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If you’re a crafty person who makes something with your hands, you may be considering giving handmade Christmas gifts this year. I’ve sewn many gifts for friends and family over the years and I’ve learned some things along the way that I now keep in mind every time I’m thinking about making presents, and I’m here to share those with you today!
Read MoreIf you’re a reader or have a bookworm in your life, you will understand the need for today’s tutorial! Reading is a big part of my life, and since I’m also in the taxi mom phase of parenting, I take books with me everywhere I go. I almost always have a book in the car or tossed into my tote bag, and this is obviously no way to preserve the covers and pages of said books.
Read MoreWhen my kids were little, they had a Little People Nativity play set that they loved and looked forward to getting out of the holiday bin each year at Christmastime. My newest pattern was inspired by this sweet Christmas memory with my own children, who are now teens, and I really hope you love it!
Read MoreDoesn’t Fall just give you all the cozy sewing feels? It does me. It seems like Fall is the time of year when the homey hobbies like sewing and knitting get their time to shine. But, it’s also the time of year when life starts to get busy, so you may not have time to sew a Fall themed quilt or hand make your entire Fall wardrobe.
Read MoreIf you’re a short waisted gal like me, then boy, do I have the tutorial for you today! While I like the look of all the current high waisted trends on other people, being short waisted, those clothes can look rather ridiculous on me. In fact, most mid rise fit like high rise on me!
Because of this, I struggle to find pants that are the right rise for me right now. I recently bought some pajama pants, though, that were high rise, but that I knew I could alter to fit me how I like them. I created a video tutorial to show you how to do it too!
Read MoreI love sewing for Fall! I love sewing little projects for most holidays, actually, but Fall always feels like the perfect time to make something simple, scrappy and cute to add to our home decor for the season. A few weeks ago, I was in need of a small sewing project I could make with scraps just for fun and I remembered taking a photo in an antique store last summer of the cutest little fabric pumpkins, hand sewn many, many years ago, with quirky embroidered faces, just hanging on a nail like ornaments.
Read MoreAre you someone who has been sewing clothing and finding that your clothes just aren’t turning out how you wanted them to? Maybe they’re wearable, but just don’t look good on you, or maybe they actually turned out beautifully, but you find them languishing in the back of your closet, never being worn and you wonder why it is you don’t like it.
If that’s you, I have two big tips for you today so that you can start making garments you’ll actually be able to wear! If you’re making one of these mistakes in your sewing life, this post is sure to improve your success rate. Promise.
Read MoreIntroducing my newest sewing pattern! I’m really diggin’ this one, it’s just the cutest. I wanted to make a pumpkin outfit for my Phoebe Rag Doll collection, but it obviously snowballed and I made TWO different Halloween costumes for the dolls instead!
Read MoreMy teen daughters are into cottage core style hair accessories lately and asked if I could copy a few that we’ve seen. One of those were some pretty, velvet bows we spotted at Target the other day. They were larger hair bows with long tails and so cute! But at $14 a piece, we knew we could DIY them for a fraction of the cost.
Sure enough, after spending just $2.50 for each spool of velvet ribbon and the same for a bag of hair clips, we have the cutest set of velvet hair bows! And I’m going to teach you how, so you can have some too :)
Read MoreIf you have a top or shirt pattern that you love the fit of and that you find yourself making over and over, you may have considered other ways to use it, including somehow turning it into a dress. This is something I’ve done many times with great success! So today I’m going to show you how you can lengthen any top sewing pattern to make a dress.
Let the pattern hacking commence!
Read MoreI’m very excited to show you around my new, small-but-just-right sewing room today! As someone who has lived in 7 states now, you can imagine that I have sewn in all kinds of spaces, from big rooms to basements, to hallway desks, to living room corners. Because of this, I’ve amassed quite a few tips for adapting to sewing in small or make-shift spaces and I’m here to share those ideas with you today too so that you can make any space work for you!
Read MoreThe first quilt I ever made was an improv quilt! It was a scrappy, wonky house quilt backed with flannel and up until my toddler son got into some paint and painted the basement family room with it, including said quilt, it was one of the coziest too.
I’m here to chat about improv quilting today; what it is, how to get started, and project ideas!
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