Cute animal foodprint keychain, crochet patterns

 
Cute animal foodprint keychain, crochet patterns

Crafs for kids: felt stocking, sewing patterns

Crafs for kids: felt stocking, sewing patterns

  pussy in boots

Making money pig box for kids

Making money pig box for kids
Making toys with foam

      
It is easy to do

Craft ideas: Funny soft dolls for kids

making funny dolls. You can not tinker with sew legs and arms and use the clothesline.

Craft ideas: Funny soft dolls for kids

Christmas craft ideas: beaded miniatures

Christmas craft ideas: beaded miniatures

Christmas craft ideas: Paper bells and star

Christmas craft ideas: Paper bells and star
used a thick colored paper

Easy coconut rose bouquet tutorial

Easy coconut rose bouquet video tutorial

rose palm
Palm roses are one type of craft made out of palm leaves for Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is a Christian holiday that falls on the Sunday before Easter, marking Jesus's arrival in Jerusalem. Followers laid palms on the ground in front of him, which is why palm plays a central role in the holiday and its decorations.
You need 2 tapered leaves of equal length connected at the bottom. The rose will have a center only if the palm leaf is tapered and becomes smaller as you fold. The width of the palm can be up to 1/2" at the base.
Step 1: Beginning at about 2" from the base, fold one leaf back, slanting 45° to the left
Step 2: Fold the other leaf back, again at a 45° angle under it
Step 3: Fold the first under again continuing in in a counter-clockwise motion, bringing the "rose" as it is now appearing, over the front of the stem
Step 4: Since the palm is tapered, the rose begins to become smaller as you continue. When you feel you have a nice rose, secure the center with a pin or inserting the ends into the weave. You can either trim the ends, or let ends spin off. The center of the rose can be decorated with sequins, a tiny ribbon, or just a knot. It does not need to be decorated if done well. Roses look nice alone or in a bouquet of roses. A palm rose bouquet is welcome as a gift to the person who has everything money can buy! If hung on the wall, the roses can open and hang down, forming a nice spiral. Some leave the folds tufted, not pulled tight, for a rounded effect.
Step 5: to make a bouquet, you make about 20 roses and make a bouquet.

Coconut Rose

Palm Rose

Roses made of palm.

The hands of the rosemaker

Photo: http://flickr.com

Weaving Paper Bird Tutorial

Paper Bird Tutorial.

First things first, disclaimer time… the artwork I created with this weaving style is entirely my own, however, the concept of the woven bird is quite old.  In researching the web I found only a few step-by-step instructions for this style of woven birds.  My hope is to provide a tutorial that may be of more help for you.  Once you get the knack for these, they are really not too difficult.

Making a Woven Bird

This is the template that I used for this demo bird.  It is a 1″ wide strip, the wing is 1½” before the lengthwise cuts are made to form the weaving strips.

The first fold

Fold the first strip down on a 45° angle, crease, and weave under the second strip, over the third, and then under the fourth.

Completed right-hand wing

Fold the second strip down and crease same as the first, weave under and then over the remaining two strips.

Left-hand wing folded upside down

The left hand wing is folded same as the right, only upside down.

Line up back of bird

Flip left hand wing over, and line up the folded edges of the wings.  Hint:  If you tape your work to a movable mat, you can rotate it to make the weaving easier.

Back of bird woven

Fold the back of the bird, following the pattern already established by weaving the wings.  The back will look like a woven diamond with four strips facing up, and four strips facing down.

Underside of bird, ready to weave body

Flip work over so that under side of bird is up, tape to work area with drafting tape.  The belly of the bird is woven in a diamond pattern as well.  Weave the outer strips counter-clockwise, starting with A.

Bend the strips over, do not crease!!

Strips A and then B are bent down and secured temporarily with tape.  Do not crease these strips, you will need them to form the 3-D body.

Weaving the body

Strip C is bent up and then strip D is bent up and woven under A.  The remaining four strips are bent over and woven in following the pattern already established.

Almost finished

This photo shows the bottom of the bird woven, it will be messy until the last steps.  The remaining strips that point upward will become the head of the bird.  The strips pointing downward will become the tail.  Each pair are pulled through the small openings at the top and bottom.  Weave the odd-numbered strips through first, then follow with the even-numbered strips.  Note:  For the nicest looking bird, I like to weave strips #1 and #5  in a slightly different way.

This strip gets a special weave

Strip #1 is woven under BOTH strips on this side of the bird.  Strip #2 is then woven over the top of #1 and through the end strip only.  Same goes for strips #5 & #6.

forming the tail and head

The remaining strips are woven under the last strip only.

A nice tight belly

Pull each strip individually to tighten up the body of the bird.  This takes some fiddling to straighten up the weaving and to tighten up the end loops so that it will secure.  This photo shows what the underside of the bird will look like.

It's all held together with one knot

Read more: http://fabewelous.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/paper-bird-tutorial/