Kippah Fevah- DIY Yarmulke East LA Style

Passover is racing towards us and I need 10 awesome kippahs (yarmulke) in time for Seder on Tuesday. In honor of my roommate moving to East LA, I decided to include the flavors of our zip code with mole brisket, matzo meal tilapia, and chipotle cauliflower tortilla. With all that flavor we need spicy kippahs. Mom bought me some killer Guatemalan style fabric downtown, only kicker is that it wants to fray so bad. To combat this I spray glued cotton to the back. 

Attempt #1- Four pie pieces.

Ouch this looked dumb. Square and warped. 

Attempt #2- I tried cutting a Pac Man shape. Weird and flat. So I add a few darts. Better but still not great. 

Attempt #3- (more like 5 but let's be brief) I stitched two curves. 

Yeeeeah!! This was it. Trim the seams. 

Ok all that success was exhausting. We need a Piggie Break!!. Also known as, photos of ridic sleeping chihuahuas. 

Phew I can work again. I zigzaged the edges to keep it from fraying. Then turned up the edge. 

I flipped it over and and cheered. 9 more to go! 

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Crafty Cinema- Downton Abbey

There's something I truly love about crafting while catching up on my Netflix. This week I decided to try making a steampunk inspired cuff and for the "soundtrack," if you will, Downton Abbey. I've become terribly behind on all the doings and let me just say this season, Season 3, has been a real tear jerker. So today I settled in for a bit of leather, lace, lords and ladies. 

First I measured the leather out for a nice overlap and then sewed my lace edging on both sides and the top edge. With a few screw backed gold studs added for some edge and tiny teeth studs for the stitching border. As for closure, I employed screw backed posts. 

Tools: leather punch, needle nose pliers, sewing maching, and scissors

Materials: 12" long by 1.5" wide leather, 26.5" lace, two screw posts, 

5 screw studs, and 16 tiny square studs

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Wellie Hack: DIY lace up boots.

Restyle a pair of rubber wellies for large calves, or just to spruce up a pair to wear around town. 

Start with a pair of wellies/rain boots to restyle. 

Measure 4" or what ever length of lace up you'd like. Then cut with sharp scissors. Measure where you'd like the grommets, metal fixtures for laces, and mark the placement on a strip of scotch tape. You can purchase a grommet kit at a craft store or large grommets are at hardware stores. 

Punch the holes out with a craft punch, I punched through the lining on the top as well to keep it folded down. 

Using the grommet kit place the fixture through the hole and set on a hard table surface or cutting board, careful not to place on a nice dining table or tears may follow this project. Place the grommet setting post on back side of grommet and lightly hammer. The post will curl the grommet over the rubber and voila! 

After you have hammered all grommets measure your laces to about 36" and laces through.

You are now set with a cute pair of side laced boots!

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