My Little Engineer

Don't you just love it when your children bring things home from school that they have made. I was really amazed when my 5 year old Samuel (who has Aspger) at what he has been making in Prep. The thought that has gone into it is extraordinary. Actually children do amazing art because they aren't inhibited by fears of failing but rather are excited by the world of possibilities that a box full of recycled bits and pieces holds.

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Creating Your Own Art Work

I found a great way to design your own wall art through a on-line website called Scape Interiors. This is what I came up with:

Fabric Flower Tutorial

I found saw this fabric flower tutorial on a blog but for the life of me do you think I can find it now. So I decided to try and do it from memory. It actually turned out pretty good.

 1. First I cut out a square piece of material.

 2. Then I found something round to trace a circle onto the material.

3. Then I cut out strips of material that I would use to make the flower out of. Due to  not being long enough I sewed them together with french seams.

4.Then I started to sew the strips of material on the square piece. Whilst doing this you need to add pleats as you go. If you stop each time you go over your pleat then make sure the needle is still in the fabric, lift up the foot and add the next pleat. Then put the foot down again and sew until you have just gone over the pleat. Then repeat the same process as you go round the circle.

 Now I want to make smaller ones and I can put them onto some hair bands. 

 

Other Ideas for Using Your Quilting Hoops

easy d.i.y.: quilt hoop fabric frame

I was given a heap of different home decorating magazines. Whilst I looking through them I have come across some really inspirational ideas, (which of course is the whole point others wise they wouldn't be very good home decorating magazines lol). One idea I thought was really cleaver and I really want to try is making a cork board out of quilting hoops. So it tried to google it to see if I could find the idea somewhere else. I couldn't find that exact idea but came across so many other ideas that you can do with them and some other different ideas for cork boards.

Quilting Hoop Drum

This is really great idea that you can make for your kids.

Liberty of London Swatch Portraits

I think this a wonderful idea. Will definitely try and do this around the house.

Embroidery Hoop Wall Art

Floral Bloom On Embroidery Hoop

Wall Hoop Decor

 I love when you google a certain topic and find these wonderful blogs. Will defintley be checking out Lushlee again. Very inspirational and some wonderful ideas.