How to Make a Military Doll

As I was developing my newest doll pattern, I had the idea to turn this pattern into a military doll! You may know that we are a military family and have been living the Army life together for over 20 years.

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Grandparent Doll Sewing Pattern

My library of doll patterns is growing! I’m so proud of this newest sewing pattern and I hope you love it too.

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Where to Find Skin Tone Fabrics for Doll Making

If you’ve sewn rag dolls, you may have experienced some frustration over finding just the right skin tone fabrics for them. Having designed several rag doll patterns, I have felt this frustration too! It’s been tricky to find (and then refind) the right colors for skin, especially for the lighter skin toned dolls, but I’ve finally found some great go-to skin tone fabrics and wanted to share them with you here, in advance of my upcoming grandparent doll pattern release — keep reading for a sneaky peek!

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The Easiest Quilt Binding Tutorial

A few years ago, I created a tutorial for how to sew an oversized hot pad and it’s one of my most popular videos to date — mostly because of my fuss free method of quilt binding!

That tutorial teaches the quilt binding method that I’ve always used, so I really didn’t know how many people were struggling with other, more fussy methods of binding their quilts. After receiving sooooo many comments about this genius of this method, I knew I had to share a separate tutorial just for my brilliant binding method!

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Sensory Baby Block Toy Tutorial

I get to go to a baby shower this weekend! I love baby showers and I usually like to buy something off the registry and then make a few things to go with my gift. This time I was in the mood to make something different from my usual bibs, blanket, or burp cloths.

I landed on the most FUN handmade baby toy idea and it’s probably the cutest baby shower gift I’ve ever sewn! This baby sensory block toy is super easy to put together, it’s a scrap friendly sewing project and it leaves room for tons of creativity in adding all the cute, fun elements.

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How to Install and Sew with a Walking Foot

I recently highlighted some sewing tools I’m a huge fan of, one of them being a walking foot attachment for my sewing machine. Since this is such an essential tool for me, I was so surprised at how many comments I received from people who either had one and had no idea what it was for up until that point, or people who had never even heard of one!

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Four-At-A-Time Flying Geese Quilt Block Tutorial

One of the categories I intend to add quite a bit of content to at Pin Cut Sew this year is quilting tutorials! Quilting has always been the most relaxing, therapeutic form of sewing for me, so I look forward to posting several accessible, stress free quilting articles and videos here in the coming months.

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4 New Sewing Tools and Gadgets!

I’ve received and purchased a few new-to-me sewing tools in the past few months and I’m always eager to share them with y’all! A few of these were on my Christmas wish list, one my mom gave me, and the other I bought with my birthday money last month. All four are big winners and have already been great additions to my sewing room, so perhaps these are great things to add to your sewing wish list!

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10 Quilt Block of the Month Clubs You Can Join for 2023

For the last two years, I’ve written a post here with ten great quilt block of the month clubs you can join for the following year. I try to squeeze this post in between Christmas and New Years so you have some time to get ready! These posts continue to be among my most popular each year that I’ve written them, so I wanted to make sure I round up the best BOM quilt options for 2023!

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Easy Wonky Star Quilt Block Tutorial

I’m a huge fan of freestyle quilting! I love to improvise and pull out scraps and make a big mess and just sort of wing it. Give me a list of 100 shapes to cut before I can even start my quilt and I’m out, haha. But give me freedom to make something up as I go along, and call it wonky? I’m so in!

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Sewing Thread! What's the Difference and Does it Matter?

Most of the time, when I go to the fabric store for thread, I know exactly where to go and which thread type and color I’m looking for, without regard to the other four sections of sewing thread choices, which I normally don’t even give a second glance.

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Printable Christmas Gift Tags for Your Handmade Gifts!

I’m so excited to be re-releasing these sewing humor printable gift tags with a more Christmasy color scheme! The tags are only $4 for all three and are super fast and easy to print and use.

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