DIY Fresh Flower Necklace Tutorial

I recently got the opportunity to make anythjng in one of my floral classes and I was pumped!!

I decided to make this necklace and wear it the following day (it's a night class)

And I lived it! And so did many people I encountered that day..

Annnnd, since I've abandoned my blog lately (sorry, classes, finals and wedding planning!), I thought a tutorial for this would be a great way to get back and share something I'm passionate about.

I started with  long piece of (14 gauge?) wire, made a "moon" shape (as seen in the picture) and used that as an armature for the necklace. 

I added leaves on the "back" side of the necklace so there would be a base (I used cold glue to attach them, as seen in the picture above). This is what it looked like from the back: 

I made sure to have a loop on one of the "moon" ends, and a hook on the other end of the wire, like so:

I laid the necklace with the shiny side of the leaves facing down (that would be the part against my skin so the wire wouldn't scratch), place the flowers where I wanted them to be and then I glued them with some more cold glue!

I added some pearls and was done!

I paired it with a white lace dress my brother and his fiancée gave me for Christmas 

A matching belt

And the shoes I recovered (with floral print) and that u wore the day Andrew proposed!

I hoped you liked the tutorial :)

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Thanks!

White Sweater Refashion. Add length to a sweater or shirt

Hello everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful day :)

Today, I wanted to share a little refashion tutorial that could come in handy when you have a shirt or sweater that you like, but happens to be too short.

See, I had this delicate white sweater perfect for winter (it has little snowflakes embroidered all over)

But it fit me kind of awkward and it was too short.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a friend wearing a baggy sweater with 3 layers of chiffon attached to the bottom; I thought it looked so delicate. It also made her look like she had tons of layers on, so I decided to take that idea and add some length to my awkward sweater..

For this refashion you will need about 1/4 of a yard of chiffon (you could also use lace for one of the layers to add even more texture!).

I started by cutting the chiffon in half the long way (I actually cut a small slip, and then tear the sides appart.. this helped give it a fraying look and kept the strips even)

I placed one of the strips on top of the other like so:

And then I folded them in half leaving about an each of space in between to get those layers.

Pin in place

All the way around the strip

I made sure that my end were even

And then I sewed about 1/8" from the folded edge (making sure I was sewing through all the layers) to keep them together

The last step I didn't get a picture of, but I basically just pinned the strip in place (at the bottom of the sweater) and sewed with a zig-zag stitch. I didn't know how much of the strip I would use because I knew the sweater would expand as I started sewing. So I decided to start sewing on one of the side seams, leving about 1/4" of the strip unattached, so that at the end, I could attach both edges and then cut the excess.

And this is what the finished product looks like!

 

I love it!!!

God bless, Aranza