Things don't always work out.
Months ago,
Minerva Crafts was looking for someone to make innovative use of their
Olfa Compass Cutter. As I was preparing for the
craft fair, I thought up a whole bunch of circle cutter crafty stuff to do and sent them a mail saying it would be really cool to make more
fabric buttons, they loved the idea and sent me one to try out.
I'm really sad to say that it's the wrong tool for cutting tiny fabric circles. Fabric is way too slippery for a straight blade and whilst I was struggling to make perfect circles, I was thinking somebody needs to invent a rotary circle cutter. It turns out that
Olfa makes one.
I reported to the good people of
Minerva Crafts telling them it was the wrong tool for the task and asked if I could pass it along to one of my reader who does paper craft which they have agreed to do.
So here is my first sponsored giveaway, leave a comment below before May 9th. I ship anywhere.
In the meantime, I thought you would like to see one of the things I made with the fabric circles. I didn't invent this, the original tutorial is
here, but I improved upon it by securing the ring base to the pincushion which kept falling off in my original make.
Have fun making them!
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Parfois, ça ne marche pas.
Malheureusement, le tissu ça bouge trop pour la lame droite et pendant que j'essayais de faire de parfait petits cercles de tissu, je me disais qu'on avait besoin d'inventer un cutter compas au couteau rotatif, mais
ça existe déjà .
Quand j'ai dit au gentils gens de chez
Minerva Crafts que ça n'allait pas, j'ai demandé si je pouvais le donner à une de mes lectrices qui fait des créations en papier, ils ont dit oui.
Voici donc mon tout premier cadeau sponsorisé. Laissez un commentaire avant le 9 mai, c'est ouvert à tous.
Je voulais quand mĂŞme vous montrer au moins une chose que j'ai fait avec des cercles de tissu. Ce n'est pas mon invention, le tutoriel original est
ici, mais je l'ai amélioré en cousant la base au coussin, la colle seule n'était pas suffisante et le coussin tombait tout le temps.
Amusez-vous bien!