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Guest blogger series | Fabric cupcake flag toppers

by contributor on October 15, 2011

in Guest blog series2 2011, Home+Decor, Whip Up Tutorials

Lisa and Sarah are the mother and daughter duo behind A Spoonful of Sugar. They aim to Live Creatively and share lots of crafty tutorials and recipes on their blog. They spend their time sewing, baking, and dabbling in a wide range of crafts. Lisa publishes her sewing designs in a number of sewing, craft, quilting magazines in both the USA and Australia.

Hello Whipup.net readers. We love to bake for our family and friends, and enjoy sharing our weekend baking recipes on our blog each week . Today we wanted to share with you our tutorial for making some fabric cupcake flags which are easily made from your fabric scraps.

Fabric Cupcake Flags

Transform your fabric scraps into sweet cupcake flags to add to add a fun home made touch to your next celebration or high tea.

Materials:

Fabric scraps
fusible appliqué webbing such as vliesofix or steam a seam
wooden toothpicks
buttons
ribbon

Method:

Cut the fabric and the fusible webbing into strips measuring 1 1/4 inches x 4 inches. (3 x 10cm)
Using your iron, adhere the fusible webbing to the wrong side of the fabric. Remove the paper backing on the fusible webbing.
Position the fabric strips with the wrong side facing up. Position a toothpick in the middle of the fabric strip. Fold the fabric strip in half, sandwiching the toothpick in the middle. Press with an iron to adhere both ends of the fabric together.
Trim the flag into the desired shape. Embellish flag with buttons or lace as desired.
Insert the flags into decorated cupcakes to add a whimsical home made touch.

Bon Appétit!

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Guest blogger series | Gadget pouch tutorial

by contributor on October 13, 2011

in Guest blog series2 2011, Sewing+Fabric, Whip Up Tutorials

Guest blogger: Cam from CurlyPops

Well, hello there dear Whipup.net readers, my name is Cam and I have a little crafty blog named CurlyPops. I’m super chuffed to be guest blogging here today.

My sister recently bought me an e-Reader, and so I desperately need to make a padded pouch so that I can throw it in my handbag without worrying about it getting scratched or damaged. I thought that whipping up a little crafty project for myself presented the perfect opportunity for sharing a tutorial so that you can also make your own.

I’m currently testing out some samples from my new fabric range, and so I’m using my granny square fabric as a feature in this project. Enjoy!

Download the 4 page PDF tutorial here.

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Guest blogger series | Clutch purse tutorial

by contributor on October 9, 2011

in Guest blog series2 2011, Jewellery+Accessories, Whip Up Tutorials

Jorth is written by Leisl, who lives in Melbourne and loves to knit, sew, cook, read and generally create whilst living a green life. You can visit her site at her blog Jorth.

Hi, my name is Leisl from Jorth, and I have created a super easy tutorial for a cute clutch purse. You can use it as a purse, as a make up bag, a travelling jewellery case – anything! They are quick to make, and make excellent gifts. Keep them in mind for Christmas and birthdays – or maybe just make up a whole bunch for yourself!

Things you will need:

One piece of fabric measuring 25 x 30cm (9 x 12 inches) (in this case a print from Ink and Spindle was used.
One piece of lining fabric measuring 25 x 30cm (9 x 12 inches)
One piece of medium weight iron-on fusing measuring 23 x 28cm (9 x 11 inches)
One metre/yard of ribbon
Threads, to match

Note: seam allowances are 1cm, unless otherwise specified.

Step 1: Cut out fabric according to dimensions, then fuse the iron-on fusing onto the wrong side of the lining fabric, leaving a 1cm (.4 inch) border around all edges. This border will be your seam allowance.

Step 2: Fold your outside fabric piece into in equal thirds at 9cm (3.5inches) from the top and 20cm (8inches) from the top. Press the fold lines.

Step 3: Place the centre of your ribbon into the centre of the middle outside fabric folded section. Stitch the ribbon to this section only, sewing as close to the ribbon edge as possible.

Step 4: Place the outside fabric and lining fabric together, right sides facing, carefully tucking in the ribbon so you don’t sew over it. Sew the side seams and top seam, clipping corners. Turn right side out, and press.

