One day last week, I was tracing some embroidery patterns onto muslin with the pattern and fabric taped to the window of the back door. I commented how much easier it would be to trace them if I had a light box and wished there was a way to make one that wouldn’t cost too much. A few minutes later,…
Heidi, one of the wonderful ladies who co-host the Friday Night Sew In, drew numbers of all those who signed up for last Friday’s Sew In and I won! The prize is a cute little FNSI pin cushion that Heidi made and a four pack of beautiful Verna fat quarters. I’m already thinking up things I can make with them.…
Last night during the FNSI, I didn’t get as far along with the Disappearing Nine Patch quilt blocks as I had hoped. Things came up during the week and I didn’t get all the blocks sewn together until late Friday afternoon. Most of Friday evening was then spent pressing and cutting apart the nine patch blocks. Here is what the…
One way to keep energy costs down is to make the most of your oven each time you use it. For example, I rarely bake just one loaf of bread. Five loaves will fit on my oven racks and so that’s how many I bake at a time. Another way to make the most efficient use of the heat in…
As you’ve probably gathered from previous posts, I’ve been doing a lot of sewing lately. Mostly on the Christmas gift bags, but also on some other projects that I had either purchased the fabric for and not gotten around to making them or had actually got the project half way done and then put it away. While taking a break…