Here are the items I will use to make my key chain:
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| Scrap-a-plooza! |
I had printed out a star shape on paper and cut it out, then had denim, pink and gray sweater scraps. I used washable marker to trace the star on each scrap.
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| I'm not above tracing, no freehand for me! |
I can't draw to save my life, so I had to trace if I wanted my shape to even resemble a star. Plus, a star is an easy shape to cut, no rounded edges or fine detail. Once traced, I then cut them all out. There are two of each because I will be making this double-sided.
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| Fourth of July scraps |
I cut them all out the same size and then determined what order I would stack these in. I really liked how the denim looked on top when I did Sweater Purse 3.0, so I decided, Pink, Cream, Denim. I took my paper star and drew lines about a quarter inch in with a ruler (yeah, I can't even draw a straight line without help) and trimmed it. Then I retraced the cream stars and trimmed and repeated again another quarter inch in and trimmed the denim stars.
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| Second round of tracing |
I totally have Lucky Star from Madonna in my head right now. I heard she refuses to play her old stuff at concerts, is this true? I've never been to one of her concerts, but I had heard a rumor that she would charge the venue extra for her to play songs like Material Girl and Lucky Star. I love those songs!
Anyway, back to the trimming. I trimmed out all the stars so there are a total of six (6) stars. I then stacked them to ensure that was what I wanted.
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| Star stacked action |
I thought it made sense to sew from top to bottom, so I sewed the denim to the cream then the cream to the pink. I did the sets separate. While I was sewing and thinking that there must be a better way to do this (they were not staying straight for me and so the stars came out a bit skewed), I snacked on one of my favorite snacks: Toffifay.
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| Yummmmm |
Toffifay is described as a caramel cup with a whole hazelnut dropped into, then a chocolate hazelnut filling covers the hazelnut and then it is topped with a drop of chocolate. I love these! Vince's mother eats these and I had never heard of them until she got me addicted to them. I can find them at Walgreen's and Joann's (strangely enough). Joann's sells them in a package of four, while Walgreen's sells them in a package of 15 (often at a buy one, get one free). Try them!!!
Again, I digress! The stars are finally sewn together. Like I mentioned above, they are not aligned as I had imagined and are a bit off.
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| How do you read unaligned stars?? |
I did not like that so much pink was showing; it also made these really large. I trimmed the pink to the cream star.
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| Much better! |
Now that the stars are stacked and trimmed I then put them back-to-back and took needle and thread and hand stitched them together with a whip stitch.
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| The Stars Unite! |
Once the stitching was done, it was time to make this a key chain. In my kit of rivets, it contained some colored ones, rather than just silver or gold. Luckily, there was a red one. Vince did the honors of punching the hole and affixing the red rivet into the star.
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| Riveting Star |
Once the rivet was attached, then I took a key chain and attached it to it.
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| A star is born! |
This was a quick project, but I think that if I were to do it again, I would do it differently. I think by cutting out all of the pieces ahead of time, that left me with little to hold onto while I was sewing them together. I would try cutting out the smaller one first, then sewing that onto the next one, for me it was the cream. Then cutting the cream out based on the lines of the denim. Do the same for the cream on the pink.
When I gave this as a gift, she said, "How did you know I love stars?" Funny, they were an easy shape. :-)
If anyone tries something like this, let me know what worked for you. Thanks!
1 comment:
This is great! All you need to have is a piece of denim, sweater scraps, scissors, and crayons. Voila! A star is born! Hehehe! With these items, you can have your own lucky star key chain!
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