Giveaway Winners – November 2009

Congratulations to

1. Stacy Couvillion
2. Stacy Vibert Palmer
3. Marleen Coleman

These are the 3 lucky winners of the November 2009 Giveaway, each of them walks away with a Kanzashi Christmas Tree I made. The prizes will be sent out as soon as I get the postal address. For those who didn’t win, please don’t be disappointed, look out for my next month’s giveaway, I will announce once my craft is done

IMPORTANT : Winners – please reply my email with your correspondence address by 30 November, otherwise, I will pick another winner.

(I blurred the winner’s email address just to protect her privacy)

Thank you for all your participating and leaving sweet comments here!!!

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Giveaway (Nov): Kanzashi Christmas Tree {CLOSED}

Update: this giveaway is closed, but you can get the tutorial on how to make it, here.

November’s giveaway lucky draw is here! The prize…. One-of-a-kind Christmas Tree. I have adapted the “Kanzashi” method to make it, which is another type of folding fabric.

This time not only 1, not only 2 but 3 prizes to be won!!! Which means there will be 3 lucky winners and each one will own one of these 3 miniature Kanzashi Christmas Tree (21cm height x 12 cm width).

Each of these trees were made from more than 200  Kanzashi petals, carefully crafted with passion and patient. Each of them took more than 25 working hours to make.

I hope you are going to love them as much as I do. Win it for this Christmas!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! ….

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Sewing Tutorial: Sew A Crinoline

Crinoline or petticoat is easy to make, really!!! Well, at least it is so much more easier to make compared to the queen gown below.

Crinoline when worn under a skirt, makes it look domed and inflated, especially for gown of special occasion. You can get crinoline easily in some countries but they normally came in white or black. Now, you can make it yourself, if you need a specific color to match your beautiful gown.

Crinoline mainly came in 2 types, hoop or full fabric/tulle. The one I am making is hoop with tulle, so it is a mixture of both. The reason behind this combination is that I want the crinoline look soft yet is able to hold the skirt of the gown in a good shape, yet easy to stow away when not in use. If you look closely at hoop crinoline being worn, you will see the “skeleton” of the hoop if the gown was made of soft and thin fabric. Full fabric/tulle is a good choice but it would be difficult when comes to storage as it is very bulky and isn’t like the hoop type where we can simply take out the resilient plastic strip of the “bone”.

See, the gown is happy and smiling after being given a “lift” by the crinoline! ….

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Sewing Project: Queen Gown

Finally, the long waited “Queen” gown I made for my daughter is published here!!!! With details and photographs, including those taken during the performance

A big thank you to all of you who encouraged me to sew it instead of buying it off-the-shelf. I never thought that I could finish it on time when I was given only 7 days before she wears it for the dress rehearsal and 11 days for the performance. I thought of getting one off-the shelf and embellishing it but I knew I wouldn’t be satisfied with the result. So……

Every time I walk into my craft room and see the gown hanging there, I’d think “I made this?” It is just like a dream that I spent 7 late nights and early mornings (I have a day job, so I can only sew it at night) to get it finished, with no pattern to follow!!!! Even my daughter couldn’t believe that it was made by her mum as I didn’t let her see the gown until I almost finish it. By the way, kids are not allowed to enter my craft room, with pins and needles every where, it is a dangerous playground!!!

The performance just ended last Friday and the gown is a great keepsake especially for my daughter. Though the gown just had been on stage for a few minutes for the performance, that’s good enough to surprise the audiences. I received some sweet compliments from other parents, most of them don’t believed it when I said “I sewed it”, anyway I may not look like a tailor or a fashion designer, but I definitely am a hobby craftswomen. ….

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Pom Pom Tutorial – Shaun The Sheep

Finally, Shaun The Sheep arrives in Craft Passion….. I know some of you have been waiting to see this. Sorry to keep you waiting, I have some good excuses for postponing of this tutorial:

1. Blame it to the bad weather here, it was raining almost everyday (monsoon is coming) and I can’t take outdoor photos of Shaun and Shirley, they are meant to be outdoors, right? [Browse the photos by using the Next button, I have taken lots of funny photos of  Shaun, enjoy!]

2. I have a tough task… I was rushing for my daughter’s stage drama costume. She took up a role as a Queen and I was informed that I need to prepare for her own costume as the school can’t find one that fits her. I only had 1 week. Luckily I completed it just in time after burning a few late-nights in my craft room, phew….

I totally fell in love to this funny looking black face sheep last year when it was shown in the Disney Playhouse Channel which my daughter loves to watch. Shaun is a curious but resourceful sheep among the flock of its kind, it is funny and adventurous and often a trouble maker.

Back to the tutorial, this is an advanced level in pom pom making. If you have been following and trying my method of this, this, this, this and this, you should be able to do this. ….

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