Challenge #18 | Pink, Orange & Yellow

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This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is a color challenge--Pink, Orange & Yellow. I took this opportunity to use some of the yummy new ribbons that Ali and Tony sent us and do a little ribbon weaving to create a "fabric" to make into a amulet bag. The beaded fringe is also created with Crafty Ribbons beads! I love how it turned out! Great for tucking away little treasures and meditations...perfect for a mini album to journal secrets in--or just to keep up with your list of things to do! Thank you for looking!

For this bag you need:

Crafty Ribbons in a variety of colors/widths

Crafty Ribbons beads

Light Fusible interfacing

double stick tape to hold ribbons in place while weaving

sewing machine or needle and thread

glue to hold the beads into place

The prize this week:

Pink, Orange & Yellow

This challenge will run from 8.30am 26th Apr until 6pm 9th May ......

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A Cinco de Mayo Ruffle

A letter came home today with Sam's backpack saying that she needed to wear a skirt to perform a dance for Cinco De Mayo. Sam really wanted a traditional Spanish Folk Dance outfit but her teacher and I convinced her that a shorter skirt with a ruffle perhaps would be perfect as she needed to be able to shuffle her feet for the dance.

I went to my stash of fabric from my mother-in-law's quilting days and found this beautiful colorful striped piece. We decided to add it to Sam's denim skort and make a new Cinco de Mayo ruffle skirt!

fabric and skirt before.



I cut strips of fabric about 4 inches wide and then attached them end to end to each other so I would have  a long enough strip to ruffle. Next I did 2 running stitches on about 10 stitches per inch to have strings to pull up to make a ruffle.

adding straight stitching to make a ruffle

 Once pulled, I placed the ruffle on the skirt, insured I had enough to have a full ruffle all the way around the edge and stitched it in place.

fabric gathered and ruffled

 After successfully stitching all the way around the skirt to add the ruffle, I folded over the bottom hem and stitched,

ruffle added to skirt and now being hemmed

I really love the look of the completed ruffle on the skirt! 

finished ruffle

My little amiga does too! She and I wish you a very happy Cinco de Mayo!

One happy amiga ready to dance with her amigos!

Gracias amigos!

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