Mini Pringles Embroidery Hoop (again)

✩Hello there and welcome to a new video!✩

As previously seen on this blog, here's a fun way to recycle a Pringles tube into a mini embroidery hoop! What you'll need:

✩ a Pringles tube (or any similar type of chips/crisps container)
✩ a pair of tiny and pointed scissors
✩ a marker

Wipe your chips tube, ça va sans dire. Trace a line at about 1,5 cm from the top edge and cut it out. You'll probably need to fix the shagged raw edge you'll get by cutting it evenly. This will be the bottom part of the hoop.
Now trace some dots around the edge of the plastic lid, at about 1 cm from it and cut the circle out, your mini hoop is now complete, yay!

Enjoy!✩✩✩

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✨A quick video showing you what I call the "poor girl's embroidery hoop" made out of a pringles tube. Suitable for small designs, it's a great way to spend some sweet DIY time✂ * Remeber to wipe it first! Unless you wanna make odorama embroidery 😆💖✨ * * * #poorgirldiy #prodigioustrash #doityourself #diy #crafty #nifty #embroidery #handembroidery #handmade #craftsposure #broderie #bordado #ricamo #刺繍 #자수 #вышивка #تطريز #stickerei #feelingstitchyig #modernembroidery #contemporaryembroidery #embroidelicious #makersgonnamake #embroideryinstaguild #embroideryartist #stitchersofinstagram

Un post condiviso da ProdigiousTrash (@prodigioustrash) in data: 3 Set 2019 alle ore 10:27 PDT

Drawing tiny tiny stars...

Drawing new business cards to toss into envelopes with every order. I wanted to update the castle design but apparently I can't really break the habit!

 

Drawing all the sparkles looks like a very tedious job but it's relaxing and great during telephone calls or boring tv shows. Did I mention that silence is so very unbearable to me? Always need some kind of background talking or music but I digress!

Need to do some test prints of these few designs and then decide which one will be the staple for 2018.

☽ I'm on Youtube! ☾

Here's my very first video on Youtube, making some business cards!
Enjoy!

♥ Magic Wrist Pincushion! ♥

♥Hi!

Here's a cute wrist pincushion I made the other day from an old embroidery. It looks like a magical girl tool but, since sewing for me is magic, it IS indeed a magical tool.♥

There was this unfinished embroidery on denim made a while a go lying around. So I cut around it leaving the seam allowance. For the back I used a silver faux leather material and mirrored the heart shape. Filled it with wool scraps and sewn all around it, folding over the denim as I went. For the wrist band I measured out my wrist circumference and cut elastic to this length. Inserted the elastic in a tube I made from sparkly silver fabric and sewn a loop. Then attached to the back of the heart. Finished all off with pink lace trim and voilà! 

Making this was a perfect stress releiver, I've been so busy with dayjob and custom orders that I really needed to make something cute for myself. This will hopefully encourage me to get back to sewing more often♥

Here are more pics of the magic pincushion:

 

♡ DIY Mini Weaving Loom ♡

Hello! ♡

Since I discovered a super easy way to make cute wall hangings using a diy weaving loom I've been filling my work room walls with them, it's also a good way to use some scrap yarn as well as little branches I've picked up while hiking. I thought it was nice to share here the way I made my loom and here it is (so easy I am ashamed): 

Materials:

♡wooden frame (I used a brand new canvas frame so there's still the plastic around it)

♡some pushpins

♡yard (or twine)

♡scotch tape

♡a small branch

♡scissors

Flip the frame over and pin the pushpins on the smaller wooden sides at equal distance (if you want your loom to be bulletproof you can use some nails and a hammer), then wrap the yarn (you can also use twine) around the first pin and make a couple of tight knots. Pull the yarn around the first pin of the opposite row of pins, and then again up and around the second pin of the other row and so on until the last pin (it's really easier done than said). Knot the yarn tight to the last pin and... take a moment to admire your work, you made yourself a loom! 

Now grab some cute yarn and you can start your weave by knotting one end of it on the loom yarn at at least 1 inch far from the pins. Wrap the other end with scotch tape to make it easier to go through the loom. Go over and under the loop yarn to create a beautiful simple weave, of course you can create a million different patterns and designs, even using different colors/materials.

When your work is complete you can simply pull gently the loops out of the pins or just remove the pins. 

To hang my work I just slipped a branch through all the loops of one side and hang it with some more yarn and a nail. On the lower end of it I cut open the loops and knotted them.

These are two of my hangings using different sized looms:

 

Enjoy!
♡

♡ DIY Time - Revamping An Old Pocket Mirror ♡

Hi! ♡

Today I found, lying sadly in my bag, one side of an old heart-shaped pocket mirror I don't even use because I can't stand the fabric pattern on the back. I had to face it and decided to turn it into something beatiful, here's how it turned out:

 

 

 ♡ and here for the instructions: 

 

♡ So I opened up the back of the mirror, removed the frame and ripped the ugly fabric off, discovered an heart shaped piece of (old) cardboard, that you can definitely replace (me lazy).

♡ I found a nice fabric and placed it on my trusty embroidery hoop, traced around the shape of the cardboard, making it slightly bigger than the actual heart (a quarter to half an inch is ok) and started embroidering a cute design.
♡After this I cut out this shape and applied a piece of light fusible interfacing to set the stitches in place and make the whole thing sturdier.

♡ I grabbed my extra badass glue (mine is yellow and smelly) and carefully dabbed a few drops on the back of the cardboard, and placed it onto the back of the fabric.

♡ To make everything less messy I sewn (approximately) around the hangings of the fabric to keep it closed and still.

♡I finally glued the mirror carefully on the covering and glued the little frame as well to finish everything off. Put a weight onto it to dry (about one hour) while pressed and voilà:

♡ I'm so in love with it! ♡

✩DIY TIME!✩

Hi!

Today I'll show you  a custom embroidered patch I made for my shop.

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I used a Pringles tube cap and upper border to make a tiny tiny loop. I cut a circle out in the plastic cap to make the opening of the loop:

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Though it isn't a very precise circle it does its job!

Here's a step by step of my embroidery:

✩and the finished patch:

Had so much fun doing this, also for the word aha. Now it's on it's way to its new owner! ✩