Colour Splash

I am so ready to show you, what I finished last weekend. I turned a plain place mat into a bright and colorful piece. Its easy to do as it requires simple hand sewing.  I bought a place mat from Ikea...loved its deep wine color and  that was the reason behind the purchase. As you know, the idea was to turn it into some thing colorful and festive. I picked the bright felt pieces that reminded me of  Holi . Design inspiration for this  patch work piece came from Suzani pillow work. I saw some lovely images on Google. I totally love the designs and the colors used in the embroidery.  Here is the link ...hope you will enjoy the gorgeous images as I do.  

Cute little bag

Creative recycling ...is not only a wonderful thing but it very satisfying to see the end result. I love up-cycling  and that was the idea behind the small bag, I made for miss sunshine. I got my sewing machine last November  and to tell you the truth I don't know much about sewing. So this is my first practice project with my new sewing machine. I hope to get better at it in future...guess i need more research and practice. For this bag, I used gunny sack and old cotton dress of my daughter. I cut a square piece out of the gunny sack covered it with the cotton fabric and  added colorful flowers made out of felt scraps. Here are some pictures...hoping to improve my sewing skills for the new project.       

Paper Flower 4

Hello dear friends.... aren't these peachy family of roses pretty? I love the softness of the color and how the delicate petals brings the darker hues in the middle. This is my last flower post for the month of March. I am getting addicted to flower making and spending more time on Pinterest. It's amazing to see so much creative talent out there. These roses made with coffee filter...I colored them in very light shade of orange. The small roses are made with 12 small circles and bigger ones with 20. You can use crepe paper too.... that will look wonderful too. Here are the pictures I took while making it. In April, I will be sharing some of my sewing projects.Hope you all have wonderful weekend!

Paper Flowers 3

Hello dear friends! Hope you are enjoying the beauty of the changed season. I am just loving it. Since flowers are blooming outside i have decided  to make all my this month posts to be the flowery one.Today I have come up with another form of making flowers using tissue paper. I have seen tissue paper pompoms so much  over the web I made some for my daughter's bed room ...she loved it and enjoyed making them too. Here I am sharing the pictures of  tissue paper flowers we made yesterday. They are fun to make and add lot of colors to the room. Tissue papers comes in different colors. I picked warmer shades for my flowers Hope you have fun making them too.       

Paper Flower 2

 Hello dear readers ...as I said in my previous post March is going to be the flowery one in my blog. So here comes the another project I did using paper flowers. Its real simple!...and you don't need much supplies for it. I have used construction paper and cardboard to construct it. I made a flower hanger keeping Om as a center. Om is written with golden acrylic paint and later attached to the flower base.Here is the link for variety of paper roses you can make. Hope this will be useful for your creative projects.

i used gunny sack to cover up the cardboard circle

Coffee Filter Flowers

Hello Dear Readers!! Are you feeling the change around you? I certainly do. Spring  has come with its warm air, bright and clear days. I can see the curly new leaves on the trees and flowers started blooming as well. Springs comes with lot of charm and fresh energy. I can't wait to pack my woolens back in the boxes. So keeping the spring theme in my mind, I have decided to make all my March posts, to be flower related. So there will be flower explosion in Deepi's World for sure.

 Today's post is about coffee filter flowers. I have captured the process in pictures. For each flower you will need one coffee filter. I have soaked the six coffee filter in pink colored water ( by adding very little pink watercolor in about half cup water). It will quickly absorb the water then you can spread them on plastic sheet for drying. Once it dried you can clip petal shapes. For center part, I just colored the white paper with a yellow sketch pen and cut a fringed circle. I have used twigs and attached the flowers to it with glue and covered it with embroidery floss. I hope you can see them in pictures. You can use  tissue paper or crepe paper as well. Even drawing paper, just color it & cut the petal shape. Hope you like these pink blossoms!

 

B is for Blue

What a lovely color! that's what came to my mind when I saw this place mat in a local shop. It was the single piece but that didn't stop me. I had  already planned in my mind what  its going to turn into. Initially, I thought I would do some applique work on it, later I thought some felt flower would be nice. After much brain storming, I settled for a quick embroidery and sew on some fancy leaves that my mother send me couple of years back. I am sure she will be happy to see that I have used it finally. Now this little fancy thing sits on my coffee table.