THANK YOU DIY #7
My kittens!
Last night I was having dinner with some friends, and I must admit that they gave me a good talking-to... With nano attacks on my language tics, my dyslexia and so on... and one of them said to me: "I've read that you've even called your readers 'my chestnuts' ...". I'd love to be someone's chestnut, or even worse, their little heart of butter, so I'll ask you: does it bother you psychologically that I imagine you as little chestnuts, which is better than a big chestnut? Although I could call you my little marrons glacés, I don't think I'd have any problem calling you that. If I go too far with stupid nicknames, censor me.
Anyway, back to the heart of the matter today... Since the beginning of the blog, I've been celebrating your loyalty and love with a little contest every 1,000 followers. And lately I've fallen behind, for which I apologize profusely... Life really is rich and I've had jobs all over the place! How I wish I was a wonder woman, or had a magic hourglass so I could live 48 hours in one day (any reference to a Harry Potter movie is coincidental). I'm giving you a little DIY/contest to say THANK YOU once again. Thank you for your words, your e-mails, your encouragement, your winks and your photos... Even if I don't have time to reply at the moment, I'm working on it, and I want you to know that I read you with the same delight as always. To start catching up, I'm offering you the chance to win a weekly head band, "a knot that holds itself", all you have to do is write me a comment telling me what your worst nickname ever was... I'll draw the winner at noon on Saturday and put her name at the end of the article! It's up to you and I love you!
For this DIY, you'll need :
- - A 74 cm x 21xm rectangle of fabric,
- - Wire (fairly flexible) 130cm,
- - A pair of scissors,
- - Thread, needle and felt-tip pen,
- and the PATRON.
To begin, fold the fabric rectangle in half (right sides together) along its entire length fig.2. Flatten this fold using a slightly hot iron fig.3. This will help you trace the PATRON of your head band. Take your pattern, traced on thick paper, and transfer it to the back of your fabric. Use the fold as a base to limit the number of seams (yes, I do find solutions to make your work easier...) fig.4. Using scissors, cut at 1cm from your pattern line, this will be your seam value (cut the two layers of fabric together) fig.5. Then use the machine to stitch the head band to your line. You can pin the two sides together before you start, if that makes you feel better fig.6. A little tip: to slide the wire into the head band, don't start sewing at the beginning of the trace, but plan to start sewing about 3 or 4 cm further on. You'll close this hole with a hand stitch later fig.7. Turn the entire head band right side out, sliding it through the aforementioned hole fig.8.
Here you have the beginnings of a headband...fig.1. Not bad but not crazy, plug your iron back in to flatten the seams fig.2, it's starting to look like something. Take the wire and form a circle, and to close it, twist the ends together fig.3. Fold this circle in half, so that you have a kind of wire breadstick (sorry for the picture) fig.4. And start feeding the wire into the hole in the head band fig.5. Once the wire is completely in the head band, close the hole with the wire and needle. fig.6. And here's a little tip: for better shaping, make a small stitch by hand in the points at the ends of the head band, taking care to wind the wire so that it stays in the point of your knot... fig.7. And TA-DA! fig.8 ...Enjoy!
The winner of the contest is Alexandra with the adorable nickname of Booger...Thanks for participating! Love!