Fabric scraps pom pom bracelet tutorial

Here's another fabric scrap pom pom bracelet that I've made. i was emailed to ask if I could make a tutorial for it and it's takena little longer than planned but I've finally gotten round to it.

To make one of these you'll need the bits shown in the photo and a small scrap of felt.

1. Cut your piece of fabric into 4 equal strips. Put one to the side as this is for the pom pom later.

2. Put a dab of glue on the inside of the bracelet and adhere one end of the fabric to it. Wrap the fabric round, dab another blob of glue on and adhere the fabric.

3.Continue to do this till the whole bracelet is wrapped. (If you have a claps like my bracelet does then trial wrapping the fabric and opening/closing the bracelet before you glue it to make sure it works still)
4. Once the bracelet is fully wrapped glue the fabric end to the inside of the bracelet and trim off any excess fabric.

5. For the pom pom, take the spare fabric strip, cut it into 8 pieces then cut a circle from each roughly the same size.

6. Cut an equal size circle from the scrap of felt as well.

7. Dab a small blob of hot glue into the centre of a fabric circle.

8. Whilst the glue is still soft scrunch the fabric together, holding it at the glue blob till it dries.

9. Do the same with the remaining 7 fabric circles.

10. Glue one of the scrunched fabric circles to the centre of the felt circle.

11. Glue the other 7 scrunched fabric circles onto the felt so that none of the felt is visible, this completes the pom pom.

12. Glue the back of the felt and stick the pom pom onto the bracelet.

13. Trim any rough, uneven edges from the pom pom till it's even and tidy.

14. Put your bracelet on and wear with everything, then make one with every fabric scrap you have lol.

I'm linking this to the lovely parties listed on the right hand side!

V-Day Frame

I've never bothered with Valentines decorations before but after seeing so many lovely pieces out there in blogland I thought I should give it a try too.

Can't claim credit for the twig heart, mum bought us that to join the wall fo hearts we have in our dining room. But the framed piece is my first bit of V day decor for the house using subway art as the background and pom poms to make the heart, both of which i totally dig at the moment..

I've used:

• Subway art from Krista's blog
• 7x5 dark wood frame (good ol' hobbycraft sale)
• Corrugated card (to mount the subway art on)
• Pink felt
• Pink t-shirt scraps (for the pom poms and little hearts)
• Good ol' trusty glue gun

So now both these lovelies are sitting up on our mantel making it look fab!

what do u do when a pair of jeans die.. part 2

So I had a brainwave how to use another denim scrap from the dead pair of jeans... a pom pom ring to complete the set I made last week :)

Working on the suggestions for the next project on what to do with the leftover denim..

Over the weekend I'll be posting a tutorial for the bracelet as a few people have asked, so come back and have a look then!

What do u do when a pair of jeans die?

What do you do when a pair of jeans die? Well most people would throw them away but not me.. is it that I hoard? won't let things go? or do I have a greater plan for them in their 'next life'?

Well in this case it was a rather nice pair of jeans that I had many ideas of what I could upcycle them into now that they had the rather inconveniently placed tear in the fabric. I took great pleasure in taking a pair of sharp scissors to a leg of the jeans and shredding it into more usable pieces.

So from the one leg of the jeans I made a large pom pom brooch, pom pom necklace and denim wrapped pom pom bangle too :)

Now what to do with the other leftover leg, any ideas?

I'm linking this to some of the lovely parties on the right and also to Little Miss Momma's Pom Pom Party