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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Budget Savers, Sewing

Travel Laundry Bag Part 2 – How to Add the Letters

Please note:  For the basic construction of the travel laundry bag see my previous post. Materials needed to add letters to the laundry bag: Scraps of leftover fabric Heat N Bond Ultra Hold(<affiliate link) Print out the letters for the word “laundry” (or whatever word you’d like on the laundry bag.)   I used the lower case bubble letters found…

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Quilting, Sewing

Star Fruit Cushion Finished and Progress on Other Projects

Earlier this week, I tackled re-stuffing the Star Fruit Cushion. This tool, called a locking clamp (<-affiliate link) made the process a little easier than the first time I tried stuffing it. Even so, it took three hours and a few unladylike words before I decided that done was better than perfect and started to sew the opening closed. It’s by…

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Gift Ideas, Sewing

Aprons and Dolly Diapers

This week, I’ve been busy sewing more play things for our oldest daughter’s classroom. First up were these two reversible aprons with adjustable ties. I used a few different aprons as inspiration.  I got the idea for the adjustable ties from here.  Somewhat Simple inspired me to use up some more of the fat quarters I’ve been collecting. And the…

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Quilting, Sewing

Very Early Morning Sewing

I think I’ve mentioned before in passing that we are currently apartment sitting/cat-sitting while our middle daughter is away on a three month temporary work assignment.    Actually… our daughter had been cat-sitting this cat for a co-worker who was on a temporary work assignment.  When that work assignment became permanent, our daughter ended up with the cat which we are…

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