Creative Life Week 19 - Fabric yoyos and lots of fabric yoyos

This week I did a clean-up of a spare room I use for Dress A Girl Australia. Over time while sewing dresses I was able to collect again a bag of fabric scraps and I really do not like the idea of throwing them away. I know I will be able to think of something to make and use them in the future. So for this week I decided to cut the fabric scraps into circles and create fabric yoyos. And unbelievably I ended up making about 200 pieces of fabric yoyos.

While typing this article I still cant think of what to do with them. I might make a centerpiece out of some or a vase of fabric yoyo flowers quilt or a corsage. Am thinking of selling some of them too.

Am sure this will not be the end of my fabric yoyo making as I still have lots of fabric scraps left not only from making dresses but also from previous projects I had been making using fabrics.

Creative Life Week 17 - D-I-Y Paperweight

It has been 3 weeks since I last posted.  I couldnt find the time to take pictures of what I have created and blog about it but I have been consistently creating a project to continue my 52 weeks journey on creativity. So am going to backdate my posting so each project still represents the correct week the creation was made. 

For Week 17, I did a paperweight. A round paperweight of handcrafted glass.

I printed my image on a high quality paper. The round paperweight's dimensions are about 65mm and 20mm deep. And the base is made of black velvet.

If you want to create your own paperweight, D-I-Y paperweight kits will be made available in my online store soon.

[Traveler's Journal] - Defining Images of the Day - 04/2012 - Sydney NSW - "Pots of Gold" in Sydney

Another activity I want to accomplish this year 2012 is photography. Any scenery or object I can capture with my camera on any given day , something that catches my eye. This week was wet but was a good opportunity for "pots of gold". On my way to work from my station's parking lot

on my way to the train station -

and upon arriving at work when I looked out my window -

Such interesting pictures on this particular day with at least three different types of transportation as backgrounds. Was my lucky day.

i-create - Angel in your pocket Buttons

Been quite busy I am a bit late in blogging and showing what I did for the week after working on the 21-pocket quilt for my niece. It is now week 10 of my creative life and looks like I still am filled with ideas to make. Let me see if I can sustain my brain to keep on coming up with something to make every week especially that this month is craft month. For this week I decided to make buttons for the children of Roma Qld. A lady member of the facebook group The Sewing Library posted a message on the group's page about children of Roma who with their family lost their homes and everything in them in a flood that inundated Queensland several months ago and she thought it would be a great idea to get some members of the group to make some handmade things for the kids. 

Am not so sure how the kids would react to what I was going to make but the moment I saw the message posted I was determined to make buttons and I was going to adhere ribbons to the buttons so they can wear it if they want to. I started to find the right image to use for the buttons and I came up with the image of an angel inside a pocket and a message which read 'an angel in your pocket they say...will keep your troubles far away...'. I used a 57mm size button which I have plenty in stock.

Here is the button I created with a ribbon and to finish off the handmade item I placed them in organza bags which I bought from a 2-dollar shop near where I live. 

I hope the children of Roma will like what I made for them.

If you want buttons to be made with your own designs, please click here for enquiries. Buttons can be made in different sizes (25mm, 32mm, 57mm and 77mm) and can be made into the regular buttons, magnetic buttons, keychains or mirror buttons. Mirror buttons only come in 57mm size. 

i-create Week 9 - Completed Quilt

I finally completed my 21 pocket quilted wallhanging with the 21 messages inside the pockets from family and friends. I had to finish it as it had to be given to the celebrant last night. I typed each message on a white cardstock. Each message has to fit in a slightly smaller size than the pocket (6cms x 8cms) then cut each of them to create tags and finished the tags with ribbons. On each pocket I randomly distributed the numbers 1 to 21.

Here is the final 21 pocket quilted wallhanging.

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i-create Week 9 - Pocket Quilt

This last week I was busy finishing a pocket quilt for my niece who is celebrating her 21st birthday this weekend. The idea of the pockets in the quilt, all 21 of them is to gather 21 things about her from friends and family. Each pocket will hold a description of her or anything you can say about her. 

It was quite tricky to put them together as 21 is not really an even number. Whichever way or direction I go for the 21 pockets I always ended up with one extra until finally I decided to put the 3 pockets below her printed images.

The images at the center of the quilt is printed on a 13" x 19" 100% cotton poplin inkjet fabric sheet. The block measures 30.5cms x 41.5cms. The 21 pockets measures 6.5cms x 8.5cms. The whole quilt measures 56cms x 65cms.

I now have 5 nights to go to finish the quilt and print the 21 messages I need to put inside the pockets. When this is done, I will take another picture and post it on this site.

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