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Scraps! \u00a0We all make them, and for many of us, they are a difficult thing to part with. I too have been saving up the tiny bits and pieces of hundreds of assiut costumes, and have amassed quite a little hoard of assiut scraps. \u00a0My scrap box went from something a bit bigger than a shoe-box, to a pretty large flip-top tub. I\u2019ve found I\u2019ve had to sort them by size and usability and it took a day to realize that I making scraps faster than I\u2019m getting rid of them!<\/p>\n
One of my favorite scrap-using projects are hair flowers. We sat down in the studio and planned out a collection of hair flowers made from five simple ingredients<\/p>\n
1 – Black Assiut Scraps
\n2 – Black Fusible Interfacing
\n3 – Hair Clip
\n4 – Assorted Small Metal Beads
\n5 – Plain Black Tulle
\n6 – Black Button and Carpet Threads<\/p>\n
In a nutshell, the process works likes this.<\/p>\n
1 – Pick out a motif you\u00a0like. \u00a0If you don\u2019t have any complete motifs, create your own by stitching smaller pieces together.
\n2 – Use one or two layers of fusible interfacing to stiffen the assiut motif. \u00a0If you want it super-stiff – try using some spray starch to give it more body.
\n3 – Cut out a strip of tulle approximately 12\u201d long, and gather along one long edge. \u00a0This will create the ruffled cockade that will serve as a base for our assiut motif.
\n4 – Using heavy-duty thread, stitch the stiffened assiut motif to the tulle cockade through the center.
\n5 – Add any beads or baubles you crave to embellish your hair flower.
\n6 – Flip over and stitch on a hair clip.<\/p>\n
And Volila – An assiut hair flower made from scraps.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re making a batch of these to add to our Etsy store, but if you have your own assiut scrap stash, give making your own hair flowers a go. \u00a0It\u2019s a fast, easy and fun hand-sewing project that takes a few hours, depending on how quickly you sew. Assiut, assuit, asyut, azute, or tulle bi telli – no matter how you spell it or cut it, the fabric is amazing!<\/p>\n
Best of luck using up your scraps! Scraps! \u00a0We all make them, and for many of us, they are a difficult thing to part with. I too have been saving up the tiny bits and pieces of hundreds of assiut costumes, and have amassed quite a little hoard of assiut scraps. \u00a0My scrap box went from something a bit bigger than a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assiut-assuit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Assiut-Hair-Flowers-Bar.jpg?fit=699%2C3282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-SZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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