Plastic Bag Zippered Pouch

Ever wanted to melt plastic into fabric? Hehe.

Start with 5 or 6 plastic bags. Cut off the handles and cut along the seams to flatten the bags into flat, manageable rectangular pieces.

Ideally you want big piece so you end up with a big piece of fabric at the end, but if this is your first time trying this I would recommend using smaller pieces, maybe half of the bag instead of the whole thing. If you only use half a bag, then you just need 3 bags and you have 6 pieces!

Lay the pieces on top of eachother, as flat as possible. Put butcher paper (or lots of sheets of white paper, nothing with writing or print on it) on your ironing board, then place the plastic sheets over the paper - this will keep the plastic from sticking to your ironing board. Then place another piece of butcher paper on top of the plastic bags to keep the plastic from sticking to your iron.

Iron all of the layers together. I did it all at once, but looking back I think it might be easier to just add one new layer at a time.

After making the "fabric", you can create nifty little bags like this zippered pencil pouch! It fits my Zune, earbuds and power cables nicely and holds its shape.

This was completely hand-sewn and I didn't use a pattern - probably should have. It ended up being just a little bit lop-sided.

Make Your Own Xbox Achievement

I came across this awesome website that all Xbox Gamers have to try out.  It lets you generate your own achievement images.

Bit of background for those who aren't familiar with XboxLive.  XboxLive profiles have Achievements and Gamerscore.  Achievements basically can show off different feats that you have accomplished in Xbox games.  Gamerscore is a numeric value assigned to an Achievement in which you can collect like points in a game.  The higher the gamerscore you have, the more you can prove to the world that you are a hard core gamer. 

So anytime you achieve an Achivement during gameplay this little logo pops up at the bottom of the screen, like this. 

Tee Hee Hee, but is there an Achivement for Crafters In Disguise?  Well I made one.  A german blogger made this little appliation online in which it will generate an achievement image for whatever text you give it.
http://achievements.schrankmonster.de/

 If your a Xbox Gamer you've got to play around with this.  If you do, dont forget to share with us what you made (please no profanity or crude images).

Lace Top Hat

I just tried to make this hat, cause it was too cute of an idea to pass up. I think it turned up pretty well.
Oh look it's Hannah again, I ended up giving her the hat before she left for Japan to teach for a year. 



I made my own hat frame out of red plastic canvas (it's a grid for needle point work).  1 circle, 1 donut cut circle, and one long strip. Tied it all together with fishing wire.  Slap on some lace slathered withe glue and let that try.

Add some decorations like a red feather (a white feather that i coloUred with a red sharpie) and some extra red mesh.

-Rini

Materials:  Plastic Canvas, Lace fabric, Satin Mesh, Feathers, Fishing wire (grabbed some clean strands from my dad's tackle box)

Tutorial - Chobits Persocom Ears

Persocom(from Chobits) Ears



Ingredient List

1. Pink Craft Foam
2. White Craft Foam
3. Hair Accessory
4. Glue (I’m using hot glue)
5. Iron

Directions
Directions
1)Fold a piece paper and cut out a template of the persocom’s ear from a front view. The crease
should be alone the ‘outside’ edge of the ear
2)Open it up and cut out two pieces from the white craft foam.





3)Iron the craft foam.
4)While it is soft and hot, quickly create the fold and hold it in place until it cools. Once cooled the foam should hold its shape. Pretty neat huh?


Pretty Example





5)Now cut out a pink strip has show here. Cutting the frays will help curve it correctly inside the piece.
6)Trim to size. Doesn’t it kinda look like sushi?




7) Glue
8) Place



9)Cut out circles for their ear embellishments. I use biscuit cutters to create a perfect circle imprint.
10)Glue on the ear embellishments. Even though they don’t have that pink piece that I’ve done here, I think it helps the embellishment stand out more


11)There are many ways to attach the ears using different hair accessories. It’s best to pick which accessory you are most comfortable with wearing for a long period of time.

• HeadBand – most popular because it will always guarantee that it is at the location of the ears. But the hairband is visible, and it’s uncomfortable to be place on top of the ears. If you go this route, use a thick headband (more comfortable on the ears) and cover it with a Lolita headpiece.
• HairClips – gives a more natural because the clips are hidden and can be clipped to the wig for stability. If clipping to fallen hair it won't be as secure.Can you imagine ears that shift several inches when the persocom is running?
• Hair ties - It’s pretty secure but again the shifting depending on the hair style. It also bunches the hair (which is fine for some looks but not all).

12) Yay, done