Needlework techniques

Once I wanted to get a bright belt on my pants. I found a suitable piece of fabric (satin) and a fastener for 4 UAH. So that the belt fits tightly in the fastener and does not fall off, a tape was bought for the straps on the backpack for 4 UAH. 1 meter. Take an atlas 1.1 meters long and 8 cm wide, on top we put a tape 1 meter long and 3 cm wide.

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It's always nice to do something with your own hands. And if your friends also like it, it’s doubly pleasant. In addition, such things exist in a single copy, so they can be perfectly used as a gift. To make a wonderful flower vase, we need: - a glass bottle; spray paint; napkin for decor; -PVA glue; threads for decor; - rhinestones for decor; -water; -toothpick; aerosol autolac.

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These days of high technology and continuous automation, manual work is appreciated very, very highly. The pictures embroidered with a cross carry warmth and sincerity. And if you modernize these paintings and bring them some originality, then the creation is generally beyond praise. We are talking about cross-stitch from a photograph or a picture.

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The New Year is approaching, and more and more I want to decorate everything around us with something truly festive and unusual. How to decorate your workplace? Indeed, in most cases, you can’t place something bulky at home in the workplace. In this case, you can make a herringbone of beads with your own hand. It will be a wonderful reminder of the impending holidays.

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Materials that we will need for self-decoration of balls: • Eight plastic balls; • Several napkins for decoupage with the image of animals; • PVA glue; • White acrylic paint; • Acrylic varnish for decoupage; • Dry spangles of different colors, gold liquid glitter; • Satin ribbons 0.5 cm wide; • Brush for decoupage; • Paint bowl and kitchen sponge.

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Beautiful and delicate snowflakes are a great decoration for a New Year's costume or Christmas tree. Making them is not only simple, but also interesting. For work you will need: - beads; - thin fishing line or wire; - scissors. It is worth noting that the younger the child, the larger beads (or even beads) must be used. The choice between fishing line or wire depends solely on what the snowflake is woven for.

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Soon the New Year and we want to create some kind of toy or decoration for our New Year guest - Christmas trees with our own hands. Toys using decoupage technique look very good. Consider a detailed master class with a step-by-step description of the whole process. Materials and tools that we need: • Finished and processed blanks of snowflakes made of plywood; • Christmas napkin for decoupage; • PVA glue; • Acrylic glossy varnish; • Acrylic paint of a golden shade; • White acrylic paint; • A brush for a decoupage and an artificial brush for paint; • Dry and liquid spangles; • Foam sponge; • Two small bowls.

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Materials that we need to create a cover: • Transparent cover for a passport; • Brown paper for pastels; • Scrapbooking paper in light brown tones, a sheet measuring 15 * 15 cm and several small rectangles of arbitrary size; • A picture for scrapbooking with a girl; • Cutting down small brown butterflies; • White rep ribbon with black polka dots; • Double-sided tape; • Acrylic stamp “Passport”; • Two silver metal corners; • Black ink pad; • Additional materials: eraser, pencil, ruler, scissors.

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Making this cute little box is not at all difficult. Due to its unusual shape and original design, the casket will become a wonderful decoration of the interior. You can store any small jewelry in it: rings, earrings, chains. For the manufacture we will need the following materials: 1. Wooden blank box.

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Sewing needles or pins are not very convenient to store in a box. It is better to sew the original pillow in the form of a snail with your own hands and the necessary needles will always be at hand - beautiful and comfortable. In order to make this accessory you will need the following materials: • A soft cloth flap • Batting • A pattern • Threads, a needle, scissors Take a cloth flap from which you will need to sew 12 blanks.

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There will always be a couple of empty plastic bottles in the house, especially in the summer. A minimum of skill, a little perseverance and zeal, a little imagination, improvised materials, a couple of hours of time, a lot of desire and ... a wonderful chest of plastic bottles made with your own hands will please you, and the work done will bring a lot of pleasure.

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Very often come across boxes with which I do not want to part. And they lie until you come up with their application. So this time. Napkins are long over, and throw the box, the hand did not rise. And good. Because it came out of a beautiful New Year-style pencil stand.

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The New Year is approaching - the year of the Horse, and as a gift to myself, I decided to draw a shiny Horse on a T-shirt - a golden hoof. Chalk on the image of the unicorn horse. Ideally, there should be 5 cm margins at the edges - because when the picture is borderless, the image does not look very good. As a contour, I decided to use acrylic gold enamel (I took Maxima, manufacturer Polysan), bought in a building materials store.

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Please your little one with a pretty little thing, and a master class will help you with this! This is not only a toy, but also a handbag (or purse, as you want) for various little things. Here you can wear a scarf, or hide sweets, and you can store hair clips and elastic bands. To sew such a baby bag with your own hands, you will need small scraps of fabric, a zipper, two buttons and an evening of free time.

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Funny and uncomplicated in the execution of crafts based on a cone made of paper, probably familiar to everyone. We will tell you how to make this craft more interesting using the simplest elements of the quilling technique. As the New Year approaches, we will make the Snow Maiden. First a cone is made. We made it large enough to have enough space for decorative elements.

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Sewing a funny cat toy is not difficult. But such a wonderful cat will become one of your baby's favorite toys! Yes, and the cat is not simple, he is a real "gentleman"! And nothing that he has such funny panties. Look at what a chic bouquet he has in his paws and a graceful butterfly. Why not a cutie?

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To knit an octopus toy, you need to take 100 g of yarn of medium thickness of pink color, 50 g of the same quality yarn of violet color, floss thread or simple threads of white and black for eyes, red, bright pink for a smile and hook number 3- four. The body of an octopus. 1 row. We knit a chain of 2 air loops with a pink thread and close it in a ring; we knit a half-column in the first loop.

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Today we will study a detailed master class on making Christmas tree decorations using decoupage technique. What we will need for this: • Two foam hearts; • Two napkins for decoupage: one with New Year's deer, and the second with horses; • White acrylic paint; • Acrylic glossy varnish for decoupage; • PVA glue; • Two bowls; • Brush for decoupage; • Foam sponge; • Spangles liquid and dry; Let's start, pour white acrylic paint in one plate, take a sponge and apply the first layer of paint, first on one side of each heart, and then on the back of the hearts.

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Soon the New Year, and we want to decorate our Christmas tree somehow very beautifully and at the same time, original and unusual. Therefore, today’s master class will come in handy thanks to which we decorate plastic balls using decoupage technique on our own. Materials that we will need: • Two large plastic balls with a diameter of 8-9 cm, it is better to take a silver color so that they do not fade; • Two napkins for decoupage: with New Year's gnomes and Santa Claus; • White acrylic paint; • PVA glue; • Acrylic varnish for decoupage; • Fan-shaped brush; • Glass or ceramic plates; • Kitchen foam sponge; • Spangles for decoration; • Two bamboo sticks.

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New Year is a holiday for everyone, including the main donor of the blessings of Santa Claus! But the trouble, Santa Claus walked in the forest, but lost his mitten! How to hold a staff, because it doesn’t freeze for long! And you need to start by preparing everything you need: • Cardboard • Two wet wipes • Needle • Scissors • Cotton threads are tight • Woolen thread • Means for decorating mittens First we make a blank of cardboard (cardboard should be taken tight) and draw on it a mitten pattern.

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