This lace bib is made with cotton scalloped lace cut into small pieces, and painted with gold glitter glue.
After I cut out 6 of the scallops, I painted each one, and then painted each one with clear nail polish to stiffen them..lol...hey, it worked!
I wish the photo had come out better, it's a nice gold color. Each scallop is connected with gold jump rings, then added to a gold chain.
This one was made after I saw Disney's version of a Banana Republic necklace at Ruffles and Lace. I used the gold glitter glue paint on this one,too. I'm in the middle of sewing it to a gold chain right now :D
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Are we trying to refashion our old wardrobe into something new?? Well, I saw lots of capelets, and made 2 different ones. A striped one from my niece's outgrown sweater to give my granddaughter. I'm making leg warmers from the sleeves...but they're not done yet!
Here's the sweater before. I cut off the waistband, and cut the sweater off right under the sleeves.
And here it is as a fashionable capelet! I used matching turquoise thread, and stretched the cut ends as I zig-zag stitched the hem to make the lettuce curl edging. I gathered it off center and made a flower from a turquoise strip of the leftover sweater, and covered a button with the gray part for the flower's center, and sewed it down in the middle of the gather.
This one is made from a lady's sweater, and I forgot to take a before photo! But it was a turtleneck. I cut off the neck, and the waistband, and cut it right under the arms, and used the zig-zag stitch while stretching the edges to get that curly look. I gathered off center again, and tacked on a burned fabric flower.
With some of the sweater left over, I remembered the cute little cap tutorial Disney made as a guest at 30 Handmade Days here. I cut the largest circle I could get from the leftover, and used the turtleneck of the sweater as the cap's headband. To finish, I tacked on a burned flower; so pretty! This cap will be given to my great-niece, along with leg warmers I'm making out of the sweater sleeves.
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My daughter took me to a thrift store, and I found some nice inexpensive pieces of fabric, each 2 yards or so.
Isn't that nice?
I already have a skirt planned for my granddaughter using my niece's outgrown shorts and the patchwork plaid fabric. Still trying to decide what style to make.
I got this tin pitcher for .59 cents, with plans to monogram it, but I don't know what colors yet. And the 2 glass bottles with stoppers were .39 cents.
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Rose sleeping on my pillow.
Cosmo snuggled up against me on my pillow. He looks way too comfortable tucked under that quilt...
CoCo II......also laying on my pillow. Ah,well, I have a washer and dryer..........
Doesn't CoCo look like she has Little Orphan Annie eyes when she has them shut? Very freaky looking sometimes :D
have fun!
kudzu
