This Week's Crafts

Jessica — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:59:00 -0500

Shorts to Skirt Conversion

I finished converting a pair of blue jean overall shorts into a overall skirt; these are just for wearing around the house. Simply seam rip the rise of the shorts and for each leg, fold one short leg over the other and cut away any excess fabric. Pin and sew. Nothing difficult or fancy.

Hemmed Suit Trousers

I hem most of my pants; so, there is nothing particularly special about me hemming trouser pants. But this time I put an extra special stich around the end of the fabric so that it wouldn’t unravel (as quickly).

Finished Blue Scarf

The only good thing about buying too much of a single color of yarn is that when your creation has become too worn, you can simply recreate it with your extra yarn.

T-shirt for Blythe

Jessica — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:10:00 -0500

How to make a cool t-shirt for your Blythe baby

The following pattern comes from Puchimadam:

t-shirt pattern here

So, total props to Melissa for helping out the rest of us budding Blythe lovers. I have previously made the sun dress from her site, and the pattern and instructions are very straight forward, just as the t-shirt pattern was. Just in case you want to read a bit more about what to do in creating the Blythe t-shirt before you get started, here are the steps I took:

Step1: Buy fabric and wash. I typically have some scraps from other sewing projects laying around that I can use. Get the ironing board out, and heat up the iron.

Step 2: Print and cut pattern out for regular printer paper.

Step 3: Place pattern on fabric. Align pattern on portion of fabric you want to display. On the fabric I just used, there was no need to center the fabric over some design in the pattern because the pattern was small. See picture below.

Step 4: Pin paper pattern to fabric.

Step 5: Cut pattern out of fabric, and take pins out. You should have something that looks like the piece on the left-hand side of this picture: Step 6: Fold the edges of sleeves and hem under one at a time, starching and ironing as you go. Sew down the edges that you have ironed down.

Step 7: Hem the neckline. Fold the neckline under and sew.

Step 8: Fold the two “wings” of the fabric over so that the raw edges meet for form a t-shirt looking thing.

Step 9: Sew the raw edges together.

Step 10: Turn the shirt inside out, and place on Blythe doll. Take note of how much you should hem the back of the t-shirt for the shirt to close properly (too much and you won’t be able to close the shirt; too little and you will have a bunch of fabric left over).

Step 11: Hem the back. Sew on velcro or snap buttons.

All done!

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T-shirt for Blythe