Quick beaded friendship bracelet

I know this new year post is well over due but 2014 has so far been unbelievably busy, meaning that until now I've not been able to do anything crafty. But last weekend I made  a super cute blue friendship bracelet. If you want to make one yourself the instructions are further on in this post.

You will need:

• 3x 160cm embroidery strands
• 3 to 5 large beads
• scissors

Instructions

1. Fold the 3 strands in half and knot leaving a loop at the above the knot as seen bellow. You should now have 6 strands.
2. Next groups the strands into twos, making 3 strands. Now start platting.
3. Platt for 1.5cms then thread the middle strand through your first bead. Cross the two remaining threats bellow the bead and carry on platting.
4. Repeat step three until your bracelet is the required length.
5. Platt for a bit longer, to make a the clasp, and knot off.
6. Finally cut the strands place round your wrist and use the extra length to knot to tie round the loop.

I hope this has inspired you! 

Christmas eve (final gift rapping)

If you're anything like me you always leave rapping until the very last minute. I have done that again this year :)  and so while I was at it wanted to wish you all a very merry Christmas. And finally I will leave you with a Christmas duck.

 Once again I hope you have a very merry Christmas!

Count down to christmas (week 3)- Really last minute pressents

If you still haven't got a present yet (then you've left it very late this year :) ) but still want to make something personal for your friend, family member or anyone who you want to give a gift to, then I have the perfect video for you, which I found on YouTube!

I thought this may be useful for you, even though some of the ideas are not as crafty as I usually do for Christmas as I believe they are very easy to do as last minute gifts.

I hope this has inspired you!

Count down to christmas (week 2)- Pot of Love

This one is a very simple but time consuming present all you need is:

• Paper
• Jam jar
• Ribbon
• Scrap piece of square fabric

How to make your pot of love:

1. First write 52 (one for every week of the year) loving, inspiring or just simply nice and cute  massages on your paper and cut them up.
2. Now fold your messages in your jam jar.
3. Next screw on the lid and place your piece of fabric on the top of the jam jar.
4. Finally secure your fabric in place by tying the ribbon around the bottom of the lid. 

I hope this has inspired you!

Count down to christmas (week 1)- home made soap

There's nothing more personal than giving a home made item. My first home made item of my christmas pressies is soap. You may remember that I blogged about making my first ever bar of soap here. I made them using this video tutorial.

From there I started to come up with designs as shown bellow. These are great as a centre piece of a present or as a present on it's own. However I should warn you that it takes 3-4 weeks to be ready for giving, so if you want to make them as pressies get making now!

 I hope this has inspired you!

Count down to christmas

Hello fellow crafters, it's that time again... IT'S CHRISTMAS! Well almost. over the next four blog post I'll share with you what I'm making for my friends as presents. My hope is to give you some last minute ideas before Christmas, so stay tuned.

Elf shorts

A while ago for my school textile project I had to make a pair of pyjama bottoms. I made mine for my little sister. I used a thin green and whit polka dot cotton material and lined the hem with red ribbon, as I finished quicker than expected. My final decoration was the green and red bows.
Once I had finished my classmate commented that they looked like elf shorts, which was kind of cute as I finished them a couple of weeks before Christmas.

This was also the first project I had done using an over locker.

Sadly these shorts no longer fir my sister but I'm keeping them anyway because of the memories they hold and how cute they are.

I hope this has inspired you!