Webster’s Pages…

Jul 6, 2009

I am so happy, I can finally tell you all my news… I am now part of the Webster’s Pages Design Team. I was lucky enough to have Webster’s Pages as a book spon­sor and now get to be part of their amaz­ing team. If you are not famil­iar with their prod­ucts you really need to check them out here. Their prod­ucts, color schemes and designs are incredible.

Today, I cre­ated this brooch using the trim and lace they debuted at CHA-W 2009. It is their Ivory and Cream, Coco Ruf­fle, Spring Green Lat­tice and Turquoise Petite. I am going to attach this to either a purse or t-shirt… not sure which one just yet.

Vin­tage Brooch Tutorial

1. Cut a piece of Ivory and Cream lace to 12″ in length. Thread a sewing nee­dle with three strands of embroi­dery floss, start­ing at one edge of the lace begin gath­er­ing at one end all the way to the oppo­site end, tightly pull the ends together, dou­ble knot and trim the tips of the lace off using scis­sors. Now cut towards the cen­ter of the lace approx­i­mately 1.25″ leav­ing a space between each cut approx­i­mately 1.25″ apart.
2. Cut a piece of Spring Green Lat­tice to 12″ in length. Thread a sewing nee­dle with three strands of embroi­dery floss, start­ing at one edge of the lace begin gath­er­ing at one end all the way to the oppo­site end, pull the ends together you do not want to pull the ends too tight as you want the flower to be approx­i­mately 2.5″ in diam­e­ter, dou­ble knot the embroi­dery floss to secure the ends.
3. Cut a piece of Coco Ruf­fle to approx­i­mately 12″ in length. Cre­ate a cir­cle by care­fully wrap­ping the trim in a clock­wise direc­tion. The diam­e­ter of the cir­cle needs to be approx­i­mately 2″.
4. Attach the Spring Lat­tice Trim on top of the Ivory and Cream using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive. I use Fab­ric Tac. Attach the Coco Ruf­fle cir­cle on top of the Spring Lat­tice Cir­cle using the same liq­uid adhe­sive. Then using a glue gun attach a vin­tage rhine­stone in the cen­ter of the Coco Ruffle.
5. Cut a cir­cle from felt mea­sur­ing approx­i­mately 2″, cut a 6″ strip of Turquoise Petite, fold in half, using Fab­ric Tac attach the trim to the felt cir­cle, then attach the felt cir­cle to the cen­ter back por­tion of your brooch.
6. Using a hot glue gun attach a pin back to the cen­ter of the felt circle.

I hope you try mak­ing one… it is super easy to cre­ate and has lots of dif­fer­ent uses.