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Tutorial: Layered skirt with a stamped geometric design

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Tutorial: Layered skirt with a stamped geometric designSachiko from Tea Rose Home shows how she made this layered skirt with a stamped geometric print for her daughter.  She shows how she created the geometric print itself, using stamps she made from craft foam.  She used scraps of felt to create more of a “stamp pad” method of getting the paint on to the stamps, which gives a more even coverage than dabbing it on with a paint brush.  After she creates the geometric print, her tutorial then shows how she sewed it up into the layered skirt for her daughter.  Go to Tea Rose Home for the tutorial.

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  1. So cute for summer.
    My son said he could see this being done on a pair of boxer shorts. I too could see that or on a pair of lounging pants.

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