DIY Sew: Bucket Bag



 

Materials:

7 to 10 Sq ft of sheep's hide leather
Purchased here on Amazon.com
Rotary cutter
Ruler
Double sided tape
Leather Punch
Sewing Machine
Leather needle
Polyester thread

Step 1: Cut leather using the below pattern

Due to the size of the piece of my leather I needed to cut the main piece in 2 instead of 1

 

Step 2: With right sides of leather touching tape the right, left and bottom sides of leather together (only at the edges)

 

 

Step 3: Sew across the bottom, and up the sides, be sure to use a leather needle, adjust tension to 4, and stitch length to 3 1/2 (note this is what I used, this will vary on every machine). Note: Press as lightly as possible on your presser foot while sewing. After sewing the sides, join the corners, tape, and sew (do this to both corners)

 

 

Step 4: Turn bag right side out , punch evenly spaced holes 2.5" apart and 2" down from the top (5 on each side)

 

 

Step 5: Sewing the strap: Tape the two pieces of leather together (wrong sides together), sew up both the right and left sides (sew in the same direction)

 

Step 6: Cut 1/8'' by 25" piece of leather and thread it through the holes

 

Step 7: Sew the strap onto the bag

 

 

Done!

 



DIY Sew: Iphone Case

 

Materials:

1/4 yard of fabric

1/4 yard of interfacing

1 magnetic snap

plastic iphone case

embroidery floss

 

Step 1: Cut two pieces of interfacing: 4.25" x 2.5" and 8.5" x 5"

Cut two pieces of fabric: 8.5" x 2.5" and 8.5" x 10"

 

 

Step 2: Install snaps: use fabric chalk and draw a vertical line at 2.75" about an 1.5" in from there place a washer. Use a pen and mark both slits of the washer. Use scissors to cut slits where the marks are. Placing the interfacing under the fabric install the snap.

 

Step 3: With Good sides of fabric touching pin and sew three sides of the fabric



 

Step 4: Fold in fabric on side you did not yet sew, and sew

 

 

Step 5: Fold in fabric 2.5", pin and sew only the top and bottom

 

Step 6: Take your smaller piece of fabric and interfacing and install the opposite side of the snap. Mark slits, cut, install snap.

Step 7: Fold fabric over, pin and sew (top, bottom, and left side only)

 



 

Step 8: Turn fabric right side out, fold in remaining fabric and sew up right side only

 

Step 9: Sew the smaller piece of fabric onto the larger piece



Step 10: Cut out a hole for your phone's camera



Step 11: Use embroidery floss and sew around the edges of the camera hole



Step 12: Super glue a plastic iphone case into the inside back portion of your fabric, let dry, and pop in phone



 

Done!!



DIY: Yarn Wrapped Bottle

Happy New Year! Here's a really easy craft to start the year off on a productive foot.

 

Materials:

Hot Glue Gun

Yarn (2 colors)

Empty wine bottle

 

Step 1: Peel the label off the wine bottle by soaking the bottle in soapy water

Step 2: Start from the top of the bottle, apply hot glue and wrap yarn around the bottle

 

 

Decorate with Michael's crafts fake flowers and you're done!



DIY: Makeup Holder

 

 

Get ready for a quick, cute, cheap 30 minute DIY project...

Step 1: find an old dip/salsa container or mason jar

 

Step 2: Wash out the jar, and soak in soap in water. After about a half hour you should be able to easily pull off the label



 

Step 3: Using twine and a glue gun, glue and wrap twine around the lip of the jar

 

Step 4: Use tape to wrap jar (I went around 3 times). I used Little B: Gold Foil Moroccan Window; found here; for sale at A.C Moore.

 

 

Done!!

 

 

 





DIY Sew: Canvas Tote

 

A few weeks ago, I made this tote bag. I was so happy how it turned out I wanted to make another, this time in canvas.

 

I purchased 1 yard of 9.3 oz black canvas fabric from the website onlinefabricstore.com

For the lining, I used some flower fabric from my stash

 

Follow this tutorial, the only exception is to install the pocket to the lining fabric and not the canvas.

 

 



DIY: Yarn Rug

 

I've been seeing tutorials for yarn rugs for awhile and after realizing I was running out of storage space for yarn in my apartment I figured it was time I tried the project out for myself.

 

 

 Materials:
12 Skeins of yarn
1 Non-Skid Rug Pad 2 ft W x 3 ft L
Cardboard from toilet paper roll
 

Step 1: wrap yarn roughly 30 times around the card board from a toilet paper roll

 

 

Step 2: Pull yarn off the cardboard roll and cut a long piece of yarn to tie around the center of the yarn ball

 

 

 

Step 3: Cut both ends of the yarn

 

 

Step 4: Run fingers through yarn

 

 

Step 5: Make about 100 more pom poms

Step 6: Tie pom poms onto rug pad

 

 

Finished!