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Fabric embroidery, Heart, Heart plush, Valentine's Day January 22, 2021

Heart Plush

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This cute little heart plush is a great DIY Valentine’s day gift and can be customized for whoever you are giving it to. Supplies: 2 colors of felt, embroidery string, an embroidery needle, stuffing, scissors, and a pen. Optional: scrap paper, embroidery hoop, scent sachet I can not free hand a heart shape, so I…

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AGD Crafts, Fabric agd crafts, american girl doll crafts, American girl doll fairy skirt, fairy skirt November 4, 2020

AGD Fairy Skirt DIY

Eddie Mazarura No Comments

This DIY is part of my American Girl Doll crafts collection. This has been my obsession for most of this year. The quarantine has given me time to work on some of these crafts and this was one of them. Fairy skirts are fun to make and very easy too. It does not require a…

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Fabric, Paper April 5, 2020

Free Live Sewing & Crafting Classes

Eddie Mazarura 1 Comment

This week, I am going to be doing sewing projects. Each project will be divided between 2 days: on the first day, students will practice different stitches and then on the second day, they will use those stitches to make the final project. Felt Easter Egg Ornament Template – Ideally, use felt fabric to make…

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Fabric embroidered monogram, embroidery diy, embroidery monogram, monogram tutorial, sewing gift April 5, 2020

Hoop Embroidery: Monogram L

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In January, my buddies Grace and Leila had their birthday. I decided to make them something instead of buying them something. Since at the time I was going through my major embroidery obsession, I decided to embroider monograms for them. I posted the DIY for Graces monogram and today I am posting Leila’s. Hope you…

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Fabric #embroideredmonogram, #Frenchknotstitch, #monogram, #stemstitch February 22, 2020

Hoop Embroidery: Monogram G

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For my twin friends who turned 8 this year, I decided to make them a gift instead of buying them one as I did last year. Since I have been obsessed with hoop embroidery in the last coupla months, it was a no-brainer. I decided that I would embroider monograms for the girls. So today…

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Fabric #embroiderycraft, #heartembroidery, #valentinecraft, #valentinesday, #valentinesdaygift February 1, 2020

Embroidered Heart Hoop

Eddie Mazarura 1 Comment

Here is another craft for Valentines Day. Right now I am going through a hoop embroidery mini obsession. The idea to do embroidery initially came up as I was looking for activities for our Craft Market class. I’ll post an example of what the kiddos will be doing in the coming weeks. Each term I…

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Fabric #ballerinaactivity, #ballerinacanvas, #girlsroomdecor, #rainydayactivity, #roomdecor August 12, 2019

Ballerina on Canvas

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This was one of my favorite activities ever to do with my Craft Market girls. It is pretty and would look fabulous in any sophisticated kids room. What I like about the activities is that it requires few supplies. Now the one tool I do use often and for a lot of my activities that…

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Fabric #cyanotypefabric, #fabriccraft, #summeractivity June 29, 2019

Sun Print Wall Hanging

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I first came across sun prints, also known as cyanotype several years ago. I loved the idea at first sight. I have used it in a coupla my classes but since I don’t do as many design and craft classes as I used to, I have not done the activity in a while. As I…

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Fabric July 20, 2018

Kanzashi Flower: Basic Bottoms Up

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For our Friday DIY, I decided to highlight kanzashi flowers again.  This time, we turned the flower up side down to showcase the beauty of the bottom of the classic flower.  Part of the reason why I like using this particular technique to make these flowers, is that if you pay attention as you are…

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Fabric June 27, 2018

Kanzashi Sunflower: A DIY

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What I like about the tsumami kanzashi technique, is that you can make different types of flowers using the basic technique.  For this DIY, I decided to showcase sunflowers. Beyond the classic yellow color, I decided to experiment with a few other colors: white and pink.  I also used pearls instead of Swarovski crystals for…

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About Me

Hello, I am Eddie Mazarura.  Workshops Essayer is my baby, a place that I use to curate some of my favorite DIY’s, crafts and recipes.  I also teach some of those DIY’s to my students as part of enrichment programs in elementary and middle schools in NYC as well as virtually.  Crafting is my jam and love all types from paper, yarn, food, wood, fabric bath & body to just about anything and everything that can be made at home.

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