I'm embarrassed to see the date of my last post. Truly I am. My excuse is that it is baseball season here in Ohio (not that the weather has cooperated). I have three boys, they all play, and I have anywhere from 6 to 12 "baseball viewing opportunities" each and every week. Add to that 2 new perennial beds, 10 yards of Sweet Peat to spread, and you have my life these last 8 weeks.
My Vitamin D is in ample supply with all these outdoor pursuits but I have still been working a bit indoors. These are tape measures that are embellished using recycled wool and vintage buttons. The petals are hand-cut and then inserted using a proddy tool normally relegated to rug hooking. I love Craft Crossover. It's one of the reasons I am constantly trying new things. You never know when you'll discover some incredibly useful technique.
I'm using these as teacher gifts this year. The tape measures are the round ones with the push button to retract the tape. I find them for $1 each at Hobby Lobby. I cut 4-inch circles of two different wools, make a sandwich, and stitch it up using the zipper foot. Then I take a scrap and cover the end tab of the tape. Finally, I sew on the vintage button and proddy the petals, making sure the push button is on the plain side of the work. Otherwise the button and flower would block the only means of retracting the tape.
I hope you enjoy. Happy spring!
These are so adorable and would make great door prizes for our next hook-in. Would it be okay for me to try and make some using your instructions? And just to clarify - do you pull the proddy petal right through the wool that covers the tape measure?
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome to use this design for your own use. Just no selling my designs, please.
ReplyDeleteThe proddy petal goes through both layers of the wool covering the tape measure. That makes it nice and tight.
Good luck with your hook-in!