Make your gift even more special with DIY wrapping paper or paper bags embroidered with snowflakes and trees. It’s also a great last minute gift wrapping and to reuse brown packing paper. All you need is recycled brown paper, yarn and DIY wheatpaste. Continue reading DIY Embroidered Paper Bag – Last Minute Gift Wrapping
My fabric stash was full of old denim, so it was high time to use up some of the old ripped jeans! 😀 Continue reading DIY Distressed Denim Skirt
I’ve always wanted to try to make bobbin lace, but didn’t want to buy any tools before I knew if I’d like making pillow lace. Therefore I made my own bobbins and pillow. For the DIY bobbins I just cut a length of common reed. The lace pillow is polystyrene with fabric pinned on top.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how I mended an old ripped jeans in the crotch area. Continue reading How To Mend Your Jeans In The Crotch Area
Bermuda fagoting – also know as three-sided stitch and Point Turc – is a decorative embroidery stitch which was popular in the Edwardian era. It looks a bit like hemstitching or drawn-thread work. But it’s quicker to make and can also be stitched on curved lines. Continue reading Edwardian Bermuda Fagoting – Tutorial
Today I finished my 1920s style beaded dance purse. Continue reading 1920s Beaded Dance Bag
Edwardian ladies and 1920s flappers applied face powder with a powder puff. ‘Take up but a small quantity of powder on the puff, and pass lightly over the face.’ (Household Companion: Book Of Etiquette, 1909)
Related: Victorian & Edwardian Face Powder
The powder puff was part of fashionable dressing table sets. The dressing-table ‘must be supplied with all needful accessories–brushes and combs, perfumes, creams and lotions, powder-boxes, powder-puffs, manicure set, etc.’ (Household Companion: Book Of Etiquette, 1909)
Related: Edwardian Interior Design
A powder puff is a quick and easy sewing project even for a sewing beginner. You don’t even need a sewing machine! This vintage powder puff is inspired by antique powder puffs from the Edwardian era and the 1920s. Continue reading How To Sew A Vintage Powder Puff
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make this decorative tassel. Continue reading DIY Beautiful Tassel – Tutorial
In the final part of my 1950s embroidery and sewing series I’m showing you this pretty sampler of a hand-stitched braid. Continue reading Hand Stitched Braid – Vintage Embroidery And Sewing Techniques Part 13
In this part of my 1950s embroidery series, I have various samplers with soutache and ribbon trims for you; all sampler were made between 1950 and 1952. Continue reading 1950s Soutache And Ribbon Trim Ideas – Vintage Embroidery And Sewing Techniques Part 12