Monthly Archives: September 2011

Next Fabric Flower Projects

Next Fabric Flower Projects

The past weekend, I’ve been conceptualizing 2 new fabric flower tutorials that will be added in the rose collection. They are both in cabochon styles which are great in applying on flat surfaced materials.    Here’s what I came up with after a weekend of trying to manipulate fabrics: le I’m still editing the patternContinue Reading

New Release: Mayumi Rose Fabric Flower Tutorial

New Release: Mayumi Rose Fabric Flower Tutorial

My Mayumi Rose Fabric Flower Tutorial is finally available! I hope you’ll like this no sew tutorial. I am really thankful to my big sister, Ate Ting for helping me edit the text to make my English more palatable.   You can get my new tutorial from the link below: http://www.jewelboxballerina.com/mayumi-rose-fabric-flower-tutorial-by-jewel-box-ballerina Love, love,love, ElizaContinue Reading

Mayumi Rose Fabric Flower Tutorial

Mayumi Rose Fabric Flower Tutorial

  Skill Level:  Easy Type of Flower: Mayumi Rose Materials to prepare (Not included in this listing):  fabric scraps, hot glue, beads, felt patch, 22 gauge copper wires, floral tape Instructional Pages:  27 Instructional Images: 60   Here are great ideas where to use these fabric flowers: Wedding Bouquets Wedding Sash Baby Headbands Brooch /Continue Reading

My New Toy

My New Toy

I used to have a love-hate relationship with sewing back in middle school and highschool.  We always have a compulsory Home Economics class and I dreaded every minute I spent in that large damp room in my school.  We were taught to cook and sew.  Half of the class will go cooking while the nextContinue Reading

The Joy of Giving with Fabric Flowers

The Joy of Giving with Fabric Flowers

As of now, I am already 27 and will be 28 in a few months. At this time, my friends and peers already started growing lovely families of their own.  By default, I get to be Tita Elay (Aunt Elay) to their little kids.  I don’t mind being called “tita”. I actually love being calledContinue Reading

In the Works: A Fabric Flower Cascading Bouquet Tutorial

I have to be honest. I come up with design ideas a lot faster than speaking in English…or Filipino.   When I get an idea, I’ll work on it tirelessly and take pictures of it.  Just when I finish taking pictures, another idea would come up, so I am off to making that particular designContinue Reading

My Fabric Flower Workshop

My Fabric Flower Workshop

After months of collecting supplies for creating my fabric flower tutorials and being really really busy with my family, I realized that our second floor is already  a candidate for Clean House! It was as if a hoarder has been living in our second floor.  It’s full of fabrics, flowers, books, and my dad’s oldContinue Reading

Fabric Flower Tutorial Preview: Mayumi Rose

It’s obvious that I can’t get enough of roses! More than half of my fabric flower tutorials were inspired by the magnificently stunning rose. I can’t help it that they are so pretty and they have given me so much joy and inspiration.  And now, I am making another fabric rose tutorial.  It was inspiredContinue Reading

Fabric Flowers for my Littlest Niece

Fabric Flowers for my Littlest Niece

Yesterday, I finished 2 fabric flowers as a present for my little niece in Maryland. I made two flower clippies since headbands make the back of her ears ache. I did not put any bead embellishment in the flower center since the last time, my little niece stuck a little pearl in her ear. MyContinue Reading