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November 26 ~ Embellish!
| Today’s tutorials will help you spruce up your lovely sachets, hair goodies, pillows, tech gifts, purses, crafty gifts, slippers, kids’ clothes, belts, ornaments, whimsical creations, items for your purse or pocket, totes, lunch bags, home items, pincushions, aprons… Phew! What are you waiting for? It’s time to get to work! |  |
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Fabric Flowers Blair from Wise Craft shares her Fabric Flower Tutorial, with a template to download. |
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Yo-Yos Heather shares her step-by-step How to Make a Yo-Yo Tutorial via her blog, HELLOmynameisHeather. |
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Fluffy Flowers Beki from artsy-crafty babe has an easy Fluffy Flower Tutorial for you to enjoy. |
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Easy Appliqué Barbara teaches fun techniques in her Easy Appliqué Tutorial via her Barbara Brandeburg blog. |
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Covered Button Learn to cover a metal button with Stephanie’s Covered Button Tutorial on her blog, ruby crowned kinglette. |
Fabric Recommendations
Here are just a handful of fabrics we love for these projects:
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More Handmade Holiday ideas:
25 ~ For the Kitchen
24 ~ Sachets
23 ~ Soft Toys & Games
22 ~ Fun for Hair
21 ~ Pillows
20 ~ Gifts for Organization
19 ~ Tech Gifts
18 ~ For Baby
17 ~ Purses
16 ~ Gifts for the Crafter
15 ~ Warm those Toes
14 ~ Dress the Kids
13 ~ Placemats
12 ~ For the Table
11 ~ Reading & Writing
10 ~ Ties & Belts
9 ~ Fabric Ornaments
8 ~ Whimsy
7 ~ For Your Purse or Pocket
6 ~ Blankets for Baby
5 ~ Tote Bags
4 ~ Lunch Bags
3 ~ For the House
2 ~ Pincushions & Pins
1 ~ Aprons
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75 Responses to “November 26 ~ Embellish!”
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love the colored button tutorial
this is one of the best sites that I have came across, you should be very proud of the hard work that you put into it.
Thank you for all the great ideas! I have many, many plans for all my giftees this year.
I’m totally trying my hand at that those super headbands! All of my sisters would love ‘em. Thanks! Susan
love these!!
I love the fabric flowers, what a great embellishment!
I’m still trying to embrace yo-yo’s. Maybe if I made a few I’d figure out what to do with them? Love the easy applique directions – I’ve never seen the center cut out before.
I am LOVING all the tutorials. Time to get offline and make something!
oooh, I really love the buttons!
The flowers and applique are wonderful! =]
i especially like all the applique techniques. i’ll have to try some different approaches.
Love the applique tutorial!!!
Thanks so much for all the great tutorials this month! I’m so sad to see it ending.
Those flowers are so cute!
These are great! So many ideas coming!
Thank you for all these great ideas. Its so much fun to go through all the tutorials and get inspired.
Oh, the fluffy flower goodness…
-violet
Girls my fingers are so sore from all these projects! I dont know how many more days of this they can take! (-: Keep them coming though- you are doing a great job.
Kim
I love the flowers, so simple yet so effective!
I have never tried to embellish anything, these look like some pretty good ideas that I might have to try! Thanks!
Shorty
The flower tutorial is wonderful … Thanks!
wonderful ideas, some i have made before, others look fun to try. thanks!
the applique tutorial was great! I love how she uses the zig zag stitch to creat the 60’s craft era – brilliant!
SO glad to have this! Thank you!
What a wonderful collection of goodies you have – I want to make them all. Oh, to make the time! This will be a great reference site even after the holidays are over for gifts to make throughout the year. Thank you so much!
Your site is so wonderful…I’ve come across so many fantastic craft ideas…I only wish I had more time to make them all!
Thanks for more great tutorials.
Such SWEET embellishment ideas!
I am ALWAYS embellishing EVERYTHING…whether it be with embroidery or fabric flowers, I just can’t seem to stop…LOL. It’s the finishing touch IMHO.
