Bit O' Green

What will your "Bit O' Green" be? Not sure yet well here are a few ideas that I have come up with.

Shamrock pins, more info here.

A"Lucky" gold coin with a green tie for your gradeschooler.

Just drill a hole into the coin, thread onto some hemp and tie on a green piece of fabric.

A headband of green.

A green stone choker.
Thread beads on jewelry nail and attach to ribbon.

Fabric bangles.
Strips of fabric wrapped around hair bands, then just add some green bling.

Hope this gives you a few ideas I sure have enjoyed making them. Now I just need a "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" project.
Anyone have any good ideas?

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Shamrock Pin*Update*

For all of you "no sew" crafters out there, I made the shamrock pins at least without the sewing machine. You will still need to hand sew the leaf to get the puckered look. Actually you may be able to try doing this with a glue gun. I did not try that. Silly me...no sew duh. Anyhow this time I used a heat and bond instead of zig-zagging, and achieved the perfect stiffness for the fabric. It gave it a much cleaner look, not so rugged and tattered. Now you just have to decide what look you like best. To see previous post and obtain patterns and further directions click here.

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Shamrock Pins

I have a thing for making Holiday Pins for my kids teachers. But I have never made a shamrock or anything for St. Patrick's Day (pin wise) for that matter until now. Yesterday I found a pattern for making the cutest little flowers over at the DIY Dish.

Now as soon as I saw the pattern another idea came to mind, and these little shamrocks were born. The tutorial on how to make the flower is on DIY Dish as well as the pattern download. While you're there don't forget to enter their Giveaway. They are giving away a Janome sewing machine and a Janome embroidery machine.

For the shamrock I did not stagger the petals (at least on the one with two layers) I also did not use felt as you can see. I like printed fabric, so in order to make it stiff enough I cut out two layers of fabric and placed the wrong sides together and then quickly zig-zagged around them so the edges would stay in tack. You will also need to trace one on and then flip the pattern and trace the next one on so that they will match up perfectly. For the stem I just rolled a piece of fabric and then zig-zagged down the middle. Then I tacked them together and sewed on a button or some beads for embellishment, glued the pin to the back and whala I was done.

Below are some close-ups of each one. I think they turned out so cute, as you can tell or I would not be sharing. And they are the perfect thing if you need a little " Lucky Green".

For a no sewing machine pin go here.

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Shamrock Garland

I took the Heart Garland down and the french doors just looked bare. So off I went to find some green fabric. I added some rainbow fabric where my coins hang down, not sure whether or not it will stay we'll see if it grows on me. What do you think? Found the gold coins at Hobby Lobby, and just drilled holes through them in order to string them up. Tutorial for making the garland here.

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