Tutorial: Turning a Care Bear Into a Backpack~!

Hello everyone! In my last thrift store haul post, I showed you all a big Wish Bear that I got! A day or so after having it sit on my bed with the rest of my stuffed animals, I realized that it was the perfect size to turn into a backpack! I have a tutorial of exactly how to do that here for you~

Here are the supplies~

☆ A Large Care Bear (or any stuffed animal~)

☆ Fabric (for the inside of the bag and straps)

☆ Scissors

☆ Needle & Thread (There's a lot of hand sewing ;^;)

☆ Zipper (so the bag can close)

And some things I forgot to show here are~

☆ Pins

☆ Iron

Now that all of the supplies are gathered, lets begin!

First, use the zipper to approximate where you'll cut the openging and mark it with pins, or draw a dashed line with a fabric market or pen or something like that.

Now it's time to cut that opening, and take out a bit of the stuffing. If you don't remove the stuffing, then nothing will be able to fit in your bag! Be careful to remember this step.

Next, cut a square or rectangle of fabric. This is going to be the "bag" part. Make sure it's wide enough to fit into the opening that you cut before you sew up 3 of the sides.

Note: When you sew this, make sure that the right sides of the fabric are facing each other!

After you have that done, stuff the pouch of fabric inside of the opening in the bear.

Then pin the edges in place.

Now comes the time-consuming part! You should probably switch a movie on or something, because you'll be sewing by hand for a while ;~; (can you tell I really hate sewing by hand? xD?)

Sew the pouch into the opening

And then pin and sew the zipper into the opening (this by hand too ;~;)

Make sure the zipper can close. Now you're almost done! Next you just have to make and attach the straps. Also the hand sewing ends here for a while ;u;!

Cut two long strips of fabric, fold them in half (wrong side of fabric showing) and sew the edges together. Then turn them inside out (this takes a good while too ;~;) and iron them to get this~

Pin the straps on, and try the backpack on to see how it sits on you. Make any adjustments and as soon as you're satisfied sew them on.

had to hand sew this as well ;^; I think I'll go back and super glue the straps in place, I don't trust the way I sewed it xD.

But now it's done! Here are some more pictures~

This is what it looks like open ;u;

And there it is worn!

I made the pouch deep enough to hold a lot of items. I can fit my phone, iPod, wallet, mirror, notepad, pencil, and nail file in with quite a bit of room left! Though the hand sewing was tedious ( I'm sure it's obvious how much I dislike it by now xD!) and the actual opening looks ~odd~, It definitely works as a super cute backpack! I can't wait to wear it around ;u;.

What do you guys think? Will you be turning your stuffed animals into all sorts of bags? I would love to see if you do!

Thanks for looking~!

More sewing! Another Spank! inspired shirt ~

Hello everyone~! Happy Father's Day!

The day yesterday before I managed to get my hands on more sewing machine needles (did I mention that I broke all of mine xD?) so last night I decided to actually get sewing again! Earlier in my summer goals post, I mentioned how much I wanted to make a shirt similar to this spank! one~

So last night I did just that!

I think it took me around five hours to make, and I ended up frustrating myself a lot (I keep sewing at night for some reason even though I know I won't make as many dumb mistakes if I sew while I'm still 100% awake xD) but I really like the way it came out! I took that picture before I ironed it though (for some reason ;~;) so it's looks a bit better now.

And here it is worn!

This is only the third top that I've made for myself, the other two being cutsews so so they stretch and are easier to fit xD. I used to be downright scared of wasting fabric on making shirts, so the fact that lately I've been able to make them (though not as well or easily as I would have liked to) really makes me feel like I'm improving!

So what do you guys think? Do you like it?

Thanks for looking ☆ミ!

I've been sewing lately! ;u;!

Hello everyone! I wanted to make a quick post to show you guys what I've been up to!

Remember these fabrics? I was so excited to start playing around with them x3! I also have really been going salopette crazy lately~ so my first instinct was to make one of them! Here's how it turned out~

It was surprisingly easy to make! first, go about making normal bloomers (there are tutorials over on EGL if you need to know how!) but instead of elastic at the bottoms and top, gather them to a waist band/ thigh bands (lol idk;;). After you have those made, cut a rectangle of fabric and two long strips for the top and sleeves, and decorate however you want ;u;. then you just attach them! easy easy :D!

Anyways ,here it is worn~

blurry yuck x~x sorry!

Secondly, I really wanted to use that polka dot fabric for clothes. I was thinking about making bloomers or pumpkin pants out of them at first, but then I decided I wanted a fitted mini skirt. Unfortunately, I realized I was out of black thread only after I had it cut out, so you can see most of my stitching errors x~x (it really bothers me;;;)

Worn~

What do you guys think? :D?

thanks for taking a look~☆ミ

Crafting post~ New Apron!

Hi, everyone! I wanted to share the apron I completed recently~

(sorry about the weird lighting in the photo;;)

I learned that we would be doing pottery in my art class last week, and even though I'm looking forward to it, I kept thinking how devastated I would be to stain my clothes with dark clay ;^;. I decided that I would need an apron to get myself through the class, so last night I finally finished one I started last year xD.

Last year I made the skirt part of the apron, and yesterday I made the heart top part~! It was a lot easier than I thought it would be to make. I'm sure if I wanted to make one to wear as clothing, it would turn out a lot cuter, but I didn't focus too much on making it perfect since I would only be using it for art class or at home.

How do you guys like it~? Ever made a lolita-style apron?

Some crafting and an outfit shot!

You guys don't know this yet (at least I don't think so xD), but I ♥love♥ fairy kei! I don't have too many cute fairy kei things, but when get inspired to use up my small fabric stash, thats the first thing I think about! My goal is to be able to wear fairy kei every day that I'm not wearing lolita.

I also want to get into more fairy-lolita too, its just too much cute~!

Last night, I decided to make something, and ended up cutting up a bloomer patten from a second-hand dress I had deconstruction for its cute pink striped fabric ;3;

I ended up sewing the two heart patches last night too (by hand omg D: Sewing lace on by hand at 1:00 AM x-x) , and then sewed the rest together this morning.

They don't fit as well as I had originally hoped, but they're definably usable and totally cute! I want to pair them with mint tights and a long 80s sweatshirt and white leg-warmers and a loooong multicolored scarf xD I have none of that though, so this was the "omgnewbloomerslets trythemonnn~" coordinate I came up with :3

Simple rundown: All tops offbrand, all bottoms handmade, accessories offbrand, handmade, and mintymix.

So do you guys ever sew fun stuff? What have you created~? :D?

Thank you for looking! (^-^)/ ♥