deena neimat :: i design stuff

I came across this great illustrator tutorial.. easy to follow and teaches a ton of useful techniques.
Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

Posted by deena at 11:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I made this heart mobile for cyra's room.. here's how i did it.
You'll need an embroidery hoop (I used one that was 7"), embroidery floss, scrap fabrics, felt, ribbon, pinking shears, filler and glue gun.

1) cut out your hearts using felt and scrap fabrics. You can choose to do them different sizes or all the same. I picked contrasting colors for each side.
2) use the floss to stitch around the border of the two panels of hearts.. before you are almost done stitching around the exterior of the heart, use the filler to lightly stuff the heart then, completely stitch the sides closed.
3) cut your ribbon the desired length.. and stitch to each individual heart.
4) once you are done with each carefully glue the other end of the ribbon around the inner circle of the embroidery hoop.
5) now you'll need to attach three more strands of ribbon to hang the mobile from.. try to place them equally around the hoop and knot them together.
6) when you are done gluing all the strands, you're ready to attach the outer edge of the hoop and tighten.

Posted by deena at 11:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I found this great collection of links via thelongthread.com..

(image from thelongthread)

Posted by deena at 08:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)