Do you still do not know how to make a box, a candle, sew a purse and a pillow in the form of a strawberry? We urgently need to study! At the same time, you will learn how to decorate a cake, dessert with this berry. The strawberry season is in full swing. When, if not now, roll up compotes for the winter, make jam, freeze berries for future use. But you will have the opportunity to remember this wonderful time all year round if you decide to sew a purse, a pillow, make a strawberry-shaped box, or make scented candles.
Colorful jewelry box
Looking at it, you will be able to remember the summer at any time of the year, when such picturesque berries ripened. To make the box look bright, take a red and green cloth in a saturated color.
Here is a complete list of what you will need:
- red fabric with small white or black polka dots;
- green canvas;
- lining fabric;
- pins;
- red button;
- sewing machine;
- regular scissors;
- White paper;
- pencil;
- some cotton wool;
- red lightning;
- needle with thread;
- zigzag scissors.
First, draw a pattern on a piece of paper. As you can see in the photo, the calculations are given in inches, but it is easy to translate them into centimeters, at the same time enriching your knowledge of mathematics. In one inch - 2, 54 cm. Therefore, having rounded and slightly edited, we decide that the width of the wedge is 7, 6 cm; height - 14.5 cm.
But we need to cut the wedge, so we set aside 3 cm on top, cut it off. You have got a workpiece with a height of 11.5 cm; width 7, 6 cm.
If you want to simplify the task, enlarge the wedge on the monitor screen, apply transparent paper or a file, redraw it. Now place the wedge on the red fabric, cut out 4 identical pieces. The same must be made from white linen. Here's how to make a DIY box next.
You can put a white fabric on a red one, place a template on top, outline and cut out.
Pin each lined piece with pins and zigzag the edges with scissors.
Now take 2 wedges, fold them right sides, sew on the wrong side.
Then attach the edge of the third workpiece to one of the sides, then the fourth. Stitch the edges of the first and fourth pieces until you get this keg.
Here's how the jewelry box is made next. Attach the zipper to the top of the strawberry, pin it off, grind, finish over the edge.
Next, we make a detail so that our berry gets a lid. To do this, measure the diameter of the strawberries in this place, cut a circle out of the green cloth of the same size, but add a seam allowance on all sides. Sew the other half of the zipper here.
Here's what you should get for now.
There is very little left, and you will know how to make the box. From the same linen as the lid and a non-woven lining fabric, cut out the greens for the strawberries. Sew both pieces.
Zigzag the edges and sew a red button into the center. Sew the herbs to the lid of the strawberry with a needle and thread.
It remains to make a "tail", cutting it out of green fabric in the form of a rectangle, grind it, turn it out on the face, stuff it with cotton wool, sew a hole on the hands.
Sew it back on and let the jewelry box take its rightful place in the house!
How to make a candle yourself?
Turn the kitchen into a small home production for a while. Enjoy the moments of making a romantic piece.
To make a candle at home, you need:
- small glass jar;
- transparent paraffin gel;
- wick;
- red food coloring;
- strawberry food flavor;
- lollipops with strawberry aroma and taste;
- some alcohol or vodka;
- cotton wool;
- a strawberry-themed napkin;
- curly scissors;
- compass;
- raffia.
Take a jar and degrease it with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol or vodka. Heat the gel in a water bath.
Attention! The water should not boil or exceed 80 ° C. Also, do not melt the gel over an open fire or in a microwave oven. This can cause the gel to cloud or ignite. Another nuisance that threatens due to non-compliance with these recommendations is an unpleasant smell. If you follow them, this will not happen.
While the gel is melting, arrange the candies in the jar, placing a wick in the center of the jar. Then, while holding it, gently pour in the paraffin gel.
Sometimes, when pouring the gel, air bubbles form, which rise upward. It is easy to get rid of this effect by piercing them with a toothpick. The gel should now harden. In the meantime, we are doing the final work.
Place the napkin on the fabric, attach to it with an iron. With a compass, draw a circle on this blank, larger than the diameter of the neck, cut it out with curly scissors.
Is the contents of the jar frozen? Then cover it with a made soft lid, bandage with raffia.
Here's how to make candles at home. Continuing the strawberry theme, you can take a short break and have a snack with delicious ice cream. Also use aromatic berries to create it. In the summer heat, such a delicacy will become a real ambrosia. Learn how to decorate a cake, ice cream or sweet dessert with strawberries. Read about it right now.
How to make ice cream, decorate cake, dessert with strawberries
Here are the ingredients for such a wonderful dessert:
- 250 ml of milk;
- 250 ml cream;
- 100 g granulated sugar;
- 3 yolks;
- 2 cups fresh strawberries
- 1 tsp vanilla essence or 0.5 bags of vanillin.
Here's how to make ice cream. Sort the strawberries, add 50 g of sugar, put in the refrigerator for half an hour. At this time, lightly beat 3 yolks with the remaining 50 g of sugar, pour in the milk, mix. Put the mass on fire, stirring occasionally, heat to almost boil, but do not bring to it. Turn off the heat, cool the cream. Then put it in the freezer for 3 hours.
