Easy Fabric Covered Button Hair Tie

My least favorite day of the year is slowing approaching.... when the sun sets today, no food or drinks will be allowed until the sun sets again tomorrow night. Anyone else out there following this tradition for Yom Kippur? It's so horrible! Anyway, I have the next 24 hours planned so I can be "distracted!" Meanwhile, I want to show you something I made today.

Remember the cute dress for a little girl I finished yesterday? I decided to make the recipient matching hair ties so she can wear them with the dress. I think she will be one very happy girl sporting off her lovely dress and pony tails?

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These were so easy to make! I put together an easy fabric covered button tutorial for you. 

STEP ONE

 

Gather your supplies: fabric scrap, hair tie (duh!), scissor, marker, and upholstery cover buttons. I got mine from JoAnn's fabric. They are cheap, about $4 a pack. Each packet contains the following four tools (shown below) that you will need to make fabric covered buttons. I don't know what these four things are called, so I will just refer to them as tool "A," "B," "C," or "D."

STEP TWO

Use your marker and trace a circle twice the diameter of tool C. This is when you want to think about which part of the fabric you want to cut out for the button.

STEP THREE

Cut the fabric, and place the fabric right side down, over the white mold (tool A). Then, press tool C into tool A (the white mold) with tool B (the blue cap); see picture below. 

STEP FOUR

Remove tool B (the blue cap), this is what it should look like. 

STEP FIVE

Place tool C (the flat metal thing) into the white mold, and use tool B (the blue cap) again to push everything together; it helps if you place everything flat on the table (see image below).

STEP SIX

 Simply remove tool B (the blue cap) and press the bottom of tool A (the white mold) to remove your finished button. 

That's it! These are addicting, I think I may have to make a few more. 

Cute Dress for a Little Girl

You know how sometimes you see something super cute and just feel like you have to make one too? Well, that happened to me this weekend. I was reading Fuzzy Cut's "Another Little Dress and a Big Race" post and fell in love with the little dress she made using Leila & Ben's pattern. I purchased the pattern on Monday, bought the fabric on Tuesday, and finished making it in just two hours tonight; that's what I called sewing on steroids! 

These colors should go well with the girl's complexion.

 

 These floral pattern and colors scream S P R I N G to me, too bad winter has arrived.

This dress was so unbelievably easy to make! I hope the recipient likes it. By the way, I really need to get some labels designed and made so I can put them on my finished products... Any recommendations?

Baby Shower Favors

When it comes to favors I am always the first to volunteer. I enjoyed making wedding shower favors for my own wedding. Not sure if it's the design process or the massive production that I enjoy. This time, I get to design and make baby shower favors! This was my first time, but I am quite happy with what I put together.

Pink baby bottles with smarties and adorable labels made by me :)

I ordered these pink bottles from BeauCoup. I received updates about my order, and it came in two days. I will definitely order from BeauCoup again. I purchases the punches and pink card stock from JoAnn's Fabric today.

If you are reading this and know the special guest of honor, please do not spoil the surprise for her. 

By the way, this is my 100th post! Wow.... thanks to those of you reading my blog, it feels great to know you are out there reading this. Thank you! :)

Mini Apron for Dish Detergent Bottle

I think I may have made one of the cutest items for my mom's kitchen this weekend! My mom has this detergent bottle that "I" find extremely ugly, so I decided to dress it up a bit. I created a pattern that will allow this apron to be reversible with some type of pleats or ruffles around the edge. Ruffles ended up very difficult to work with, mainly because they were too small, too ruffly and too curly.

The front side.

I decided to use the pleats instead, super happy with how they turned out.

The back side.

with a red heart pocket.

Ugly soap detergent bottle all dressed up! I swear I don't understand what this detergent is...

Here is how the back looks all tied up.

I think I will do the dishes for my mom tonight! 

Let me know if you are interested in a free tutorial, I am happy to write one up.

More Goodies from Taiwan

One of the many things I love about quilting stores in Taiwan is their pre-made project kit. They go through the trouble of cutting up fabrics and assembling everything you need to make something. Of course, I got a few of those.

Super cute bunny bag

It has everything I need. See that cute heart zipper!?

 

Every time I visit Taiwan, I have to bring back Japanese books because they are actually translated to Chinese, and I can read Chinese!!

Ah, finally! Yoko Saito's Patchwork Lessons 1 & 2 in Chinese!

More books.

I almost got a copy of this "ABC Patchwork Lesson" by Kumiko Fujita here in the US. Thank goodness I didn't because the one I purchased from Taiwan is way cheaper and is in Chinese!

I swear I can buy up the entire section on quilting and many other crafts if I have the luggage space, these books take up a lot of space and are quite heavy. Until next time.... thanks, Taiwan, for a wonderful trip! :)