DECORATED LANTERN

 During Lantern festival we get a lot of eye catchy lanterns here. I got a crafty idea on seeing plain white lantern, So I bought it and gave it a blue paint............ I had some remaining plastic flowers which I used for making a craft item long before which was staying unused in my craft box .......... I thought of using it also  in this work.............. I cut the waste CD in diamond  shape which resemble like tiny diamond  mirror which we usually get from craft shops during our childhood days........... Then started to work in steps ..............First I colored the Lantern with blue  and pasted the flowers and CD with glue .................. Just made it hang in my living room My chinese Neighbour  was inspired by my work and she also made one for this Chinese New Year.............

Decorated Lantern

Plastic Flowers and CD Pieces

Second doily of this month

Second doily of this month

My latest doily [Strawberry doily]

Strawberry doily

TUTORIAL FOR MAKING PINK RIBBON ROSE

TUTORIAL  FOR MAKING PINK RIBBON ROSE

Take 1 inch broad satin ribbon with a length of 38 inches. Leave 3 inches in the beginning of the ribbon and using needle and thread stitch an U shape of 3 inchs with running stitch continue for next 9 inches [ means 3 petals ]. Now roll the starting point [ FIRST 3 INCHES ]as u do for regular roses [ just roll without twisting] . After rolling stitch it to the cloth and make sure it should  not come off . Now slowly pull the thread on the running stitch in the satin ribbon. U will see petals forming, stitch it to the roll and cloth one by one forming 3 petals.U will get the first layer...............For  the next layer take 12 inches and follow the same procedure  as first layer with 3 inches U shape running stitch and pull the cod U get 4 petal stitch each to the flower then for the 3rd layer take a length for 15 inches  now U will get 5 petal and complete the rose by stitching it to the cloth U will get the rose. Keep increasing 3 inches for each layer . First decide the layer and proceed the work if the counting goes wrong u will be facing the problem while finishing the rose

In my rose I used a small rose in the middle which I made in separate [its the normal ribbon rose which we make by twisting] and started rolling the first 3 inches over the ribbon rose and continued the above procedure............As this my own method I would appreciate  if anybody has easier method than this can share it too..............

Thanks 

ZeenathZafar