It´s World Cup season and to celebrate this exciting moment I made this green + yellow + blue ( Brazilian flag ) to decorate our living room and for those who want to make one of this, take a look at this tutorial , it´s written in Portuguese but it´s quite easy because there are great photos to follow. Try it, enjoy it!!!
Before hanging it inside our house I took this picture outside, much better with the natural light!
As you already know, I am a button collector and these days I ´ve been thinking how to keep my favorite ones in a special place ... So I created this It´s Raining Buttons Cloud so I can hang it on my studio´s window and the sunlight shines on the colorful buttons that makes me smile and brings good feelings.
Material:
Sew them on one piece of felt displaying two together or only one, it´s up to you to create here, this part, like others made me so happy!
In my project I put 3 strings of button drops falling from the cloud and I wanted two to be longer than the middle one that is shorter.
Using the needle pass the floss once through the button hole but if you desire, you may turn back and do it twice . Do it for all the buttons.
It will look like this.
This is how it will look with the 3 strings hanging on together.
It´s time to sew the hanging floss on the top of the two parts sewn together as shown above.
Is it well fixed? good!
I confess, I need some " Embroidery for Dummies" book for I can´t stitch anything but the running stitch , I gotta improve my skills...
Fill the cloud the way you like, I prefer very soft so I didn´t fill too much.
Here it is! This is my version for Candy Colors Drop, very colorful and fun!
This one is the Ocean Cloud, it´s very simple, monotone, only blue buttons that bring refreshing breeze...
This cute bag with the puppy design was inspired here and here. She can carry her precious books , pencase and her favorite stuffed elephant seal in it.
Playing outside, feeling the fresh breeze on our face and walking barefoot feeling the grass, the cold stone floor under our feet , picking fruits from the trees, that´s what we´ve done yesterday and there´s nothing sweeter than these moments, oh, yes, there is. The fruits ( jaboticabas) are very sweet.
It´s really a hot day and I couldn´t almost sleep at night and staying at home today was too much so we decided having lunch out , Itu was the destination.
We got home, Camila was out with her uncle and aunt , I felt kind of doing something with my fabrics, had some ideas in my mind , sketched some projects and I came out to this Notebook Hanging Pocket.
I am definitely terrible with drawings, see the squares???? Well, I just had to have some idea of the project so it worked out!
I love this fabric design and its pretty colors! I used it as the pocket fabric, then added some cotton lace and finished with this vintage navy blue button.
This is exactly what I needed, sometimes I don´t have the pen and paper to write down some quick notes found on the internet then this pretty accessible pocket is quite perfect, don´t you think?
The weight of the notebook holds firmly the hanging pocket and here you see an African pencil from Gana and a very pretty sketch book that my friend , potter and artist gave to me. Thank you Sossô!!!
And maybe this one will work out for kids , too... in their case: a lollipop , a favorite stuffed toy made by mom and some candies...
These past few days I´ve been reading and sewing and reading on and on ... The quilt I´ve been sewing is ready now ( and I intend to post a photograph later on) and this book: Family Meals - Creating traditions in the kitchen by Maria Helm Siskey ( mine, I bought online at Amazon.com) is a great book for everyone who loves cooking with all the family and friends, to be in the kitchen together to make something delicious, simple and easy...
Here you see the quilt in progress, for Camila´s new bed! And the page of the salad I´ve made for my lunch on Friday.
This is the result, I had to make some changes in the recipe because I didn´t have them all but still, it was fresh, colorful and tasteful! And there´s more in this delicious book, the photographs are awesome and my daughter enjoys looking at them and asks me about the recipe of each page because it´s really entertaining and interesting.
This is Camila´s new PJ´s bag that she can hang on her door or near her bed. It always holds a set of PJ , sleeping socks and her little bunny Branquinha that she loves so much!
I came to this bag idea when I bought Sewing in no time written by Emma Hardy , full of fabulous ideas and colorful photos that I immediately had to make it!
It was fun to make it in one afternoon! I guess it took me more time for choosing the fabrics and its colours than sewing itself .
What can I call a daily perfection?
Sometimes I just feel like making something really quick and easy... and cute! This pattern was made inspired on this book: See and Sew by Tina Davis which is the most incredible and beautiful sewing book for children ( and adults as well!) . It´s a vibrant introduction to sewing plus , it doesn´t require a sewing machine or advanced skills, isn´t it great?