Take out the mass every 20 minutes, mix. If this is not done, ice grains will form in the ice cream when it freezes due to the separating liquid. Get out ice cream. Put some strawberries in a bowl, then ice cream. Top it off with these sweet berries.
If you want to make ice cream so that it is all rich pink and very low in calories, then use the following recipe. For him, take the following ingredients:
- 200 g strawberries;
- 55 g sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l. water;
- some lemon juice.
Here's how to make this recipe for strawberry ice cream. First, let's make a syrup from sugar and water. Mix these ingredients, put on low heat.
When the syrup boils, boil it for 5 minutes and then cool to room temperature. At this time, we turn the pre-sorted, washed, thrown in a colander berries in mashed potatoes with a blender.
Combine strawberry puree with sugar syrup, add lemon juice (optional), stir well. It remains to freeze the dessert in the freezer for a couple of hours or a little more and you can serve it to the table!
If you want to continue a delicious break and learn how to beautifully decorate a cake with strawberries, then choose which method you like best.
The jelly filling with berries looks very nice. This requires a split form. You can use the one in which the cakes were baked. Place them here, sandwiched with cream. Spread out whole berries.
To beautifully decorate the cake with strawberries, select only good berries, let them be about the same size. You can buy ready-made strawberry jelly in powder, dilute it with water, prepare according to the instructions. Can be soaked for 20 minutes. 1 tbsp. l. gelatin in 150 ml of boiled water, then melt it in a water bath. Add strawberry syrup to taste. Instead, you can use strained jam liquid.
If you have strawberry juice, then soak 1 tbsp. l. gelatin in 60 g of water, when it swells, melt in a water bath, adding sugar to taste. Then combine with 100 ml of juice.
Spread the berries on the surface of the cake, carefully pour over the cooled syrup. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Then take it out of the feed split mold.
Considering how to decorate a cake with strawberries, it should be noted that you can do this with whole berries or cut into circles.
By the way, they go well with whipped cream. If this is the cream, cut the berries into halves and lay them on the surface. How to decorate a cake with strawberries photo demonstrates eloquent words.
Isn't it true that scarlet strawberries look amazing against a snow-white background? Even whole berries with tails will look great surrounded by whipped cream.
Now you know how to decorate a cake with strawberries, it remains to tell how to decorate desserts and cakes with it. Very simple. With a thin knife, peel off the thin skin of a large berry in a spiral, reaching the middle. Lay it down for dessert, slightly curling it up. Place 1 small strawberry in the center of the berry flower.
After a delicious meal, you can again do needlework on a given topic.
The next decor item will help you get comfortable in an armchair or take a nap on the couch.
We create decorative pillows with our own hands
Let's get down to business right away, putting in front of us:
- pink polka dot fabric;
- green canvas;
- threads;
- sintepon filler;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- scissors.
Fold the base fabric in half. Draw an isosceles triangle on it, with one side at the fold. Cut out the triangle. The photo shows how to sew a pillow from bright and pale pink fabric.
Sew one unsewn side of the triangle, then cut off the tip near it. Sew this small slot, sew the 2 formed corners.
Fill the blank with padding polyester, pull off the edges, sew them on your hands. You do not even need a pillow pattern, since this is made very simply.
To make a strawberry tail, cut out 3 of these details from the green fabric. 2 small ones are identical and follow the outline of the big one.
Fold these 2 small blanks right sides, grind as in the photo - along the top, unfold.
Now put on a large piece of greenery this sewn from two halves. Stitch them, sew the resulting element onto the top of the berry.
Here's how to sew a pillow with your own hands, which decorates a room, an armchair. If you love this kind of needlework, the next section of the article will also come in handy.
How to sew a strawberry wallet
It is done pretty quickly. For such a necessary thing you need:
- dense red and green fabric;
- non-woven glue-based;
- white beads or beads;
- wallet clasp;
- thread, needle;
- lining fabric;
- iron;
- scissors.
We start making a wallet with our own hands. To do this, we cut out paired parts from red fabric in the form of a berry, and 2 green ones will become strawberry greens. The same blanks must be made of non-woven fabric, but less by 7 mm on all sides. Only at the bottom of the greenery do not reduce the size.
Place the non-woven parts on the wrong side of the fabric, iron with an iron to glue. Now overlay the green blank over the red one. Iron also. Pin the parts cut for the backing. You are beginning to get a colorful wallet, made with your own hands - dexterous and skillful. It remains to sew on beads or beads on it, sew 2 halves of strawberries on the wrong side, turn them out on the face.
Place the clasp on top of the wallet, attach it with a special tool or pliers.
You can make a simple fastener using Velcro, buttons, or a zip fastener. Any of these elements must be sewn onto the top of the wallet. The work has been completed. It turned out to be a wonderful author's wallet, which you skillfully sewed with your own hands. Let no money be transferred in it, and this thing will become a talisman of wealth and good luck!
How to make small strawberries out of paper for room decor, see this video:
