Snuggle Cape

I had some fleece that I never used from a previous project and leftover ribbon and a little boy who drags his blankie everywhere. I was hoping that making a cape of snuggly fabric maybe blankie could get a rest. So far no such luck.

Building of a Church: Backdrop

My first attempt at making a quilt top to be used as a backdrop. I made the bandng a pocket to be able to have a pole run throw it. I am not making a tutorial on the stand I made to go with it since it started to lean during the play.

Building of a Church: Ears

To go along with the tails I made 5 sets of ears. After searching the internet blogs for a bit I started to figure it out. I cut out 2 rounded bottom triangles and 2 smaller pink inner ear pieces.

Then I cut 3 small slits on the bottom of the ears to fold on itself and glue to make the ear cup.

I hot glued the ears to a headband and then sewed them aroung the headband for extra suport.

I added a tassel of yarn for the horses mane.

Building a Church: Robes

Part 2 of the costumes are generic robes. I wanted our church to use them for other projects so I choose neutral colors and mad a series of 12 "T" robes. I folded (half width-wise then length-wise) and cut a 40 inch length of cotton broadcloth. I cut an "L" shape to create the sleeve and body.






I cut a seam up the middle and a split in the neckline to make the opening of the robe. I estimated many of these measurements.









Sew bothsides of the "L"s and the opening and nekline of the robe. I folded over the top of the robe opening to a triangle to be able to sit flatter around the neck.

 Here are the 12 robes. 4 horses, 2 disciples, woman, owner, captain, 2 old men. Ready for the church's Palm Sunday play.

Easter

After reading Happy Easter Splat my son wanted a really big Easter egg for Easter. So we have a 19 inch 16 inch and 12 inch egg. He also got to pick the color. I decided to "Spring" them up with some vinyal and my Silhouette..

Building of a Church

 My family has been attending a newly formed church for a bit of time. Being that it is so new  (only 2 years total) it has many needs that lets my creative side flourish. I am going to tackle the Palm Sunday Play costumes. I figured I'd write about how I did this and some of the mistakes I run into. First up the 5 horse tails.

Horse Tails

 I first started out with the arm workout. I pulled a length that was about 1 and 1/2 yards long and kept pulling and folding over until I reached the fullness I wanted about 1 inch diameter.

Next I wound the yard wound the middle to hold it together.

Then folded it in half and wound more yarn around the middle to make a nice finished off pony tail.

I repeated 4 more times for 5 perky tails ready to worn on the back of the robes I'm still tinkering with.

Silhoutte Machine

 My loving husband bought me the silhouette sd machine I have been longing for. I had to muffle the squeal since it was delivered during naptime. Within and hour I was up and running seeing what I could create and making lists of thing to make later.  I whipped this up-cycle of a square vase. It has been sitting on my mantel and only looks good with I have flowers in it. Now it has a bit more presence, when I add some sand it look perfect.

 

Whoopdwhoop

I joined whoopdwhopp.com (a free trade site for crafting) just to see how it goes. I am intrigued with all the options other crafters have listed there. I already have my eye on somethings.

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tutorial superhero cape

This is a staple in the play at my house. The superhero cape. I have finally sat down to write this for all whom have played with them at our house. They also can be easily used as an long apron too.

Start with 2 half yard pieces of fabric.  Lay one on top of the other (fully unfolded) and secure, you'll be cutting both pieces of the cape at the same time.

Measure a half yard length of ribbon or string and tie a marker or chalk to end. Keep the  non-tied end in your fingers at the middle top of the fabric, this will help you trace a smooth half circle on the fabric. Start with maker at the bottom middle of the fabric and keeping the ribbon/string tight trace 1/4 circle return to the middle and trace the other 1/4.

I use pinking shears to cut to not have to go back and notch out the fabric. Sew wrong sides together all the way around.

Fold in half, cut 1/4 circle on straight edge fold for neck hole. I use a can lid for pattern. Turn cape right side out and stitch around all edges.

Cut 2 yards of ribbon, I use 2 inch wide ribbon. Mark the middle of ribbon and cape neckline, line up marks and fold ribbon over.  Pin and stitch the ribbon along the neckline.

The finished cape waiting a superhero.

Up-cycling

I made these beauties to girl-ify my home full of boys. Made with burlap recycled tshirt of my husband for the flowers and filled with old fiberfill from ugly pillows that came with the couch. The burlap runner is a tril run for High-Cotton antique store which is near by. Maybe one day my stuff will be featured in the store.

Hello

Welcome to my new blog!!!!!

I am a Imperfect Princess and this is my tiara. I wear it every day, it's a bit dirty but i love it.

My name is Kaylee and my journey through Happily Ever After started the day I married my husband. I believe it takes hard work to keep moving thru Happily Ever After.  It's hard to stay connected and find ourselves as we experience life together. But this isn't a blog fully committed to relationships.  My plan is to wide variety crafting, sewing, blessings, cooking and reviews.