A line Tunic patren tutorial

Its a pretty simple and easy draft specially great for the beginners.Thats what you will do.

First of all trace the out line of some sleeve less T-shirt of your kid that fits him the best add the desired length to it .





now add five 4 to 6 inches on each side at bottom then join this point with the lower end of arm hole look at the red line.


now rub off the straight lines and your super easy A-line tunic pattern in ready.

These are the two dresses that i made using the same pattren.

in this dress i just added some ruffles on the arm holes, neck line and on bottom .

Very soon you will get to see full step by step tutorials on both of these dresses until then !take care and happy crafting .


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Sumo's Sweet Stuff

treating a broken leg of birds

Last month on my birthday thats the gift i received from my hubby aren't they gorgeous ,what a beautiful gift .My husband knows that i just love pets so he got this pair of geese for me .

When hubby went to collect them from the owner one of the geese went through a horrible accident, in the attempt to catch them the female goose ran out of the house on the road and a car drove over her leg so she arrived with a broken leg to my home i was both happy and sad at the same time ,what i did was that i placed her leg between 2 ice cream sticks and fixed them around her leg with sticking tape ,gave her some antibiotics and amazingly with in a month she is all OK as you can see in the pictures

enjoying a romantic walk in our back yard

my way of making a makeup roll "Tutorial"

A few days ago i was thinking to make some thing for my elder sister who lives abroad and i end up making a makeup Roll for her ,you will find many tutorials in the blog land for making a make up brush roll but the rebellion inside me urged to try one out my own way and to add a bit of a personal touch to it so instead of a brush roll i decided to make a MAKE UP ROLL. Many of you might think that may be its not the right way but the funny thing is that it turned out just great ,hears the tutorial.




first of all you will be needing 4 peices of fabric ,2for the outer part and two for the lining the larger peices will make the body of the roll and the small peices will make the pockets for the makeup.You will also need half a yard of some coordinating colored ribbon.



join the little pieces together fold and give it a top stitch.



put this prepared piece on the large lining piece of fabric ,mark the pockets according to the sizes of ur makeup stuff and stitch on these markings . Fold all the four edges towards the wrong side.




place the prepared pockets on the main fabric ,also fold all the sides of the main fabric towards the wrong side too,look at the pictures above!



pin these all together fold the ribbon in half and insert it in the right side secure it with a pin and top stitch all around the four sides of your make up roll.



ready to use


A MISTAKE I MADE

well the holly month of Ramadan has started so i decided to be fully honest with u people :)
there is one mistake i made as you might have noticed that i inserted the ribbon in the middle of the right side which gave me a result like this


not good :( the ribbon tie has to be in the middle ,so i had to pick up the stitches of this side and removed the ribbon from this spot and inserted it where the pocket starts and stitched again .




and this time i am finally happy with it .
if you want to see the tutorial for the makeup brush roll which originally inspired me then go to "Skip To My Lou" and see her tutorial
enjoy your crafting time ......

You can't run away from death

Two days ago i had a very usual and busy day nothing special occurred except when i went out late night to open up the dog , i noticed some thing slightly white near my gate i went towards it and to my surprise it was a very pretty cute little pigeon i picked it up effortlessly which was a sign that he was not feeling well. I brought him inside the house gave him some water and bread crumbs which he ate very whole heartedly ,but i was totally confused that if he is sick then sick birds usually dont eat that eagerly but on the other hand he was really slow i showed him to my hubby he thought that may be he is really tired after struggling to scape a cat attack or so .... just let him rest ....


A thought did crossed my mind to keep him as a pet but my this love for pets is already converting my home into a mini sized zoo :) so i decided to just let him rest on our terrace which is totally out of the reach of cats and in the morning if he is feeling better he can fly away
the night was over and a brand new day started i opened up the terrace door .....AH! what a pleasant surprise the pigeon was not there which means that after rest he felt better and flew away ......... end of the story .


NO not really thats not the end of the story whole day long i had such a good feeling that i was able to help some one in need but then in the after noon when i went to our back yard to check our chickens and ducks my mouth was left open and i was totally speech less for a while that poor pigeon try to fly away and some how came down stairs and there Sasha our aggressive watch dog killed it ... all those good feelings replaced them selves with sadness and guilt that i shouldn't have placed him on the terrace ,but gradually as the time is passing i am realizing that no one can be blamed for this, i never wanted this to happen ,the pigeon was only trying to avail his freedom and Sasha the Villon in this story has an instinct to pray the only thing logical is that You Just Can't Run Away from death,it will come to you .


good bye little friend....