Additional tutorials are up on my blog.
thanks for the continued inspirations…I’m so sad the month is almost over…drats!
have a great day!
With friendship,
Lisa
I am loving all the tutorials! I am slowly making my way through one from each day. I got a pile of old button forms to cover and can’t wait to snip away! I love the idea of the batting underneath the fabric.
I’ve been looking for a good flower tutorial — thank you!!!
thank you so much for all these wonderful tutorials – it is such a great idea. it’s giving me all kinds of ideas to mull over… and, thank you too for including my buttons among so many fantastic tutorials you are featuring this month…
-stephanie
WOW! I love them all! In fact, I just bought the buttons to cover! There is an idea floating around on the net to turn them into thumbtacks! I think that is a really good idea along with turning them into magnets!
I am really enjoying this blog–and hate to see the ideas end. Great collection of tutorials. Thanks so much.
I love making yo-yo’s! My handstitching got a lot better since I made the first few dozen…;-)
great, now i can attempt a few projects i have had my eye on.
Love the yo yo’s. Can make alot of projects with yo yo’s.
Thanks for a month of inspiration! What will we do when November’s over?
All fun ideas… I am forever indebted to Heather Bailey for her wonderful yo-yo tutorial. I make yo-yos for meditation lol…
I love fabric flowers. I’ve made the first one. Can’t wait to try the others.
Such cute flowers! I love them!
I’m running out of bookmark space… and idea space…
The easy applique is so cute! I have the perfect project for it!
i like the concept of the yo-yos, but i never know what to do with them.
I can’t wait to give the covered buttons a try!
I am still loving this month’s theme – I am working hard on some Christmas gifts! Do you know – can these flower type embellishments be washed with any success?
I LOVE LOVE covering buttons. And adding flowers and making yo-yos! so fun.
These are all great! A nice way to give that extra little added touch to any project. Thank you so much for posting these!
Thank you so much for doing this. It has been so much fun to see all the crafty people out there. Thank you for sharing everyone!
Loven those yo-yo’s and fluffy flowers!
Lovin’ that applique tutorial!
Those buttons are just too cute!! Cute as a button! Corny!!
I love all these great tutorials! Yours is the first site I’m checking every day! I’ll be sad to see it end!
I really like the embroidery covered buttons. I’ve made them before, but didn’t think to embroider something on the fabric first.
Thanks for all the hard work! I love the fabric flowers.
now to make those numbered buttons into an advent calendar!!!! ooooooh!!
I have made fabric fabric flowers before and they are adorable. I would also suggest using fray check on the cut edges to prevent fraying. It goes on wet but dries clear and slightly stiffens the edge. It insures a long lasting embellishment. You can also use this on yo-yos.
More fabulous ideas – I have heard of many of them – but gosh, to have a central location for all of this crafty goodness – thank you!
Oooh, love the covered buttons!
I’m going to make a bouquet of flower pins for coworkers. They look like so much fun to make.
The covered buttons are cute.
cute ideas!
yay for fabric flowers! I’ve been trying for a while now to make them on my own and I keep cutting them wrong. ^-^
Love the flowers
awesome! the fabric flower will make such a cute broach! thanks so much for the links once again
super cute
I want those buttons.
Those fluffy flowers look fun!
I love those buttons!
I love the fluffy flower. I’ve been planning on making yo-yos too.
I love covered buttons, I really need to make some, but I don’t know what to put them on.
I also adore yoyos, I have about 50 red yoyos waiting for me to finish putting them on something.
Love the Fabric Flower – gotta try that one for sure !!
so many projects, so little time- but i’m thankful for all of them! I wish i could craft all day.
Love these ideas! That’s what makes sewing our own things so much fun–the embellishing.
great ideas for additions to projects!
Thank you so much for your awesome blog! I had seen the fabric flower tutorial you linked here but could not find it again! Until now that is! And I have a blanket from my childhood made of alot of “yo yos” sew onto a soft peice of fabric and had been looking for a tutorial on how to make them. I am so happy to have one now. Some place on your blog is a pattern to make a duck pillow and I whipped one up last night and this morning and my 2 year old cant stop hugging it.