I stopped by a local thrift shop looking for specific household linens to make bags and a top for me. Here is what I found at the one shop. All these goodies for $12. The bright yellow, red, black, brown and blue is a heavy canvas shower curtain. I fell in love with it immediately.…
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This tutorial is how to make a tote bag using a plain tote bag as the base. Here is my finished tote. Before I start, I need to give credit Stitches by Julia. Here is the video of her project using the tote base.
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A friend of mine lost her husband awhile back. Rick loved wearing flannel shirts so I told her I’d be happy to make her family pillows with his shirts. It took her awhile, but recently she gave me his favorite shirt to make her a special pillow. Like other “precious” fabric, his favorite flannel shirt…
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As I mentioned earlier, I was given jeans from a friend, Barbara, whose husband was ill and has lost weight. I’ve used these jeans in several project including that fabric book I made last month. Her husband recently died, and she asked me to make a couple totes for her girls with the jeans and…
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I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for gift ideas; things I can make that won’t take a lot of time but would hopefully be welcomed. I thought I’d share today a few of my favorite gift ideas and tutorials.
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It’s that time to look back on this year. Check out link above pictures for blog post.
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I’ve been looking for ways to use some of my old ice dyed fabric, but these easiest grocery totes can also be made out of recycled jeans or other fabrics. All you need is the following: Outside fabric – 18 x 36 inches, or if you want to use two fabrics as I did in…
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In my quest to use up some of my fabric, I sewed another tote. This one will go in our local library auction. I didn’t have enough of the ice dyed fabric, so added the yellow which I low immersion dyed last month for another project. This is a free pattern from Swoon. This pattern…
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