tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59641677692684092312024-03-12T19:56:28.321-07:00Emergency CrafterIdeas for the last minute. Donna Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206592997359240703noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964167769268409231.post-79956332400422775192015-04-27T07:14:00.002-07:002015-04-27T07:14:50.579-07:00Glitter Glue "Batik" Beach Bag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Use Elmer's Glitter Glue* to draw design** onto white duck cloth. Let dry overnight.<br />
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Paint over and around glue with slightly diluted acrylic paints. Let dry overnight.<br />
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Soak glue off for 3-6 hours in warm water in the bathtub.<br />
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Heat set the design by placing it in the dryer for 30 minutes, or until dry.<br />
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To assemble bag, follow instructions on http://www.marthastewart.com/265551/easy-beach-bag<br />
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Use paracord for bag drawstring/straps.<br />
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*Glitter Glue dries faster than gel glue, and doesn't run and spread like the Elmer's blue gel glue.<br />
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**Design for whale image borrowed from Underwater Friends Fish Panel fabric on http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MNTGUR8/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1HP5MJPHWV3WI. <br />
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**Design for jellyfish image borrowed from Anna Dunlap's archival print at https://www.pinterest.com/pin/124482377170739786/<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1. Make frog eyes, legs, and optional handle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As you can see, Pocket 1 and Pocket 2 can be cut from any fabric (here, a scrap of green I had on hand). Back pocket is cut from a pink polka-dot fat quarter, because it shows when the frog's mouth is open.</span></div>
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Real Mayonnaise, about 1-1/2 cups<br />
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Sprinkle a dry rub on the meat. She has used seasoning from the Rendezvous (Memphis, TN), Daddy Hinkle's, and is currently in love with State Fair Seasoning from the Oklahoma Pork Council. Next we will try Head Country Seasoning.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Honey Mayes is my
mother-in-law, and she has been cooking for over 70 years. She grew up on a farm in western Oklahoma,
wearing dresses made from feed sacks (it takes three 100-pound feed sacks to make a
dress), picking potato bugs off the plants and dropping them in kerosene,
milking cows and gathering eggs in the mornings, killing chickens for dinner,
and using an outhouse to do her business.
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cranberry salad for over 50 years, since before there were food processors, and
she used to chop all the ingredients with a hand-cranked grinder .
Her cranberry salad is a traditional holiday favorite. Pecans, apples, and celery give this salad a satisfying crunchy texture;
sugar and Jell-o provide the sweetness to balance the tartness of the
cranberries. Eat it as a side dish with
turkey or ham, use it as a condiment on a cold turkey sandwich, spread it on
toast, or eat it alone as a dessert.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using the shoe pattern, cut 4 pieces of outer fabric, 4 pieces of lining fabric, and 4 pieces of batting. Using the sole pattern, cut 2 pieces of lining fabric, 2 pieces of batting, and 2 pieces of a non-slip gripper fabric, such as Dritz Anti-skid Gripper Fabric for Pajamas and Slippers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you can't find anti-skid fabric, cut 2 pieces of some other fabric and--when the slippers are completed--apply hot glue to create anti-skid "treads" on the bottom of the slippers (</span><a href="http://prudentbaby.com/2009/12/baby-kid/quick-tip-no-slip-slippers-2/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">as shown on prudentbaby.com</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transfer the "A" and "B" marks from the pattern to your fabric (both outer fabric and lining). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark the center of the sole fabric at the toe with a large dot. Mark the center of the sole fabric at the heel with a different color dot (or an X). You want to distinguish the toe from the heel, so you don't sew the sole on upside down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow the eight steps below, and you'll have soft, warm slippers in no time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Pin sole to shoe. Match toe seam of shoe to large dot on sole. Match heel seam of shoe to different-colored dot (or X) on sole. Make sure right sides are facing: the anti-skid fabric of the sole is facing the outer fabric of the shoe. Stitch all the way </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">around.</span><br />
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Cut a right angled "V" from the 8-1/2" corner of a piece of cardstock. <br />
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Press under the inner seam allowance that you left open for turning.<br />
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Pin the finished V to the towel. Pleat the section of the towel between the two "legs" of the V. <br />
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Stitch through all thicknesses of pleated towel and V fabric. Stitch again over pleats. <br />
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Insert the other end of the towel into the triangle where the V is sewn to the towel edge. <br />
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Grammar tip of the day: <b>Their </b>belongs to them. <b>There </b>tells where. <b>They're </b>not interchangeable.<br />
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<br />Donna Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206592997359240703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964167769268409231.post-66785228360123183002014-12-15T13:18:00.000-08:002014-12-15T16:05:47.158-08:00Pocket Potholders make easy last minute gifts<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Make a potholder with a pocket...tuck a gadget into the pocket...stick a magnetic memo pad inside...tie it up with a nice bow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cut out a 4" x 8" rectangle for the pocket using half of your cardstock pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cut a strip 2" x 8-1/2" (any fabric) for facing the pocket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cut a strip of pre-packaged cording 8-1/2", to trim the pocket. (If you prefer to make your own cording, cut a strip of fabric 8-1/2" x 2-1/2", along with 8-1/2" of cording to be covered. Click here to see how to cover your own cording; it's easy).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sew the contrasting cording onto one long edge of the pocket, raw edges together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Press under a 1/2" hem on one long edge of the pocket facing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With right sides together, sew the facing onto the pocket, aligning the raw edges of the pocket, the cording, and the facing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuck a wooden spoon, knife, spatula, basting brush, whisk potato peeler, a recipe--you decide--into the pocket. Tie with a ribbon, raffia, or scrap of fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make the matching towel holder shown here. It's my own design updating a very useful old idea for hanging kitchen towels. <a href="http://emergencycrafter.blogspot.com/2014/12/towel-hangers-update-on-old-favorite.html">Click here for photos and instructions.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grammar tip of the day: <i>Your</i> shows possession. <b>Your idea</b>. <b>Your call</b>. <i>You're</i> means "you are." <b>You're welcome</b>.</span>Donna Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206592997359240703noreply@blogger.com0United States35.746512259918504 -95.273437510.224477759918503 -136.5820315 61.268546759918507 -53.9648435