Valentine’s Fabric Wraps Printing Make-Kit Instructions

Welcome

With more people using their mobile phones to connect and an increased awareness of becoming more environmentally friendly, we hope you don’t mind our tutorials in digital vs paper format. Not only can you create ‘on the go’ through accessing online, but you can also enlarge the photos to see more of a close up than you can with a printed photo. Happy crafting, we would love to see your makes, please tag us #makedoandtrend and look out on our instagram (@make_do_and_trend) for virtual workshops! 

Wrapping Techniques

Please take a look at our Instagram page and YouTube for fabric wrapping techniques as well as these handy Youtube videos I have put together:

youtu.be/CyxzAXhenC8 

youtu.be/3QqiFuyP1VQ

Care & Wrapping Etiquette 

You can wash and iron your wraps in your regular wash after you have set them with an iron, we recommend a short cycle of no more than 30c and iron on a low heat.

-The hemming web attaching the invisible seam may need pressing after a wash with an iron to bond back together if it becomes loose.      

You can either gift your fabric wrap as part of the present for the recipient or ask for it back so that you can reuse it again and again. 

Provided is a matching tag and sticker to pop on the back of the tag for either option so you can decide! 

Tutorial- Fabric Wrap Printing

1. Select your first stencil from the stencil sheet and cut it out. 

2. Grab a potato and cut in half (make sure it is big enough to fit your stencil on). Please be careful with the knife but follow the edge of stencil and cut into it a few millimetres to create a raised edge like the photo.

Use a piece of kitchen roll to wipe the potato if it’s wet.

3. Iron your fabric and place some newspaper or the wrap into a surface you don’t mind getting paint on (the fabric paint may bleed through to the other side of the wrap)

4. Take your paintbrush and your chosen fabric paint and spread evenly across the stamp you’ve created.

5. Place your stamp where you would like it on the fabric wrap and print onto it. You can use the stamp at least twice with the same paint on, it just depends how ‘solid’ you would like the colour but you can always paint another coat in-between.

6. You can use a piece of kitchen towel to wipe the paint off if you want to change colours too. Continue printing onto your fabric wraps, alternating between stencils and colours if you wish. Once you are happy with your wrap, leave it to dry for at least 12 hours and then iron on the reverse side of the wrap to set the paint into the wrap.

Tutorial- Pom Pom Making

1. Open up one of your Pom Pom makers and tie some of the yarn onto one of the ends in a double knot. Start wrapping the yarn all the way around until one half is completely covered (the more you wrap it round the thicker the Pom Pom will become)
2. Once the first side is completed, take the yarn through to the other side and start wrapping again.
3. Once you have completed the other side, trim the yarn off and then close the Pom Pom maker so it comes together. Using some small, sharp scissors, cut in-between the gap along each side making sure both sides remain closed.
4. Once you have cut both sides, cut a piece of yarn off and tie it tight through the middle of the Pom Pom maker.
5. Once you have tie the yarn through the middle, open up the Pom Pom maker and then pull it apart in the middle (it might be a bit tight at first).
6. You can now trim your pom pom to make it nice and round and plump! Leave some twine at the end for you to add it to your fabric wraps.
7. Try experimenting with different patterns you can make using the Pom Pom maker by mixing up the colours of yarn and wrapping them in different places.
8. When you have covered both sides, repeat the same process again of cutting each side, tying in the centre and then pulling the Pom Pom maker apart.