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Dilly Dilly Doll

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 10:29.
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Two Dilly Dilly dolls
Dilly Dilly doll pattern head arms & legs
Dilly Dilly doll body/dress
Cut out material
Cut out pieces of material
Head sewn and stuffed
Legs sewn and stuffed
Arms sewn knotted and stuffed
Body/dress sewn
How to attach legs to body
Sew across corners of body base
Attach hands
Sew hair and features on head
75g split peas and some lavender to weight the dolls body
Fill body with split peas and lavender attach head
Finished Dilly Dilly doll

Why Dilly Dilly doll? Because "lavender's blue Dilly Dilly"

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Chick chick chick chick!

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 18:16.
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chickens filled with lavender
These chickens are very easy to make, the body is based on how to make a juggling bean bag.
Take a rectangle of fabric measuring 20cm x 11cm fold in half with right sides facing. From a small amount of felt cut out a beak, wattle and comb put them in place sew up. 2 sides (seam allowance 5mm) Turn chicken inside out, at this point with black embroidery thread make 2 eyes using french knots. Fill the chicken with a small amount of stuffing, split peas for ballast and lavender. Sew up the final side, fold under 5mm seam allowance and top stitch.
chicken - 2 seams sewn, eyes sewn in place waiting to be stuffed
Stuffing, split peas and lavender
4 chickens
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Gift Box

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 19:34.
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Five different box designs
21cm x 21cm piece of card, draw in pencil lines from corner to corner
fold tip of one corner to centre point, repeat on all four corners
make a second fold to the centre, repeat on all four corners
just to indicate were the folds are I have marked them with a broken line to make it clearer
make four cuts as shown, stopping at center square
cut away four triangles as indicated
fold as indicated to form box
fold as indicated to form box
fold as indicated to form box
finished box
box ready for decoration

box top and bottom
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Father's Day Cards

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 09:30.
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4 shirt card designs
This gives you the basic idea how the card is constructed, click on website link in the body of main text for full instructions
construct of card
finished card, I used a page from a comic for the tie
Origami shirt, refer to website link in the body of the text for full video instructions
This shirt I used a page from a comic
I used wrapping paper for this shirt
This shirt was made with paper measuring 13cm x 7.5cm. Buttons and pocket added with a pen

I have found two easy Father's Day cards to make. Card designs for men seem to be limited, so I was pleased to find these and they can be used for birthday cards too. The designs can be easily adapted to suit the recipient's taste and their sartorial style Origami shirt and tie card video. Get creative with the tie, add a tie pin if you like.

super hero shirt
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How to make a summer lantern

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 21:02.
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jar lanterns
jars
items you will need to make lanterns
making a handle
making a handle
attach a second piece of wire to make handle, add beads at this point if desired
Cut out mulberry paper to fit jar with 1cm overlap
Paint the jar with the watered down PVA
Place paper onto the jar
PVA the bottom of the jar fold over paper
PVA over the top of the paper to seal it
Stand the jar on its neck and leave to dry

These pretty lanterns are really easy to make you just need a few items-

 

Clean jars with the labels removed 

Mulberry paper or tissue paper, mulberry paper is more robust

PVA glue, watered down to a ratio 1:1

Garden wire

lantern with bead handle
3 lanterns
summer lanterns
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