Yimi Handwork

Here comes the tutorial for the Fabric Tulips. Hope you'll like it Supplies: fabric: pedel-shaped : 3 leave- shaped 2 wire 20gauge 14" flower tape 13" fiberfill Tools: Glue gun Pliers Note: I drew white lines to show where to sew. Procedures: Step !: make the stem A. Stretch the tape gently, after stretch, it becomes a little sticky, B. Wrap the tape around the wire, starting 1/2" from one end, don't worry about the unwrapped part, it'll be hidden inside the bud. C. Use pliers to make a loop at the unwrap end Step 2: make the bud A. take 2 pieces of the pedal-shaped fabric, right face together, sew one side only, leave 1/4" seam allowance B. Sew the third piece and the piece made in step A together, right face together, it should look like this C. Turn inside out Step 3: Make the leave A. Sew the 2 peice of leave-shaped fabric together, leave the bottom open B.Turn inside out C. Sew along the edge Step 4:Assemle the tulip A. Fold the raw edge of the bu...

Here is the short cut to make tilted windmill, no need to work with triangles. All the measures are good for 5" squares. If you want to see larger pictures, you'll have to click on the picture. 1, make a template like this A. draw a 3 1/4" square on carton (or paper), you can cut it out now or later. B. Find the center of the square by draw 2 diagonal lines, the center is where the two lines cross c. draw a line parallel to borders, passing the center D.use a protractor to draw a line 57 degree cross the line drew in step C, passing the center E, draw a line perpendicular to the line drew in step D. F. clean all lines except the last two lines, and of course the borders if you haven't cut the square off in the first place. (G. Cut off the square if haven't done) 2 sew all the 5" squares you want to use together. I don't have any 5" square left, So I draw the assembling on a paper in order to show how to use the template. 3, use template 4, the bloc...

Finally, it's done!!! I've never thought it still took so long, since it was machine-quilted by my small home sewing machine. I wish I had a long-arm, it was hard to manipulate when the room was limited. Anyway it's done, I'm reasonably happy with myself and my sewing machine. I learned something from this project. Not love yellow very much, I rarely use this color. I don't have much yellow fabric either. But looking at how this area is lightened by the yellow windmill, it goes very well with red, blue and green. I'll buy some yellow fabric next time definitely. It looks retro, isn't it? Red windmills are actually less than both green and blue ones, but when looking at the whole picture, it appears there are more red ones. Red is more dominant, says any basic color book. Now I remember it. And I've been lazy, has anyone found it? I didn't quilt the border part. It's all right when looking at it, but in the photo, it's really showed, I g...

Winter here is long, almost half the year, white and cold, at the same time, fun and beautiful. I can't tell how I feel about it. Sometimes I love it, but sometimes I hate it. You wonder why people hate winter? Yes! they were cars parking on road. And you wonder why people love winter? You wonder why people hate snow? It was our driveway after a snow storm. Our Kitchen door And you wonder why people love snow? The last rose in my back yard, it was beautiful, isn't it?

Time keeps changing, spring comes and goes, but these flowers will never fade, bloom in the coldest winter. These tulip buds are actually by-products of that tilted windmill table cloth, which I just finished assembling. After cutting, lots of squares were left, with diagonal grain. I made a carton template and got a pile of these, three of them can make a tulip bud.

This set of plastic canvas watermelon coasters was a gift to a couple, I finished them on last Saturday and sent out on the very same day. I think I'm really a last minute person, no more how early I start, things always end up being finished at the last minute. This color is a bit off due to the light, there is no way to photo again. :) Put them together. I made some mistake when cutting canvas, so here comes these two. Can you tell where are the mistakes? I put extra stitches on to make up where I cut off wrong. That's the real color. :) Here are the mistakes. I cut off one gird more. The pattern is a freebie in Uniek Inc.'s website. Littledeer, a nice friend I met on internet, found and shared it with me. Here is the link: http://www.uniekinc.com/crafts.html

"Are you crazy?" My husband asked me, when he saw me cutting tons of 5" squares, sewing them together to make a big piece, and then again cutting the big piece into 3 1/2" square tilted windmill blocks, over 200 of them. This made him believe that he's right about patchwork: it's all about cutting big pieces into small pieces and then sew the small pieces into a big piece again, repeat the process if want to make it more complicated. "Not quite." I said, "Wait and see it finished. You'll know it's worth it." "When?" He asked. That question really shut me up. I have so many unfinished projects, who knows when I can finish it.