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Yoyo Ribbon flowers Tutorial

A very easy and quick project yet the results are beautiful.....

YOU WILL NEED

• Scrappy fabric circles
  
• coordinating colored ribbons
• needle and thread
  
• pony tail holders (if you want to use these flowers on pony tails)
• scissors
• buttons or beads for the center
  

HOW TO MAKE

slightly fold the edges of the fabric circle

now with the help of the needle and thread sew all around the edges using running stitch,




care fully pull the thread
and you will end up making a yoyo ,secure the thread and break it off .

singe the edges of the ribbon with the help of a candle flame and sew along one side again using running stitch and pull ......


until a round shaped flower is formed secure and break the thread.


Assemble the flower by adding the ribbon on top of the yoyo and putting a white bead or button in the center ,stitch them together with the help of needle and thread and you are done .

Use these little beauties on pony tail holders,


OR on a wrist band

or simply add a safety pin at the back and make a brooch out of it ..... if you make any then do show them to me :) ,have a great day

Be aware of the neck collar sores in pet dogs

About an year and a half ago when we bought Sasha, she was just four months old and with a lot of behavior problems .At pet shop she was really upset with a complete stranger(the shop keeper) so she tried her best to free her self and in this struggle she learned how to slide her head out of the neck collar so the pet shop owner had to tie the neck collar as tight as possible to get hold of her .The wise shop keeper who was very much willing to sell dogs never realized that he is in a desperate need of a cage to hold such big and power full animals,it also took me a while to learn how to control her but once she realized that i am the friend she is the most loving pet i have ever had (look at the sweet look on her face when i am patting her head ... trust me she does not look that sweet all the times :)........) .Sasha is my first ever dog! had no previous experience of dog keeping .The second day when we brought her home i realized that when we try to get hold of her by the chain that was attached to her collar she would become very rest less and would behave very strangely i had a feeling that may be her neck collar is hurting her so i opened it up ....Oh my GOD .....that was the most pain full sight i had ever seen,the poor thing was having a big soar on her skin under the collar ,the tight collar caused continues trauma to her skin and eventually became the reason for the injury, we had to remove the collar and kept her on our covered terrace , treated the injury with skin ointments ,gave her anti biotics in milk (thanks to my hubby who is a Doctor) and she was all well in 2 weeks .


Sasha is our watch dog and is quite aggressive too, with young kids around we have to be care full and have to tie her up from time to time but now we take care of the following 2 rules

• the collar should be loose enough to rotate in the neck of the dog .
• take the collar off every night so the skin have a chance to recover naturally .
  

Sasha is 1 and a half years old now and just by observing the above simple rules she never had a neck collar injury again . :)

The corn husk flowers tutorial

The texture and feel of the corn husk has always inspired me, i always wanted to experiment with it in a totally new way so hears my latest creation " THE CORN HUSK FLOWERS"
(Corn husk is the cover of leaves that encases the corn ).

MATERIALS NEEDED

• corn husk
• bending wire
• floral tape
• cotton thread
  
• artificial plastic leaves
  

just boil the corn along with the husk for 10 to 15 minutes to make the leaves soft and manageable ,now separate the leaves from the corn and cut them into rectangles of different sizes


Turn and twist the wire in such a way that a loop is formed at the top.

Fold the husk rectangles in half keeping in mind that the direction of the grain should be vertical.




Now take a small rectangle (folded in half )and start rolling it around the wire loop and secure it by winding cotton thread to it tightly.


Add occasional pleats in the lower ends of the petals, this will help to give a more blooming effect to your flower.



Tie each and every petal with the thread separately.


Gradually add larger petals to the flower.

Keep on adding petals until you are satisfied with the bloom of the flower.


This is how the flower would be looking from the bottom.


Cover the lower parts of the petal and the thread with floral tape and continue to cover the wire as well.

add the leaves to to the wire and thats all you are done now its up to you that you want to make a single flower of a whole basket for some dry arrangements.





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