Trend: Twilight – Craft Gossip

image by Dragonfly Curls

Ok, I admit it, I’m a *huge* Twilight fan! I’ve read all the books multiple times and I’ve seen the movie more times than I’ll admit So I was thrilled to find some Twlight inspired stamps and projects!

The Dragonfly Curls shop on Etsy has the most gorgeous hand carved stamps inspired by Twilight.

Artful Inkables also has a wonderful Twilight inspired stamp set call Into the Moonlight , along with some cool pewter Twilight inspired charms.

image by Artful Inkables

I also wanted to share a link to this cool Twilight mini album made by Trace Gewarsky.

image by Trace Geworsky

And I LOVE this adorable card by Beth Crofton, she turned a cute stamp from The Greeting Farm into Edward. She’s part of a very cool website challenge designed all around Twilight called Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, check out the blog for links to all their creations and challenges, very fun stuff!

image by Beth Crofton

What a wonderful way to show your fandom by stamping your book marks, cards or how about party invites for a Twilight theme party?

-Heather

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I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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