It was a good weekend!
I got to spend time on a DUO call with Maddy and Meri and we did some Christmas crafts! When we were planning this, I'd sent the wrong Youtube video to the girls and Meri found a book that she could destroy to create the stars. But by the time we actually got on the call, I had construction paper being cut into strips and had reviewed one of the videos that we'd done years ago when we'd done these last time.
The girls were convinced that I'd already spent an hour already making up a bunch because I acted like I knew what I was doing.
When in fact I didn't...
I did the first one COMPLETELY wrong.
Instead of a Christmas star, it came out as a Christmas blob. Still kind of pretty, but not what I was intending.
So since I'd already glued the yellow strips into the place, I quickly pulled that one apart and redid it the right way with the points pointing out rather than in.
That did the trick.
Later on Sunday I tried it again with a pretty gift bag.
While it DID need clothes pins to hold it together while it dried, it came out very nice!
I'm wanting to make several more of these to give to some shut in friends.
Here is the video if you want to try them for yourselves.
A neighbor is bringing over a tee shirt tonight of her dad's to make into a memory pillow. I hope I do it justice! Has anyone done that before? I'm thinking I'm going to need some fusible interface on the back of the t-shirt fabric to make sure it doesn't stretch all out of place. Suggestions?
Have a wonderful crafty week!
3 comments:
Yes a nice stiff fusible interface will do the trick!
I wish I had saved one of my dad's dress shirts and made a pillow with it. He wore suits to work everyday but loved blue pinstripe shirts. I would have loved to have a shirt made from that but saw it on Pinterest well after Mom got rid of his things.
Your stars look really pretty! My MIL made bears out of my father in laws shirts for their kids and grandkids.
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