Lace Trim Christmas Tree and New Year's Eve Party Hat

This book is packed full of great ideas for using trim:

Fashion Trims:
Customize and Create Clothes and Accessories

By

Louise Turner

A long-established element of the fashion world, where they are used widely as trimmings, belts, and tie fastenings on shoes, clothes, hats, and adorning wrists, necks, and hair, ribbons have now come even closer to the home wardrobe.

With her natural flair for color and texture, nothing is too daunting or avant garde for Louise Turner when it comes to making fantastic fashion statements through customizing clothes and making all variety of beautiful garments for every season and occasion.

At a glance, the materials and trimmings that will be used to make the fabulous range of clothing and accessories in the book will include: ribbon, silk and satin, braids, bullions, raffia, string, glass, wire, buttons and beads, sequins, wood, feathers, shells, horn bone, faux fur, leather, and mock suede.

Louise Turner is a handbag and textile designer. Her handbags comprise glorious one-off creations and bespoke collections and have attracted much attention. Her work has also been exhibited in Brussels, Paris, and London.

I think one of my personal favorite projects is this:

I can totally see wearing this on New Year's Eve! If you need the full directions grab yourself a copy of Fashion Trims: Customize and Create Clothes and Accessories

I got inspired to make something with trims for Christmas while flipping through Fashion Trims:
Customize and Create Clothes and Accessories

This is what I came up with. A cute little Christmas tree! It was so easy.

I started with a Styrofoam cone and two shades of lace scalloped trim. Holding both trims together and starting from the bottom I wrapped the cone.

I stuck a straight pin at the top to secure the ends.

Can you tell what I used for the trunk? Yup, that's just an old wooden spool of brown thread. I thought it kept with the "sewing supply theme" of this tree.

Now on to day 7 of our:

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Today's question (since I am already thinking about New Years Eve):

7.  What are your crafting resolutions for 2009?

My Answer: Organize, organize, organize! Last year's resolution was to try to make something every day, and I think I do pretty much. But I do find I am not the best at cleaning up yesterday's supplies and getting them put back in the right spot which makes finding them again and having a nice clean work area to start a new project not happen.

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Comments

[Josie]

Make more quilts and make quilts/blankets for charity. Organization is always on the to do list as well.

[BrendaLea]

My crafting resolutions for 2009 include not buying new supplies until I have used up or give to good home at least 1/3 of what I currently have (there just isn't any more space for more stuff. And that includes finishing UFO's...un finished projects!

[kathleen m]

To get more organized!!
to mess it all up again and then reorganize.

[Wil]

Be more productive.

[Lindart]

To use what I have stored away, and to do more altered books! I tend not to use the things I love the most, saving them for . . .what? I don't know! So I resolve to use use use!!! And to do more stamping and use less printed images.

[Janet]

First, keep my art room organized. Second, make more art.

[Jeanne Louise]

Organize! I have craft supplies all over the place. Sticking with one project at a time would help with this. Right now I have two embroidery, four jewelry, a couple sewing, and a scrapbooking project all going on. So maybe instead of organize I should actually say finishing projects!

[wendy]

Make more time for crafting (like so many others) but before that - get my room cleaned up and organized! I can barely move around in my art room right now, and forget about finding anything I need (I had basically a 12x12" space to do my Christmas cards this year - not good!)

[Carrie]

Hmm. Keep organizing. I started. I have a dymo labeler and lots of containers, and I kind of sort things as I do new projects, because I'm looking for something I don't have labeled yet! But I'm pleased with how much I've organized this year and it encourages me that I can keep doing it. I think I've cut back on buying more stuff, but I can't resist a thrift store bargain. Especially fabric right now, I drool over it.

Projects I'd like to finish:
recovering the seats of our old dining room table chairs with some of the fabulous retro upholstery fabric I've been collecting.

make my own altered book with pages done all by ME.

carve more rubber stamps (from erasers) and use in ATC's and ACEO's.