Step 5: Fold down the 1cm seam allowance of the bottom seam, so the seam allowance is hidden inside. Press, then sew the seam closed. Press.

Step 6: Fold the bottom section of the clutch so it meets the top fold. Starting from the bottom left hand corner, sew the sides of the clutch together, continuing along the top side and top edge of the clutch, then down along the right side, using a 0.7cm seam allowance.

Fold over the top flap of your clutch, tie your ribbon and voila! One finished clutch!

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Guest blogger series | Creative suitcase tutorial

by contributor on October 8, 2011

in Guest blog series2 2011, Sewing+Fabric, Whip Up Tutorials

Guest blogger: Nat from ByNight

Hi everyone! I’m Nat from the blog ByNight. I live in Belgium, a tiny, mini, little European country. I am a graphic designer during the day and a self-taught sewer at night and you have no idea how happy and honored I am to be here with you today as it is pretty much thanks to Whipup.net’s inspiring features, great tutorials or amazing guests that I learned how to sew a couple of years ago… It now seems totally natural that I, too, share a tutorial with you all.

A few weeks ago, my friend’s daughter had her 6th birthday and since every time I see her all she wants to do is draw, paint or make collages, I made her this creativity suitcase so she could carry her art supplies everywhere she goes. What I hadn’t expected is that many of my blog readers would kindly ask me how I did it as they wanted one for their kids or even themselves. I had no other choice to promise them to write a tutorial for it… whenever ;-) Kathreen’s invitation to be here today seemed like the perfect moment.

This Creative Suitcase fits an A4 (letter sized copy) paper block. It has many pockets for your markers and colored pencils. You can also slip in some scissors, a watercolor box, a smaller drawing book or some crayons. It also has a removable zippered pouch where you’ll want to put the supplies you just can’t live without…

Download the detailed 12 page tutorial and pattern as a pdf document here.
I hope this tutorial will help you all to feel artistic anywhere and any time…
Merci Kathreen, for having me over!

[Head on over to Nat's blog ByNight where she has a French version of this tutorial.]

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Guest blogger series | Pin pouffe tutorial

by contributor on October 4, 2011

in Guest blog series2 2011, Sewing+Fabric, Whip Up Tutorials

Sandra is a textile artist and designer and the head behind the playful and imaginative world of herzensart. She also writes a blog where she shares her working process and inspirations.

This is a quick and easy sewing project I had much fun with and I hope you´ll like it too. I came up with the idea of making a pin pouffe when I held some samples of woven ribbons in my hands, that I had designed for a German weaving mill and wondered what to use it for. The straight standing British Guards just seemed perfect to wrap around something, as some kind of banderole so to say.

Of course you don´t need a Guardian ribbon for making a pin pouffe, you can choose any ribbon you have at your fingertips, or just leave the ribbon away and use fabric only. It´s all up to you.

This is what you´ll need:

- one fabric rectangle of 34cm x 9 cm (Cotton fabric works best)
- two fabric circles with a diameter of 10.5cm (4inch) each (looks nice if you choose different fabrics for the top and the bottom of the pouffe)
- sewing thread
- woven ribbon 34cm (14 inch) in length (optional)
- polyfill stuffing
- sewing machine
- pins
- a stick for stuffing (a wooden spoon or chopstick works well)

1. sew ribbon to right side of rectangle fabric piece.
2. fold down about 5-10 mm (1/4-1/2 inch) of the rectangles short sides to the wrong side and sew across.
3. pin rectangle piece around the edges of the bottom circle (right sides facing).
4. and pin it the same way around the top circle edges.

5. sew along the bottom and the top edges.
6. turn the pouffe right sides out.
7. now stuff your pouffe firmly with polyfill, a wooden spoon or chopstick is helpful.
8. you can close the opening of the pouffe with one stitch using a strong thread.

Voilà, you are done!

For some extra cuteness you can now decorate your pincushion with deco pins. For example I made little red busses out of FIMO, or just pronge tiny pompoms to pins.

Have fun creating! I´d love to see your pouffes :)

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