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"Undersea Tawashi Collection"

6 patterns, $4.50

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"3 Flower Tawashi"

3 patterns, $3.50

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How to make moulded leather flowers

When is a rose not a rose? When it’s made of leather! It’s actually very easy to make leather flowers that look sophisticated, but are deceptively simple. Today we’ll learn how to mould leather to make roses and other flowers. You can wear them as jewelry or hair accessories, dress up a bag or belt, [...]

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Japanese fabric flowers - how to make kanzashi

Kanzashi are Japanese hair decorations, usually worn in traditional Japanes hairstyles with kimono. Today I’ll show you how to make a round-petaled fabric kanzashi. These can be attached to hairpins, combs or sticks, glued to brooch backs, sewn to clothing, and so on.

There are many kinds of kanzashi, made from various materials – lacquered [...]

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Simple leather flower hair accessory

For this week’s Saturday Quickie, we’ll make a simple leatherwork project, this elegant flower hair accessory.

You’ll need:

3 leather scraps in different colours length of covered elastic scissors and/or craft knife paper and marker pen

Fold the paper into 6 and draw a petal on it. Cut out, and unfold, then use it as [...]

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Flower cellphone case – how to sew felt 2

Here’s part 2 of our basic sewing tutorial. On Wednesday we made a coin purse and learned how to sew whipstitch. Today, we’ll learn backstitch and blanket stitch, and make a bright floral phone case (or camera case, or eyeglasses case…)

With these three stitches – whip stitch, blanket stitch, and backstitch – you can [...]

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