Fabric Skater Boy Cuff Tutorial

1. Cut out two pieces of fabric and 1 piece of quilting batting measuring 9 inches long by 2.5 inches wide. 

You can adjust the length and width if needed but this will fit from ages 3 up to a small adult. 

 

2. Place your fabric pieces that the right sides are facing each other. 

Then place your quilting batting on top of them. 

Use a few pins down the centre to hold it secure.

 

3.Straight stitch around the around the outside of your fabric and batting leaving an inch wide gap at one end so that you can turn it in the right way. 

Remember to reverse stitch at the beginning and end of all your sewing. This will hold it secure.

 

4. Next, using a wooden spoon handle or chopstick, feed your cuff through itself and back out the right way. 

Please see pictures below.

5.Tuck in the fabric at your open end and straight stitch it closed. Remember to reverse stitch at the beginning and end of all your sewing.

6. Next, to add structure and support to the cuff stitch straight lines down the two sides and centre. 

Remember to reverse stitch at the beginning and end of all your sewing.

7.Next, hand stitch your button on the opposite end of your cuff. Before stitching your button in place overlap the two ends to determine how tight or loose you would like it. 

Alternatively you can sew 2-3 buttons vertically down the end of the cuff for varying sizes.

8.You are almost finished!!! Cut a length of thin (approx 1cm wide) ribbon approximately 6 cms in length. You will also need a button approximately 2cms wide. 

Looping and placing your ribbon as shown in the picture below, straight stitch it in place reversing your stitch back and forth a few times to ensure its strength.

9.You should now have a finished fabric cuff that looks like this. How about trying out a whole range of colours and for the girls you can add bling or flowers to the top it. 

 

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Craft Projects - Picture Pretty

There seems to be an overall problem with photo uploads lately but Blogger has suggested a way around this.

So i want to take the opportunity to share with you some of my more recent craft projects that I'm just a bit chuffed with that i wasn't able to share in my previous post.

Without Further Ado:

 

The first dress i ever made. The first thing i ever sewed at all. It is now too short to be a dress so i did this instead.....

 

 

 

Ran up a super cute pair of matching shorts to go under it!!

 

 

 

 

This little dress currently fits Miss C and is made from gorgeous vintage fabric gifted to me by my mum. The same wonderful woman who taught me to sew in the first place!! Thanks Mum. xx

 

This is a little handmade birthday gift for one of my nieces. A simple monogrammed tote bag, Shabby chic bow hairband and ribbon bow hairtie.
 

Some of the fabric flowers I've made - These go really cute attached to headbands. Ive even done a few custom school colour orders...like this:

 

Ive also been making hairclip holders. Such as these:

 

 

There are so many more hairclip holders, bows, headbands and dresses I've had the privilege to make but i don't want to overload you with photos.

 

Id love to do a few posts with step by step tutorials for a few of them and i hope you will have the joy of making your own. If crafting and sewing isn't really your "thing" but you still want something for yourself, i do sell some of my creations over on facebook and would be happy for you to visit me!!

 

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Crafty Hiatus

Like so many people i took a bit of a blogging hiatus over the holiday season.

I have also been spending a lot of my quiet moments crafting over the last couple of months.

I love to read and spend time with my family and don't really get a lot of absolutely "i have nothing to do" free time BUT i really needed something that was more for me than anyone else. Something that gave me a different sense of accomplishment and let any of that creativity in my brain run riot.

Like a lot of crafting and sewing it first came from a need and a want. My daughter could do with some new dresses and i wanted something "more" than what i was doing with my time. Something was missing. Something that was about me and not anyone else.

So i bought a simple sweet pattern and asked me wonderful mother to come over and help me learn.....and from there it has grown to more dresses, hairclip holder and flower headbands.

Ive even opened a little page on facebook. Some beautiful ladies have either bought some premade items from me or custom ordered their own. I'm so grateful for them as their different needs and wants sparks something new for me to create.

Id love to share some of them with you. xx

*** I seem to be having an upload problem on my blog. This post has been in draft for a little while now as it wont let be upload any photos to share with you. So id still love to share some of what I've been creating with you so feel free to have a look at my facebook business page Clippie Catchers.
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Link back to Plagiocephaly Journal

I just wanted to do a quick link back to the Plagiocephaly helmet journal that i kept for the months Miss C had to wear her medical helmet.

I know that there are lots of other bubs out there who are having this treatment, need this treatment, who needed it and didnt get it or who may be asking questions.

So if you need or want to know more about Plagiocephaly, head over and feel free to take a look.

Find the blog of our journey we took over at http://caitlynsplagiocephalyblog.blogspot.com.au/