Happy New Year!! I’ve been wanting to do something with Grandma’s quilts that are tattered – holes everywhere. I’ve seen a lot of neat accessories made with them, but haven’t gotten around to playing with them until right before Christmas when I made my angel ornament for Dave for our Christmas Day ornament tradition. Directions…
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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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For those of you following my fabric book journey, I wanted you to see my progress. Now it was time to start working on the spreads.
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I’ve been watching several videos on YouTube about Swedish Death Cleaning. I guess with the passing of my sis I’ve been thinking a lot about all of the stuff I have that I never use. I feel it’s time to either use it or let someone else enjoy it. So I was looking at fabric…
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Last December I read a post on Mel Beach’s blog about the I found a Quilted Heart Project and her November heART challenge. Check out her post here. In that post she has links to her set up and the four weeks. First of all, this was all about using stuff she already have in…
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For the new year I’ve been looking to do something with all of those fabric scraps. I found the Postcard Fabric Art group on Facebook. They are a great group who love to encourage.
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I love thrift shopping. A week or so ago, Tena and I went shopping. It’s been so long since I thrift shopped with anyone, and it was so much fun. Here is what I purchased.
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I was cleaning my computer desktop the other day and ran across a pdf from Interweave about making art dolls. It’s a compilation of past articles in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine. Here is a link to the download.
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