Twirly Circle Skirts

Written by Sereina:

This month I finally made a second circle skirt using some fabric I had bought months ago (you can read about my first skirt below). I had picked up this pretty green floral fabric at Jo-Ann's way back in September. Four months later, and I finally made it.

Since I already had a pattern made from last time, I didn't have to spend my time making it and got to start by cutting pieces out instead.

On my first one, I rushed through the process, since I wanted to get it done and wear it so bad. Because of that, my hem turned out pretty bad looking, so with this one I took my time folding and pinning the hem, making it look nice and neat even before I sewed it.

Here's a picture of the hem on the first skirt. It's pretty bad looking.

And then here is the hem on my second skirt. Much better!

My First Colorful, Super Pretty, Amazingly Twirly Circle Skirt

Written by Sereina on March 19, 2011

This week, I sewed a circle skirt. My very first circle skirt. I was super happy when I found a tutorial for a circle skirt with an elastic waist instead of a zipper, and knew I wanted to make one. Also, we had just gotten the latest Jo-Ann Fabrics add in the mail, which included a 50% off coupon. So my mom took me to Jo-Ann's and I picked up a couple yards of a wonderful and colorful fabric. I made the mistake of not creating the pattern before going fabric shopping, so when I was ready to cut out my pieces, I didn't have enough fabric. I was glad there was another 50% off coupon so I could buy enough fabric for the other half of the skirt, since the fabric was normally $9.99 a yard.

Other than not having enough fabric, the skirt was really simple to make. The hardest part was doing the hem. Some parts of it didn't turn out too well and there was an quite a lot of fabric to hem.

I love how it twirls!

Felt Ornaments

Written By Sereina

Last year I came across a book called Fa la la la Felt just after Christmas, so I've been waiting till this Christmas season to check it out from the library. It's an awesome book filled with simple felt crafts. There are three sections: ornaments, decor, and stockings. So far I've made two ornaments, a bird and a bell and today I started on a candy garland. 

I made both of the ornaments with materials I already had. The felt was left over from other projects and I got the buttons from Tiana (she has tons of them). 

You may recognize the wing fabric as the material I used for my circle skirt.

Alina's Schleich Videos

As I mentioned in my last post, Horses - One Interest Two Bents, Alina made a video using her Schleich horses.  In September she took her collection outside and made a video introducing all her Schleich animals that she had at the time.  

As you can see from this video (above) she has many (and has added several since then) and has named each and every one of them.

This video (above) is the first episode of a series she intends to make of the adventures of Kovu and his herd.  This was all done with the video option on her point and shoot camera and then edited on MS Moviemaker.  She used a tripod to keep her camera stable in the scenes.  The entire project was something she came up with on her own, created the story, produced, edited, etc. all on herself.  She has episode two put together and waiting for the editing process, so there will be more to come soon.

Note:  If you are receiving this post as an e-mail and are not able to view the videos, you will be able to view the video's at the blog site by clicking on this link:  A Delightful Journey

P.S. The video's seem to work on Alina's computer, but not on mine... please let me know if they are not working on your computer.

Christmas Wreath

By Sereina

While I was blog reading, I came across a project using the inside of an embroidery hoop as a base for making a wreath using live greenery (I found it here. Those snow globes would be fun to make as well!) I liked the idea of using the embroidery hoop, since their cheap and easy to find, and then suddenly inspiration struck: I could use strips of fabric and tie them onto the hoop to make a wreath. We have a bit of Christmas fabrics that had been sitting in a bin and never got used for many, many years, so I though it would be perfect for a Christmas wreath. It's also a great project to use fabric scraps with as well.

Luckily we have lots of embroidery hoops in sock at our house right now, so I grabbed a 9" hoop and that Christmas fabric that I mentioned earlier.

It was so simple to make, since all I had to do was cut the fabric into strips (I didn't measure mine, but I'm guessing they were around 7"x1.5") and tie them to the hoop. I alternated my colors, using one red, then a green. Mine took about 112 strips.

The finished wreath. It's now hanging on the outside of my bedroom door.