On the site where I found the pattern for knitting new born hats for donation, there was another page about making things for preemies and it mentions that one of the needs that doesn’t always get met is for hats for the smallest of the newborns (1 to 1.5 lbs), either because people don’t realize that there is a need…
Monday, I needed to drive up to Goderich to Mark’s Work Wearhouse to pick up a safety jacket for Dave for him to wear on the job and I took the opportunity afterwards to stop into Quilters By the Square to pick up sewing machine needles that I needed and to spend some time browsing through and fondling the fabric.…
After we arrived back in Ontario and until Dave’s contract started in western Ontario, we stayed with our daughter in Toronto. One thing I didn’t mention in that post is that our daughter lives in a tiny one bedroom apartment in a walk-up on the third floor. She gave up her bed and bedroom and slept on her couch so…
Need a quick to knit pattern to use up all those balls of yarn leftover from other projects. These Scrap Hats are the perfect project! They knit up quickly from whatever worsted weight scraps you happen to have. The pattern is for an adult size hat or as we call them in Canada; toques. But once you’ve knit one, you’ll…
I discovered several balls of worsted weight yarn leftover from other projects in the bottom of my knitting bag.   None were big enough on their own to make anything so I’ve decided to make scrap hats or as they’re called in Canada… toques. Below is a photo of the one I started last night while watching Selling LA on…
Recovering Lawn Chair Cushions – Part 1 Part 2 – The Faux Piping Part 3 – Sewing the Back and Seat Together When I was removing the buttons from the cushions prior to taking the cushions apart, I started thinking about where I was going to get new buttons that would match the new fabric.  I checked out the price…
Recovering Lawn Chair Cushions – Part 1 Part 2 – The Faux Piping Once I had the back and seat cushion covers sewed and the batting inserted into each, I basted the open end of each cushion to close the cushion and hold the fabric in place. For the next step of sewing the back cushion and the seat cushion…
Recovering Lawn Chair Cushions – Part 1 To create the faux piping effect on the cushions, I took advantage of the white stripes on the blue and white striped fabric. I placed the ruler lengthwise along the stripes, so that I would be leaving ½” of white along each side of the blue stripes.   Then I cut along the entire…
Learn how to recover lawn chair cushions to give them new life at a fraction of the cost of buying new ones. The step-by-step instructions provided in this tutorial will show you how I went about recovering mine with new fabric while reusing the inside foam and batting and recovering the buttons. Also included is an easy faux-piping technique will…
While searching through and organizing my computer photo files, I came across pictures I had taken while joining the striped borders for the flying zebra baby and child-sized quilts. At the time, I thought maybe others might like to see how I went about sewing the strips of border fabric together on the diagonal while at the same time matching…
