Tag: sewing
Terima kasih, bulan Mei ♥
“Appreciation is wonderful thing : it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well”~Voltaire
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Hellooo.. Wow, time goes so fast.. May will be ended so soon.. Yet, I still have job matters to be finished on the weekend.. Niceeeeee.. Well today, I just want to take away all that jobs.. Yes, my fingers’ preferences are updating blog instead of boss’ assignment.. Hehehe.. Stealing time to tell my story about one of my plushies, Koyer the monster which become exist in one of the hits magazines in Indonesia.. ♥
Ahhh senangnya.. Ternyata ada juga yang perhatian dengan blog tekokecil.. Dengan segala klitik’an amatiran alias DIY, ‘do it yourself’ yang saya buat di waktu-waktu senggang.. Beneran lho, amatiran.. Baru juga setaun punya mesin jahit.. Belinya aja modal nekat, pakai gaji pertama ditambahin sama ibu soalnya gak tega liat anaknya punya uang tapi kurang.. hihi
Terima kasih bulan Mei, khususnya Dhea dan majalah Joy Indonesia yang udah khilaf kali ya masukin karya saya..?! Apalagi dijejerin sama craft blogger lain yang kece berat.. Saya jadi minder.. Ada yang bikin toples lucu, lukisan dan gelang.. Those are all pretty and genuine .. Sementara saya, masih pake pattern dari blog orang lain..
Tapi gapapa, namanya juga memulai.. Nanti dan very soon, saya mau bikin sesuatu yang pure my ideas.. Eh tapi kata ibu meskipun masih “contek” blog orang lain, si Koyer tetep beda kok.. Selain itu gak kalah lucu dan quirky di antara karya craft blogger yang lain.. hehe.. That is mom, she let her daughter always high and blush.. ♥
Anyway, Koyer juga gak kalah seneng lhoo bisa masuk majalah.. Walaupun cuma bisa bersuara “Yerr.. Yerr” aja, tapi dia kegirangan dan loncat-loncatan di kasur.. Udah gitu loncat-loncatannya ngajak temen-temennya, si Arimbi the long legs bunny dan Laras Sari the twins.. Rame banget ya.. Mereka bikin berantakan kasur aja niih.. hihi.. Tapi gak apa-apa kok..Gak mau gangguin boneka lagi happy ahhh..
Celebrate your happiness, Koyer!!
Nah ini dia penampakan cover majalah JOY Indonesia edisi Mei 2014.. Cantik ya Vanessa Hudgens!! Nyesel deh kalo sampe gak kebeli majalahnya kemarin.. Apalagi di dalemnya ada Koyer.. :p
Buat teman-teman yang gak sempat beli majalahnya karena bulan Mei segera berakhir.. Ini, saya kasih khusus satu halaman tentang Koyer yaa.. Hehe.. Due to JOY Indonesia copyright, I can’t publish all contents.. Sorry for bad picture.. I hope you can still read it.. Selamat membaca dan mari bikin karya sendiri 🙂
See you at next post.. Semoga bermanfaat dan menginspirasi yaa..
“Terus belajar bikin proyek seru dengan menjahit” ~Nisita
Love,
DIY Coin Purse ♥
“The life so short, the crafts so long to learn”~Geoffrey Chaucer
Helloooo!!!
Finally last Sunday, I became so productive.. At least one DIY thing could be made although my body was so poor.. Beforehand, I had 4 days nonstop visiting expo in Singapore for job matters.. It was so tiring but fun also (big allowance, nice hotel and flight, much time for retail therapy.red) hihi.. FYI, not much Sale signs at shopping mall there, but I got forever21 traveling pack for only $4 .. It seemed like it was enough to make my eyes sparkled .. Okay, enough, too much unnecessary stories revealed .. Hihi let’s do the coin purse ♥
In the last post, I told you that I had purchase some fabrics in some online shop.. Yes, I bought the floral, polkadots and plain fabrics.. All in bright colors (totally boost my mood).. As these things arrived at my house, I did really excited.. Wohooo cotton never goes wrong.. Anyway, I bought coin purse frame too, I bought the bronze one for only 13.000 rupiahs.. Indeed, really want to make a coin purse so I had prepare all the materials from far in advance.. ♥
I used two kinds fabric, the floral for outer and the fuchsia for inner.. Floral ribbon is used as “brand tag” inside, I would attach it manually in the inner pattern.. Poms for outer lining (for sure, poms would be great for giving such cute and girly vibe in my coin purse) ♥
First to do is drawing a pattern following the frame.. I decided to make an oval pattern.. You can make rectangular pattern or any other kind patterns.. Don’t forget to give a sign to your drawing which denote the edge of the frame (see the dashed line).. It means that you have to stop the stitching there, later..
Ironing the fabric for sleeker result and easier starting.. After ironing, we can cut the fabrics accordance the patterns which we had previously make ..
I did the inner first.. I attached the floral ribbon in this plain fabric manually.. It would be like a “brand-tag” (just for kicks, hehe).. Due to easiness, I prefer hand-stitching than using a sewing machine..
Move to the outer pattern that used floral fabric.. I started to sew the poms following the outer line.. ♥ These poms would make my coin purse look different.. Really love the poms poms poms ♥
Now I have two parts of my coin purse, outer and inner part.. As I told you when I start drawing the pattern, “Please, pay attention to the dashed line!”.. It is used as a limit for your stitching, means stop sewing right at that sign.. (The opens part would be attached by the frame, later..)
After that, join both parts.. Fit them and start to do a blind stitching/ ladder stitching between the outer and the inner..
The result should be like this
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After done with blind stitching for both side.. I could attach the bronze frame to my semi finished-coin-purse .. There are holes around the frame, all I have to do is just stitching the fabric following the holes..
Woosaaah.. My coin purse is already done!!
Cute, isn’t it? The shape is a little bit “mencong-mencong” .. Asymmetric.. But this asymmetric-idea doesn’t bother me at all.. Hihi.. As I can put my coins here (but wait, it’s too pretty for putting coins) .. 😀
Peek – a – boo
This coin purse should be great for a gift to some besty too, right? I think I’m going to give this to my mom, my best of the best person in this universe.. I hope she doesn’t mind with the asymmetric shape a.k.a mencong-mencong.. hihi I also made a lifetime warranty card for more exclusive gift for her (besides she can immediately complained and claimed whenever the coin purse is damaged, hehe) ♥..
Hopefully my mom will love it..
I can see my mother in the kitchen
My father on the floor
Watching television
It’s a wonderful life
Stomp my boots before I got back in.
~Boots, The Killers
Well, enough for today.. I hope you like my DIY coin purse.. Happy Crafting!! Have a nice Monday, everyone..
“What is bought is cheaper than a gift.” ~Portuguese Proverb