Some Catch Up

I've been super busy as of lately and been doing quite a bit of traveling so I've had very little time to post on some of the things I've made lately. So to do a little catch up here's a few photos of some of the things I've been doing.

 This one is a head band I made for my niece. She's going to be a cat for Halloween and as you can tell she's still a newborn. So for this I just used a black Infant stretch head band and then I used felt to make ears and a bow and I simply hot glued them to the headband. The only thing with making it this way is you have to be careful to only stretch the headband from the back and not to pull wear the ears are connected. Gluing them there cause the elastic in that area to no longer stretch so if you were to pull to hard the ears could come off. But for dressing up for an evening these will more than do the job and they are quite cute if I say so myself.

 This one is my Halloween wreath. I am a Halloween enthusiast! It's my absolute favorite holiday and fall is my favorite season so I go all out decorating this time of year. This wreath was super simple. Most of the supplies I already had laying around so this cost me only $1 to go buy the wreath but I will list where I got everything anyway. Alright so I got the wreath at Target in the little bargain area they usually have by their entrance but they also sell these kinds of wreaths at the Dollar Tree as well. The ribbon I already had but I bought them at Walmart for about $2 each, and then the Felt is from Walmart as well. Felt is only 23 cents a sheet and you can make about 4 roses per sheet so its very cheap. I used black, orange, and green for leaves. I simply made my felt roses which I have a tutorial posted for on here already and then I wrapped my wreath with ribbon very snug so it wont slip. Next I glued my roses in place where I wanted them to lay. Then I made a bow and tied it through a piece of the wicker and then I took another piece of ribbon and tied it through another piece of the wicker on the backside of the wreath to make sure it would lay flat again the door. Overall this was a very easy project and made a super cute wreath for the holidays that I plan to re-use for quite a while. This would also make for a cute gift.

Last but not least I made my daughter a cute little skirt. This one is a bit harder to explain, but unfortunately I do not have a video recorder to be able to post videos of tutorials, and I didn't have the time or extra hands to photograph this one.

1.  I cut two identical rectangle strips that would be long enough in length for my 2 yr old and I sewed a seam at the bottom edges.
2. Then I folded over about 2 inches on the top sides of the pieces. I then sewed two seams about 1/2 inch apart so there would be a casing between the two. 
3. I sewed the lace onto the bottom. I simply just cut my lace the same length as the material and then ran a seam about a 1/4 of an inch up along the bottom edge.
4. I cut 2 elastic strips each about 3/4 of the length of the rectangles. I then put a safety pin in the end of the elastic to make it easier to feed it through the casing. Make sure to hold onto the elastic so it doesn't disappear into the skirt. Once you have one piece fed through one side you want to sew the elastic in place and then continue the same process with your other piece of fabric.
5. You place both of your complete pieces right side in and pin them together along the side seams. You want to sew these pieces together at an angle to get that flaired look. Simply just taper out from the top and you will get this effect. Once you have both sides sewn you can cut the excess material off to clean it up and then you're done.
6. Flip the skirt back to right side out and the skirt is complete.