glue on the feathers! I used ivory, brown, rust, and black feathers. I finished it off with a jade bead shaped like a bear.

Since Vlad is at work, I took the photos on my dress form.

I’ll be the first to admit I’m a Pinterest addict. I saw this button belt and fell in love with it. The only bad thing? I forgot to pin it! So I have no idea where it came from. So if you know, tell me so I can give credit where it’s due.

Moving on…

This belt is super easy (and comfy!)

What you’ll need

-Length of 2” elastic slightly longer than your waist

-3 Hook & eye closures

-Tons of buttons!

1. Measure the length around your waist. Add ½”. Cut your elastic to that length. I like to lightly singe the edges with a match so it won’t fray

2. Fold back the ends ½” on each side. Stitch

3. Sew your three closures on the back side of the fold so that when closed, there is no gap

4. Start adding buttons! Don’t do too many with the same string. You want your belt to be able to stretch still. And that’s it. Seriously easy. I didn’t go all the way around the belt because I don’t have the attention span for it.

AKA How to make a hat with a bill

For a long time now people have been asking me to do a tutorial on how to do a hat with a bill (because of this post). So finally I got around to it. Sorry it took almost a year. This tutorial is basically the 45 minute hat, plus bill

So I’ve already cut the elbow patches and leg warmers out of my sweater (shown in white). So I had to cut around the missing sections.

1. Take a ball cap and trace the bill. This is your insert pattern.

2. Now add 0.5″ all the way around your insert pattern. You’ve now made yourself  a bill pattern.

3. Here’s my big secret. Transparency paper. You know, like you used in school for the over head projector? It makes a great bil insert. I don’t like using cardboard like some people do because it gets gross when wet. This stuff is fine. I haven’t tried to wash/dry it. But otherwise it works great. So take a sheet of transparency paper and cut a bill insert out

4. Using your bill pattern, cut 2 out of your sweater

5. Sew bill pieces together with 0.5″ seam

6. Snip around curved sections

7. Turn right side out, press

8. Insert the bill insert. pin. Top stitch 3 lines equal distance apart. I used 1/2 a presser foot width as my measurement

9. Measure around your head. This is your headband length

10. For the headband portion, I did not have enough of my sweater left to do both the inside and outside. Also, it was too short to do 1 piece, so I had to pieces together the band. To do this, I cut 2″ strips out of my sweater down the side. I sewed these together. Then cut to the length from step 9. Cut an equal strip out of scrap fabric. It’s going to be on the inside so it doesn’t matter that much

11. Sew your headband strips, both inside and out, together to make 2 loops.

12. Find the center of your outer headband. Pin to the center of you bill. Working out from this point, pin your bill to the outer headband. Repeat with inner.

13. Now sew together inner and outer headband all the way around, including bill section.

14. Cut out circle from back side of sweater. I cut mine at 8.5″ to get a good amount of fullness.

15. Pin edge of circle to raw edge of outer headband, pleating as you go. Sew

16. Finish raw edge of inner headband as you like, I surged it.

17. Turn inner headband up so it covers seam from 15.

18. On outside of hat, on the upper hat portion, stitch as close to the seam from step 15 as you can. This will hid all the unfinished edges on the inside of your hat.

Then you’re done. You have an adorable hat will a bill!

Last week we did elbow patches, this week is leg warmers!

I opted for a multifunctional leg warmer. I know it sounds tricky, but it’s not. I used some scrap fabric so one side of the leg warmer has three tiers while the other only has one. This gives me plenty of options.

1. Cut the sleeves off your sweater. Cut the bottom ribbed part off, about 3″ total

2. Cut the raw edge (near shoulder) off so it’s straight across. Measure the circumference of the opening. This is your width.

3. With your second and third fabric (must be stretch of some sort) cut rectangles 8″ and 14″ tall and match the width measured in step 2 plus 1 ” (seam allowance).

4. Finish the upper edge of the 2 spare fabrics (roll or surge). Sew your waist band strip and two extra fabrics into tubes, like above

5. This next step was tricky to diagram, so bare with me. Now you are going to place your tubes inside each other from tallest to shortest. So it’ll go gray, dotted then green. Line up the bottom edge. Pin together

6. Now place the sleeve section from step 2 inside all of those. Pin

7. Using elastic thread in your bobbin, stitch along the bottom edge.

And that’s it! So now you can wear these bad boys multiple ways. You can tuck the upper black portion in so you only see the patterned fabric and the green. Or flip the whole thing over so you only see the green!

Here it is with all three showing. Sorry the picture is fuzzy and has a brown hue. My camera has been acting up

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