Mikinoos

I upcycled cooler bags for making can holders which I posted last week. This week sewing project, DIY lunch bag, is to use cooler bag material left from last week making can holders. I made a bit big and it can be used as picnic bag, and also this is another cooler bag made with upcycled cooler bag :) 1. Materials; below cutting is included seam allowance 0.25" (0.6cm)      Cooler bag material & floral linen: 2 of 16" x 10" (41cm x 25.5cm)     Top cover cotton:  2 of 16" x 10" (41cm x 25.5cm)     Bag handles floral linen: 2 of 14" x 3" ( 35.5cm x 8cm)     Bias: 33" x 3" (  84cm x 7cm)     Strings: 2 of 40" (100cm) I mistakenly cut top covers fabric short to 16" x 6" (41cm x 15.5cm), which ended up hardly covers top of bag. Luckily it was not that difficult to amend. To extend top covers, I have made another top covers and sew to existing top covers. At first my choice of top cover fabric was light pink with no pattern, an...

I made can holders using cooler bag.  I, sometimes, more honestly often, forget cooler bags when I go to shopping groceries, and I ended up having many grocery cooler bags at home. Because can holders made by kind of wet suit fabric (?) it is flexible for beer bottles and soft drink cans. But the can holders which made by cooler bag materials not flexible like wet suit fabric, so it should be cut in correct size for cans. I thought making can holders would be very easy, but I was so frustrated in making the first one. It took me two days to complete it. For the first one was too small in size for can holder because the size reduced from sewing of a bit thick cooling material.  I've done applique of C.O.K.E to can holder fabric which took me a few hours, oh well the first one has been binned, and I lost for desire to try further on the same day. Next day, next mistakes happened with bottom of can holder. Biasing to the small round bottom turned out ugly, and then next try with ...

Sewing in December is all about Christmas!  made Christmas pincushions (ornaments), easy, so easy! Sew or glue green felt leave and red beads on top of square pincushion, that's it. I spent more time to think how I can express red shiny fruits, you can use red colored Pompom, but I want to add some shiny bits to it, so I came to conclusion to use nail polish. Red nail polish to beads once, and then dry, and 2nd coat and then dry, and finish with top coat. Highly recommend to process this first, because you will need time for beads to be dried.  If you add strings to pincushions, which can be Christmas ornaments to decorate Christmas tree. It can be pincushion for sewing, and also handmade baubles :)  I did not add strings when I made them, silly me, and I just put them between branches of mini Christmas tree.  Hope you all have a very merry Christmas.  For tutorial, please click below video, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube chann...

I made Medi scrub tops for my bestie who is nurse.  I copied pattern from her old scrub top, and it is the pattern only for her, and I shortened length for her as requested. Oh, Christmas medi scrubs I made turned out so cute and well suit for my friend.  I even thought I might make one for myself, before my friend requested me to make total 10 scrubs as she would wear during whole December month! I made up to 7, and I told her no more this year, I will make another 3 for next Christmas! For tutorial, please click below videos; one for copying pattern from scrub top, and the other is for making scrub, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel:  Mikinoos DIY Thank you. Copy pattern from medi scrub top video. DIY Medi Scrub Top video.

I have made a shirts for my dear kitten boy. He is 6 months old and I can see him grow bigger in daily, and I designed the pattern a bit bigger than his actual size, and there's a room to grow for him. then this shirts would last a good few months :) By the way isn't he adorable~ It's N ovember, so I think mustache pattern fabric for M ovember would be a bit fun to make.  Even though he looks like that the young boy worn his daddy shirts, he is still very much sweet for my eyes.  For tutorial, please click below video, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel:  Mikinoos DIY Thank you.

When you have any member of family who uses hand towel and not put it back where it was,  Whenever you need to wipe your hands after washing your hands, or after washing dishes, you can't find any hand towels hang. Which makes crazy! I found my partner did not bother unbutton of hanging towels :) which was great!  No more searching for hand towels, no more frustrated and worried about disappeared hand towels.  I should make more~ For tutorial, please click below video, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel:  Mikinoos DIY Thank you.

 Early last year I went to cruise travel to New Caledonia & Vanuatu, oh, I miss the time we could travel without worrying about Covid-19😷. Hope we can go to travels soon without risk of catching Covid-19. Stay safe everyone.   You did not expect to read about travel for dress making blog😥. I bought a dress from the market in Vanuatu when I was in cruise travel. The dress I bought was so comfy to where as lounge wear and sleep wear. Even my friend wanted to have the dress I made.  Soft rayon used for dress making,  this dress is so good use of recently especially when we need to say home so much time, and you don't need any patterns so why not making it~ For tutorial, please click below video, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel:  Mikinoos DIY Thank you.

Never tired of making pincushions, don't you agree, because pincushions are a small and cute, I think, and so much fun with choosing fabrics, and ribbons :), easy to make, and also it can be a good use of scrap fabrics. Please dig scrap fabrics of yours and try this little two patches. For tutorial, please click below video, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel:  Mikinoos DIY Thank you.

Halloween's on this Saturday (as cat mum I call Caturday)! and I made a Halloween pumpkin beanie for my dear kitty cat. Although expected that my cat would definitely hate wearing the beanie, I could not help! Because cats have very sensitive ears, I tried, made two holes in beanie which my cat ears would not folded and can be freely out through those holes.  He still not much a fan of the beanie I made :(  But soooo soooo CUTE! Happy Halloween everyone and stay safe from Covid 19. For tutorial, please click below video, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel:  Mikinoos DIY Thank you.

My friend bought two tea towels and she liked the patterns on tea towels so much, and she did not wanted to use them as tea towel. So making a linen bag from those two tea towels were decided.  Lookie Lookie the character above 🙃 a dog with pipe cigarette! How unique! With an environmental issue using plastic bags are discouraged, and recommended to use these linen bags. And much prettier and stronger than plastic bags👍 Two different towels used so either way you hold a bag would be so new!!  So easy to make, please click below video for tutorial, hope you enjoy. Weekly videos upload, please subscribe my Youtube channel: Mikinoos DIY Thank you. Youtube tutorial:  https://youtu.be/Ryuf_SBWge8

Whoever has a cat would agree about cat toys, no matter how many you bought cat toys you want to get for your cat more and more!! I bought some, and I made one as well. When I make toys I should have inserted Catnips or bells in, oh well I forgot. This won't be not my last time for me to make cat toys, so I skipped alteration of putting them in, next time, I hope that I remember at least one of them😁 Please click below link for free tutorial on my Youtube channel: Mikinoos DIY Weekly videos uploaded, and would you please like and subscribe, which will be my motivation, thank you.