HOW TO DO ANYTHING FOR FREE: July 2013

Saturday, July 27, 2013

How to Make Cute Felt Baby Shoes

A new making approach about how to make baby shoes is dug out. You will find the felt baby babies quite cute and amazing.Cutting the patterns and sewing the whole parts together are the two difficult parts for making felt baby shoes. If these two parts can be mastered well, you can handle how to make baby shoes well.

Steps

1
Cut each pattern

Cut each pattern.
- Cut the following felt pattern as the paper pattern you have drawn. Note the shoe size depends on your baby's feet.
- Sew the upper and tongue together with apparent stitches around the tongue; leave extra parts of the two ends of upper unstitched.
- Sew apparent stitches around one side of the counter; sew a short felt in the middle of the stitched side with a cross stitch on the short felt.
2
Combine each pattern

Combine each pattern.
- Fold the three pieces of sole felt with the black piece in the middle; fix the three pieces with pins.
- Place the upper on the front side of the sole; seam the two parts along the extra parts of the upper.
- Combine the counter with stitched side up. Make about four eyelets to thread the shoelace with an awl. Make the other shoe in the same way.

Things You'll Need

Felt
Sewing threads
Needle
Waxed cords
Scissor
Paper
Pen
Ruler
Pins
Awl

How to Make Decorative Bow and Arrows

Ever gotten bored outdoors with literally nothing to do? Or are you stuck on what to get your friend for Christmas or a birthday? If your friend is the type who likes archery, maybe making them a wall ornament that reminds them of their favorite sport might do the trick.

Steps

1
Find a curved, bow shaped stick. Since you aren't going to be using it for actual shooting, any type of wood should be fine as long as it is sturdy.
2
Sand and decorate the bow. This is optional. If you want to, you can paint it or add any designs.
3
Find a length of ribbon. This can be any color. You can get one that is just the right size from the ribbon cake stores use to secure a cake box. Remember that the ribbon should be about 1 1/2 times the length of the bow.
4
Wrap the ribbon around the bow starting at the base of one end. Continue wrapping the ribbon around the bow until you reach the other end.
5
Pull the ribbon across to the end where you started. This should function as a substitute bow string.
6
Secure the ribbon with glue or by tying a knot. If there is any ribbon left over, you can cut it.
7
Garnish the bow or add more designs if needed.
8
Find straight twigs or sticks for arrows. Sand them and paint them if needed. If you have feathers, you can also fletch the arrows.

Tips

When wrapping the ribbon around the bow, do so slowly and carefully. This is so that the ribbon would look neat.
For garnishes, you may want to use things like beads, feathers or small stones.
It is best if you use a glue gun for sticking the decorations on.

How to Make Felt Flowers

Do you want to learn how to make felt flowers? Well, you have come to the right place. Simply continue reading to learn this skill!

Steps

1
Collect the Things You'll Need (see below).
2
Take the felt.
3
Get a flower
4
Trace the shape of this flower onto the felt.
5
Repeat this several times until you have lots of flower shapes.
6
Cut out these flower shapes.
7
Stack them up on top of each other, and tie a little knot holding them all together, with the needle and thread.
8
Iron them at a crease to get the flowery shape.
9
Finished.

Tips

You can also draw the flower freehand, without tracing it.

Things You'll Need

Felt (any colour)
Flower (for example, a daisy)
Scissors or a craft knife
Fabric marker
Needle and thread
Iron

How to Make Flint Arrowheads

Here a easy way to make a flint arrowhead.

Steps

    1
    First find some flint. Look around. Sometimes the hardest part is finding a good piece. flint is hard,grey and smells weird. it should be about the size of a fist.
    2
    Place it on a hard surface on its side. Hit it on its side with a hammer. Flakes will come off keep hitting it until you get a few thin good size flakes.
    3
    Chip them into the size you want and chip notches on the side

Tips

    It may take a few hits to get good flakes.
    Look at how other arrowheads to get idea on the shape.

Warnings

    Small flakes will fly in everywhere so protect your eyes
    They will be sharp so be careful

How to Make Garden Lanterns from Old Tin Cans

Light up the night repurposing old tin cans. That summertime, rustic appeal will add warmth and a glow to any balmy summer evening. All you will need are tin cans (of any size), leaves to use as a pattern and a hammer and nails.

Steps

Cleaning the Tin Can

1
Clean up the tin can. Open each tin can and remove the top (along with any contents). Remove labels and wash with warm soapy water. Dry completely.
- Discard any cans that are damaged or rusted.

Prepare Tin Can For Punching

Freezing the tin can first will prevent your tin from being deformed once you start hammering it.

1
Fill the tin can up to 3/4 of its length with sand. This will prevent bulging of the tin can when frozen. (Water expands when it freezes.)
2
Add water.
3
Place the tin can inside the freezer.
4
Wait until the water freezes. Then remove the tin from the freezer.

Adding the Leaf Design

1
Choose a suitable leaf to place on tin can. Tape the leaf in place on the can. Check that you like the placement and size before you begin to hammer.
2
Tap the first nail into the leaf, being careful not to rip or break the leaf. Consider hammering the first nail toward the top of the leaf to stabilize your design.
3
Hammer the remaining nails around the perimeter of the leaf in order to create a pattern. Space the nail holes evenly so your design appears symmetrical.
4
Remove the nails and pull or tear off the leaf to expose the design. You should be able to see the same leaf pattern now outlined in nail holes on the tin can.

