I was just looking around at lolita tutorials when i found this tutorial for wristlets, and i wanted to share them!
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Materials
+1/4 White Eyelet Cotton
+ 1/4 Light-weight Cotton
+ Ribbon colour of your choice
+ Thread to match the Ribbon
+ Sewing Machine
+ White Thread
+ Sewing Needle
+ Rotary Cutter or Scissors
+ Pinking Sheers
+ Clear Coat Nail polish
Optional:
+ 5mm 'pearl' bead
Material Explanations
+Eyelet Cotton Fabric: It is a cotton material, very light-weight that often has stiched embelishments such as flower designs, what earns it the name of 'Eyelet' are the stiched 'eyes' in the design on the fabric. Most of the edges are rounded and circular like the cloth I used, or sharp triangles.
You will be needing less then 1/4, but sometimes it's a little practical to buy excess.
+Rotary Cutter: It's a minature pizza-pie cutter, for fabric. A fool proof method for anyone who cannot cut a straight line. Note: A pair of scissors will be just fine.
+Pinking Sheers: Like Scissors with the exception that the 'arms' are notched with a triangle pattern that when cutting fabric place the designs on the fabric
+Light-weight Cotton: Easily found at your local fabric store, it is light weight and when pressed to the skin, the fabric is see-through. Since it will be used as a base, the see-through factor does not matter. You will be needing less then 1/4, but sometimes it's a little practical to buy excess.
+Raw Edge: The term used to describe the side of the fabric that was cut, because it was sepearted the it will fray.
Method
oo1. Using a measuring tape, form a circle around your wrist and slide the circle off of your hand. The measurment should be able to fit your wrist as well as getting off your hand with no problem.
[My wrists are 6" and I can slide the tape off easily at 7 1/2".]
oo2. Transfer the measurement to your eyelet and add 5/8" inches to be used later. Cut out your eyelet, as well as your cotton make sure to add the 5/8'' to the cotton. [Note: If you do not have Pinking Sheers, at this time you will want to fold the cotton upwards so that it is not visible from behind your eyelet. Once folded up a single time, fold it over again to that the raw edge is now encased. Sew.]
oo3. Now align the eyelet and cotton togeather, matching up the top and bottom fold over--press if you wish--6mm. Sew togeather the eyelet with a basic straight stich and cotton on the top side of the 6mm fold.
oo4.Flip the cuff over, your cotton should be the material on the top, and eyelet on the bottom. Trim the cotton with the Pinking Sheers so that it is not visible behind the eyelet. Using the zig-zag stich and sew along the
5/8" measurement, using Pinking Sheers cut along the zig-zag line.
oo5.Your wrist-cuff is completed, string out the lengh of your ribbon temporarily using a pin find a center and pin it to the back seam of your cuff. For a neat method, align the top of the ribbon to the stich that affixed the fabrics togeather. Lenghten the ribbon to a size that pleases you, remembering that you will enough room to tie a ribbon and have extra room for the tails.
oo6. Thread your needle folding the thread around the needle's eye and pulling out the tail to 24" cut here, and knot both pieces togeather. Run the needle and thread through the cotton bottom layer, this will affix the knot at the bottom where it is not visible, when pierced through the cotton run over the ribbon. Directly above your "enterance point" push the needle through both layers. Essentially, what you will be doing is forming a vertical equal sign, that will attach the ribbon to your cuff. Do this until you 'equal sign' is at least 1/4 of an inch, once you have achieved this size, on the back of your cuff, run the needle through the equal sign and knot. You will want at least five of these equal signs on your cuff, so seperate them out an 1 1/2" or so.
oo7.With your ribbon firmly in place tie a bow on the top of your cuff, aligning its center with your back seam. If you wish to place a pearl on the center of the bow, you may use your white thread to fix the pearl to the ribbon. If not, then thread your needle again with the thread colour that matches your ribbon and sew the along the 'square' or center of your ribbon make sure to catch all of your layers. Turn the tails and apply a thin coat of Clear Coat Nail polish to the raw edges so that the ribbon will not fray.
oo8. Congradulations! You have just made wrist cuffs! Aren't they cute?
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im going to make mine with pink ribbon...
i hope you like yours!
