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- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable DIY Fabric Party Flags's weekly stats:
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst entered DIY Fabric Party Flags in the Sew Fast Speed Challenge contest
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable Scandinavian Christmas Gnomes From Socks
Hi Debinagel,I think you can download a PDF of the instructions (on the bottom of the instructable) and print that?Sandra
View Instructable »Hi mrnkkkhojo!Thanks for your comment! I live in the Netherlands and I buy the fake fur in a local shop that sells fabric and other sewing and crafting supplies. As for gluing the cone to the body, see the attached image. The gluing is just to make the shape more a 'unity' instead of the top part (above the rope/rubber band) to be loose and floppy. The glue is applied approximately at the locations indicated in blue in the attached image. I hope this helps?Good luck if you're making any and I'm curious to see pictures of them :). Sandra
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Bellacricket's instructable Cement GnomeView Instructable »
Wow, they are so cute! Very nice idea!
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Maker Design Lab's instructable Wooden Silhouette Test Tube VasesView Instructable »
Super nice! They look so stylish, I would definitely want to have these for my home.
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Hey Jen, Sorry for my late reply. I didn't really count the hours I put in the dress, but I started in February making the pattern and the mock-up dress. My wedding was in November and I finished the dress about one or two weeks before the wedding. I worked on the dress mainly in the weekends, especially in the beginning, and later on also in the evenings, but definitely not every day. Closer to the wedding I had some time off from work and I could also spend some time on the dress during weekdays, but still I was not working on it every single day. And I never had to rush or stress out to finish the dress in time. Please let me know if you decide to make your own wedding dress, I would be very curious to see the result :). Good luck with your decision and the sewing if you decide to do i…
see more » - Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable Scandinavian Christmas Gnomes From Socks
Wow! Awesome! You did a really good job, I love them! It's giving me a big smile, seeing all of your pictures :).
View Instructable »And did you make them this year?
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on dcolemans's instructable Pirate Ship Tree HouseView Instructable »
Wow, this is very awesome! Two awesome things combined in one: a treehouse AND a pirate ship! Very well done!
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Hey! The other day I found this video, which might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN3Ic612O3A
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Hey, thank you so much! Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! You must be so excited :). For the yoke part on my dress I followed the Vogue pattern V1495. I used the pattern pieces for the yoke, but needed to alter them quite a bit to make them a good fit for me. Attaching the yoke to the dress was actually the most difficult part for me, probably because of my lack of sewing experience, but an experienced seamstress told me that this is indeed a tricky part in making a dress.I attached the yoke IN BETWEEN the lining layer and the the satin layer (see attached images of steps of the pattern) and I'm not sure if that is what you want to do with your dress, since it would include taking apart the top seam of your dress. Placing the yoke in between made it really difficult, because the t…
see more » - Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Penolopy Bulnick's instructable Shamrock Frappuccino RecipeView Instructable »
Hi Penelopy, this frappuccino looks delicious and we're ready to try it out! Do you really need 1.5-2 tbsp of the matcha green tea powder? Not teaspoons? Cause the directions on the can we bought says you only need 0.5-1 tsp per cup of boiled water (if you're making a hot tea out of it)...
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's entry I Made My Own Wedding Dress! is a winner in the Epilog Challenge 9 contest
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Thank you so much! How great that you also sewed your own dress, I'm sure you're very proud of the result :).
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's entry I Made My Own Wedding Dress! is a finalist in the Epilog Challenge 9 contest
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Penolopy Bulnick's instructable Strawberry Shortcake Frappuccino RecipeView Instructable »
It was great! I used raspberries, since we had a bag of frozen ones lying around in the freezer, haha. I really get the shortcake taste from the hazelnut syrup. Actually this was a triple 'I Made It', since I also made your microwave simple syrup and the raspberry whipped cream.
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst made the instructable Strawberry Shortcake Frappuccino RecipeView Instructable »
Delicious! Made it with raspberry instead of strawberries.
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Thank you! :)
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on MadeByBarb's instructable Lovely Leaf-Printed Art QuiltView Instructable »
Wow, very creative and it turned out very beautiful! I would definitely use this on the couch, haha! Nice and warm, but also very decorative. Could be my next project :). I'm not sure if I would do the eco-printing myself or use different types of fabric with a print that looks natural though.. Something to think about!
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Thank you! :)
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst entered I Made My Own Wedding Dress! in the Epilog Challenge 9 contest
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Thank you! I'm glad that the Instructable is helpful.
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Bedankt! :D
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on momoluv's instructable DIY Sewn Book SleeveView Instructable »
Very good idea! And nice fabric you used..
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- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!
Thanks :)
Thank you! :) The total cost of the dress was about 750 euro (~900 dollar) in materials, of which the lace (3 meters * 90 euro per meter) and satin (7 meters * 40 euro per meter) fabrics were the most expensive.. But also all the small things (zipper, buttons, thread, ....) add up.
View Instructable »Thank you so much for your kind words! :)Also thank you for the suggestions. Indeed, it would have been better to take into account the grain direction before draping. A friend of my mother's pointed this out to me as well when my mom showed her some of my pictures. And a light-colored muslin would have probably been better to, since now I had to use a very thick permanent marker to mark the alterations I had to make on the mock-up. But this was a very cheap fabric that I found on the market (only 1 euro per meter), so that's why I bought it for this purpose.
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Dankjewel :)
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!View Instructable »
Thank you! :) I didn't have much sewing experience before I started, I only had determination and perserverence, haha! So if you love to sew I think you'd be able to do something like this as well :).
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!
Thank you for your nice comment and the congrats! We had a beautiful day �.
Thank you! :)
Thank you so much! It was quite comfortable, since it was made to exactly fit my body. Also, because I let the boning end above the hips, I was able to sit and move. However, I was only able to sit very straight and I could't bend over to put on my own shoes, but that is the case for every dress with boning, as I noticed when I was trying on dresses at a store earlier. Furthermore, in the morning my mother and mother in law tied the corset lacing pretty tight, which was good for the pictures of course, haha! But at the end of the day, during dinner I got some difficulty breathing and I had them loosen the lacing a bit. But even after wearing it for a full day the dress hurt nowhere and I had no marks or whatsoever on my body from the dress. So generally quite comfortable I would say ;)
View Instructable »Thank you so much for both the nice comment and the congrats! :)
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on OLGATERN's instructable Supersoft Newborn Sleeping BagView Instructable »
That is so cute! I love the fabric!
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable I Made My Own Wedding Dress!
Thank you so much! :D
Thank you! I did know in advance it would be a lot of work and it didn't stop me, haha! Only all the hand sewing of the lace took a lot more time than I expected, but it was also kind of a relaxing job to do. My original planning was to finish the dress a month before the wedding, but in the end I finished it two weeks before the wedding. So a little behind, but still no last stressful nights of sewing right before the wedding, haha.
View Instructable »Thank you so much!
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst entered I Made My Own Wedding Dress! in the Sew Warm Contest 2018 contest
- Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst commented on Sandra van de Looij - Kleinendorst's instructable Scandinavian Christmas Gnomes From SocksView Instructable »
Awesome! The red pencil is a good idea! I like the red/green Christmas sock. Originally I wanted to go with these traditionally colored Christmas socks, but I couldn't find them in my town in the Netherlands. But in the end I like all the other colors very well as well.
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