Spray Painting the Tin Can

Spray paint the can after you’ve created the design, so that you don’t disturb the paint (painting beforehand may create a more rough exterior).

1
Place the tin can in an open, covered area. Spray paint it the desired color.
2
Allow the tin can to dry for up to 24 hours. However, most spray paints will dry within 3 hours if left in a cool, dry area.

Assembling the Lantern

1
Fill the bottom of the can with sand. Fill it with about a ½ cup of sand, depending upon the can size.
2
Place the votive in the middle of the can, resting on the sand.
3
Light the votive. (Or, turn on battery operated votive.) This will light up the night.
4
Finished.

Tips

Hang a series of such lanterns by hammering holes on two sides of the top of each lantern can. Thread a wire through each end and loop and secure ends to the can. Hang on trees or posts around the yard, being careful to keep them away from anything flammable.
Use differently sized cans to add interest and to enhance a variety of areas in your yard.

Things You'll Need

Tin cans
Large leaves for your pattern (green leaves are stronger, you'll need leaves that can handle hammering)
A bucket of sand to hold the candles in place
As many nails as possible and your hammer to create the pattern
Masking tape
Spray paint
Votive candles; consider using battery operated votive candles to reduce the risk of fire

How to Make Good Shadow Puppets

Shadow puppets are fairly easy to make, and they are a good form for entertainment for kids and adults. This article will teach you how to make shadow puppets out of paper to entertain you and an audience!

Steps

1
Get your materials.
- Check the list of Things You'll Need on this page.
- Get and buy the materials needed, and read on.
2
Make the screen.
- Cut the bottom out of the cardboard box, leaving a 5cm frame.
- Fasten the baking paper with tape on the frame.
3
Make the puppets.
- Draw the puppet you want on a piece of paper, or cardboard.
  - An idea is to draw detail like eyes, smile or alike on the puppet, so that, when it's cut out, the details will appear in the shadow.
- Cut out the puppet.
- Put a piece of tape on one side of the stick or straw. Leave some free tape at the end of the end of the stick. Fasten the stick to your paper puppet, somewhere in the center of the backside of the puppet. Put some tape at the other side of the stick, so that it's solid. If this step is complicated, please watch the video further down on this page.
4
Show's on!
- Get an audience, and some friends to act with you, if needed.
- Make sure you have good access to the screen, you might want to cut the sides of the cardboard box down, leaving some centimeters, just so that it can still stand up alone.
- Stand behind the sofa, or table, with the screen in front of you, and the audience in the front of the screen.
- Have a strong light-source just behind you and the screen.
- Have all the puppets ready, and then turn of the light.
- Start the show and enjoy!
5
Finished.

Tips

Make a holiday-themed show. Find a story on the Internet about something relevant to the holiday, and make the characters out of paper, write down what each character will say and do, and memorize it. Get a friend or family-member if necessary.
- A good idea is to make a monster story for Halloween, Santa or Reindeer story for Christmas, and Bunny/Egg/Chicken story for Easter.
Use a projector to create flickering light if this is what you are going for.

Warnings

Be careful if using candles, lamps are recommended.
Be careful when cutting out the cardboard-box and paper.

Things You'll Need

Light-source (lamp, candle, etc)
Screen (Baking paper)
Cardboard box
Wooden sticks or straws
Paper (A strong type of paper is even better)
Tape
Sofa or table where you can hide behind

How to Make Homemade Gifts

Making homemade gifts can be easy and great fun if you are creative to make things looks funky and decorative. Homemade gifts also give you a sense of self satisfaction for having made the gift all by yourself. Your friends/family would feel excited too for the time you have spent on making the gift!
Steps

    1
    Decide on the item that you want to gift : It is first important to decide on what you want to gift depending on the person and the occasion.
    2
    Write down a list of the materials required : List out the items that are necessary to make the gift. This is to ensure you don't go and find for things when you have started with your gift-making. Glue, color pens, ribbons, sparkles are few things that would most often be required apart from the main materials to add in more color and catchy look.
    3
    Plan : Write down or plan on the steps that you are going to follow to make the gift. Having a time frame will help you make sure you complete the gift well in time.
    4
    Executing the plan : Have all the materials required to make the gift and start working on the gift.
    5
    Wrapping up: Once your gift is all done, it is important to wrap it up in a neat gift wrap. You could use some ribbons or satin tapes to wrap up the gift.

How to Make Homemade Rope

Imagine you are on an airplane flying over the Atlantic Ocean, when all of a sudden your plane starts to do a nose dive right into the ocean, and you black out. When you wake up you are laying on a beach. You need to build a lean-to for shelter but you don’t have any rope to tie the sticks together. While this scenario may be one you'll never encounter, knowing how to make rope may be a nice skill to have.

Steps

1
Cut your string into a couple pieces a little more than twice the length the rope will be.
2
Tie off each end of the string with an overhand knot.
3
Take your dowels and place one in each end of the rope where you tied your knots. Secure it by either temporarily fastening it to something, or by having someone hold it.
4
Twist the other end of the string. Keep twisting until you feel the rope start to pull really tight and begins to knot up.
5
Stick your finger right in the middle of the string and bring your end to the secured end, slowly letting rope twist together.
6
Tie an overhand knot securing the ends together so it will not unravel.
Warnings