Weaving pillow with ribbon

Weaving pillow with ribbon

Weaving pillow with ribbon

Folding a pyramid with palm leaves, video tutorial

 

Can be woven loosely for a grape effect or folded tightly for a pyramid shape.


Folding a pyramid with palm leaves, video tutorial

Easy way to folding fish (palm leaves and paper)

Easy way to folding fish (palm leaves and paper)

Palm Leaf Fishes

Palm frond art

While riding in a boat tour around the cultural center, Mary learned how to make this fish from a palm frond.

Things You Need:
1.   Piece of palm leaf
2.   Scissors
3.   Ruler
4.   Small knife
Tutorial
1. Take a piece of palm leaf.
2. Use the small knife or your thumb fingernail and insert it at the base of the stalk.
3. Run the knife or fingernail down the base of the stalk, all the way to the tail end of the palm. 
4. Pull off the stalk and save it for later use.
5. Take the two pieces, (still intact at the widest end) measure one inch from the widest end and cut.
6. Take the two cut pieces and even the up.
7. Take the ruler and measure 14 inches from the cut end.
8. Take the scissors and cut at the 14 inch mark.
9. You now have two even pieces of leaf to make your pinwheel.
10. Take the two even pieces of palm and make a cross.
11. Use the left thumb and first finger to hold the pieces together in the center.
12. Bend the top end of the vertical piece towards the center, and hold it with your thumb in place. 
13. Repeat the same process with the bottom vertical piece.
14. Hold the pieces of palm with your left fingers and use your right thumb and first finger to bend and insert the right horizontal end into the top loop.
15. Repeat the same process with the left piece and bottom loop.
16. Use the right thumb, slowly release and slip the end of the bottom loop into the right loop
17. Repeat the same process for the left side.
18. Use all your fingers to pull and hold the four ends, while forming the pinwheel.

 19. Folding the pinwheel wing at the right bottom  parallel to the diagonal.

20. Using the the pinwheel wing at the right top, folding over the pinwell wing that  parallel to the diagonal and threaded down the diagonal.
21. Using scissor to cut fins for the fish
To make paper fish you can make with the same way.

Palm Fish

Photo: http://flick.com

Palm leaf Hopper tutorial

Palm leaf Hopper tutorial Split the leaf Remove a leaf from a palm. Using a pin split the leaf in three, separating the hard center vein from the leaf at both sides. Leave the last 2cm intact at the side that was connected to the palm.

Carefully run your nail along the vein to soften it so that it’s more pliable. Fold the vein back on itself and tuck under the leaf where it’s still connected. It might be easier for you to use a tiny bit of putty or Oasis fix to keep the vein in place while you practice doing this and later you will find it’s easy to hold in place while you weave the body.

Start weaving the body Fold one side under and then over the vein. Pull tight. Do the same with the other side and pull tight.

Continue weaving the body two or three more times depending on the length of your palm leaf.

Butterfly Body

Create feelers (Antenna) by tucking the two sides of the leaf into the vein loop and pulling the vein snug. Separate the side strips and carefully run your nail through the length of each to curl as you would ribbon.

Tie and curl the Butterfly Feelers

Top of the Butterfly Finish off the body by weaving the long center vein around itself and cut short. Cut the tail end if required.

Fly or Hop?

You can now add leaves for wings or cut the left-over vein in 2 for legs to tuck into the body.

Grasshoppers Read more: http://www.christinedebeer.co.za/?p=1119

Sexy fashion for women: Mara Hoffman Inspired Woven Tee

Things you need for this DIY:

*over-sized T shirt

*scissors

*needle and thread

Total time:
20 mins

Total cost:
super free

  

Sexy fashion for women: Mara Hoffman Inspired Woven Tee

mara hoffman diy

I am obsessed with Mara Hoffman this season, like everyone else. This shirt has been on my mind. I want to make a hundred versions of it. Here is one...

Ignore that this shirt is Ed Hardy. My dad gave it to me as a sleep shirt...so what?

Cut the back of the shirt like above. Start with a cut up the middle then cut five strips on each side.

I cut too many at first.

Weaving montage...

When the weaving is complete, vertically cut the ends of the strips off.

Then cut off the excess at the bottom.

Sew along red lines.

mara hoffman diy
And you're done. Easy peasy.

mara hoffman diy

mara hoffman diy

mara hoffman diy

Enjoy!

Weaving Scarves. Original weaving

   

Weaving Scarves. Original weaving

Craft ideas

Crafts for summer: weaving butterfly tutorial, kids craft ideas

Crafts for summer: weaving butterfly tutorial, kids craft ideas

	You can use any round flower loom to weave the butterflies.  I like to use Hana-Ami shadow clover. looms with twelve spokes will also work, but you'll have to experiment to see what you want. If you use a shade with 24 spokes,  your wind shadow  , leaving the empty three-spoke in the top and bottom.  For the 12 said the loom, I would try to leave an empty saying.
	Subject needle with yarn you want to weave with. You will need to cut the yarn long enough to ensure the center and weave a large wing. Start by weaving a single thread, under the same (and so on), the opposite is true.  Write 4 "/ 10cm tail to weave in the beginning later.
	When you went all the way around again, the next round is going to weave a single thread in one, and so on all around.  You'll be weaving a theme that you went  for  the last time.
	Pull the yarn tight enough, as you weave.  This will ensure that the center of your butterfly and stop it from losing its shape when you remove it from the shadows.
	At the bottom of the machine to move one or two loops with a spoken form of the lower wings.  If you use a 12 spoke shadow does not worry about moving them, not just weave them yet:)
	Weave the upper wing, is going under a stream over a whole. Repeat these steps for each row of weaving. Weave as many lines as you want, then squash in a couple to fill the loop stream, when you take the butterfly from the loom. Cut the thread, leaving a 4 "/ 10cm to darn in later
	Weave the other wings in the same way.
	When you have finished weaving, make a butterfly with a loom
	and gently insert the refill line weaving loops, which remained on the pegs. Secure loose ends of yarn threads on their hinges at the back of the weaving.
	When you are finished you will have the basic shape of a butterfly.  You can experiment with stripes (just leave a few inches at the end of each color, and darn it later), or variegated yarn with short wavelengths of each color.
	Make all the parts you want for your scene.  See  my article on the use of colors loomed embroidery  ideas, and  my article about embroidery on the flowers  .
	To embroider your body butterfly and attach it to the background at the same time, make one big stitch up the center
	Then bring your yarn from the right side, slightly higher than in the upper part of the center stitch.
	Subject yarn under center stitch
	and take the yarn to the back on the left side. Protect your thread on the wrong side F of your work. Now you have a ready-made butterfly firmly attached to your background fabric. Repeat these steps for your other butterflies.  You can experiment by changing the length of the body stitch length of the antenna, adding sequins or beads to the tips of antennae or embroider more information on the wings. Found on the internet