Refashion Friday: Flip Flops

How do you get cute summer sandals for $1? You hit the $1 flip flop sale at Old Navy and refashion them! I cut the plastic straps off my flip flops and then made my own knit fabric straps. I love them! My pattern needs a little tweaking, but I liked how they turned out for my first pair.

I want to make a tutorial for these, but it's kind of hard to make a pattern and take pictures for a tutorial at the same time so you'll have to wait until I make another pair. :)

I put sequins on mine, but there are lots of possibilities for other accents like flowers or ruffles. The sequins were from the shirt that I cut up to make these flip flops.

I've enjoyed doing Refashion Friday posts again! Obviously, I haven't been doing them every week like I intended, but since it's just for fun and de-stashing I guess it doesn't really matter.

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Strawberry Garland Tutorial

I love the taste of strawberries and how they look too, so I enjoy any strawberry related projects. My sister asked me to make a strawberry garland for my niece's first birthday and this is what I came up with.

To make your own you will need:

red and green felt
white fabric paint
white ric rac
hot glue

First, draw a strawberry and a stem for a pattern.

Cut out an equal amount of strawberries and stems. My piece of ric rac was a little longer than 5 feet and I cut out 15 strawberries.

 

Use the white fabric paint and make small dots over the strawberries for "seeds".

Hot glue the leaves onto the strawberries.

Now glue them onto the ric rac, evenly spaced.

This garland is perfect for a party or to give your home a "summer flavor"!

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Refashion Friday: Stars & Stripes Headband Tutorial

Are you looking for something patriotic to wear for the 4th of July? The 4th is only three days away, but if you have some red, white and blue jersey knit fabric scraps you can whip up this headband in a few minutes. I used the fabric from old t-shirts to make mine.

Lets get started!

1. Cut a strip out of white knit fabric 2 in. wide. Measure your head where you would wear a headband. Subtracting 1 1/2 inches, make this the length of your strip.

2. With right sides together stitch the headband closed. I used a half inch seam allowance. Press the seam open.

3. Cut out a 1 3/4 in. by 3 1/4 in. rectangle out of the same white knit.

4. Lay it under the seam of the headband. Kind of scrunch up the headband and wrap the small piece around it.

5. Pin and stitch.

6. Cut out two red stars and two blue stars. Go here to learn how to draw a perfect star.

7. Layer the stars of the same colors and stitch them together.

8. Pin them onto your headband and stitch them in place. Just follow your previous stitches on the stars. Don't worry about getting it perfect; it will still look good.

9. Draw pencil marks from one side at 1/2, 1 and 1 1/2 in. This will be your cutting guide.

10. Cut down the lines. Again, don't worry about getting them perfectly straight since the edges are just going to curl up.

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Enjoy and thanks for reading!