Category: Headbands

Mixing Racing and Tutus {A Disney Cars Halloween Costume}

10/16/2013

I bet I have made over 20 Halloween costumes in my 30 years of life! My earliest costume construction memory is of my mom and I working sewing a Gypsy outfit when I was about 7. Then, there were all the costumes that Ang and I created throughout high school and college... can can girls, bugs, boxers, etc.! So this year is super sad because my husband and I do not have plans for Halloween yet and I haven't made a costume for myself!! Usually I have settled on an idea by August...and here it is October already!!

Luckily, I was commissioned to make a Halloween costume for Teacher Bud Beth's little peanut. She haphazardly agreed with her toddler when the 2 year old requested to be Lightning McQueen for Halloween, hoping she would forget. We all know how that turned out.... so my mission became to create a little girls Cars costume. Mom informed me that she has a shirt, but perhaps I could make a girly tutu to match?

Here is what I came up with:

To make the tutu I followed this blog post on Heart Break Kids.
The ribbon is from Jo-Ann Fabrics.
The hair bow is made from an alligator clip, the checked ribbon, left over tulle & a lightning bolt cut from black and yellow felt.

Now what to make for myself?! Here are some of my ideas:

Max from Where the Wild Things Are:

http://classicnoise.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-halloween.html

A mail order bride: (Don't normally like cheesy costumes...but it would be SO Project Runway to make a dress from envelopes?!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/women-halloween-costumes_n_1019790.html#s412449&title=MailOrder_Bride

A paper doll: Also fun to create.

http://linconnuedeindochine.blogspot.com/2011/10/10-down-dead-8-letters.html

Comic Book Character:

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/best-comic-book-halloween-costume.html

Frida Kahlo:

http://www.glamjam.co/lang/en/2012/12/appearances-can-be-deceptive-clothes-by-frida-kahlo-exhibition/

Anyone else still get excited about costume making?! What should I be??? Comments/suggestions welcome!

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Forget knitting... easy-fleecy ear warmer

1/3/2012

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Now, I don't really mean FORGET knitting... let me explain my love/hate relationship with the knitting craft genre. The hate comes from the fact that I am such a slow knitter that it drives me crazy. I can sew so much faster than I can knit, and if you know me you know that I am a "results girl" (to quote my BFF from college and it was not referring to crafting, ha) and I am all about getting the project done and checked off the list asap. HOWEVER, I love knitting because it is something I can take with me anywhere. Crafting on the go is really really wonderful, on a long car ride, watching an the 5th extremely entertaining school Christmas program rehearsal, anytime, anywhere knitting can satisfy my crafting cravings!

With that said, for this project I was feeling like the results girl and sewed a fleece headband instead of knitting one. Check it out!
1. Measure your head and add a 2/2.5 of inches for the overlap with the button in the back & the seam. I cut the edges a little thinner than the front. Also cut a few squares to make a flower.

2. I folded over the edges and stitched along all 4 sides, but with fleece it doesn't really fray so you may not even need to do this part! In fact, this whole project could be done by hand sewing if you skip this step! :)

3. Cut the small squares into flower shapes.

4. Pick a side and slightly off center for your flower. Fold one flower in half two times and hand sew threw the point a few times. Can you stand Tator Tot helping me?! Still in the curious puppy stage!! :)

5. Continue sewing the other flowers next to the first one. I kind of went in a circle. The fleece is nice and stiff and make a fun "poofy" flower! Love it!

Thanks again to my wrinkly drooly model for this shot:

6. To finish I sewed a button on one end and cut a slip for a button hole on the other end. Again, since the fleece doesn't really ravel a simple slit for a button hole works just fine! Two nieces' Christmas gifts in one night... results girl to the rescue!!!

**No animals were hurt in the making of this tutorial, just a little embarrassed ;-)

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Soft Baby Headband

11/15/2010

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Here is a baby headband I made out of old t-shirt scraps...nice and soft for baby :)

1. Cut a strip for the headband (about 2" by the circumference of your head). Sew together in a circle
2. Cut out small (about 1" circumference) circles for the flowers.
3. Fold circles into fourths (makes like a triangle shape)
4. Tack folded circles to headband. A few small stitches in the point of the "triangle". Place them close together, going every which way :)

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Foldy Flower Headband--first post!

11/10/2010

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My very first post to my very first blog!! I have been wanting to do something productive now that my masters program is complete (and I guess planning a wedding isn't enough) ;-) So here is my attempt at organizing all of my "trial and error" crafting endeavors.... enjoy, advise welcome!

Here are some rough directions for this headband:
1. Cut and sew a piece of elastic the size of your dome. ( I used a thin cotton)
2. Take a long strip of fabric (about 2 inches by 25 inches) and sew a hem on each side of the long length of the fabric.
3. The next step is tricky... I just folded and twisted the fabric onto itself in random fashion until it resembled a flower. I was pinching the center the entire time. When finished I held it together with a clothespin.
4. Thread a needle and sew up and down through the center of the flower onto the piece of elastic until secure.
5. Press the flower with an iron.

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Mixing Racing and Tutus {A Disney Cars Halloween Costume}

Forget knitting... easy-fleecy ear warmer

Soft Baby Headband

Foldy Flower Headband--first post!

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