Christmas Eve is only a month away so for today and the next four Mondays I’ll be posting some Christmas patterns that can be stitched up quickly to use for gifts or decorations around the house. First up are these adorable little Angels. The pattern for the angels is available as a pdf to download here.
Like the fern that I posted last week, ivies are another apartment friendly plant that can tolerate low lighting. In today’s pattern they are potted in a bowl. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
I’ve been asked several times in e-mails and by friends and family how I’ve managed to do all the sewing and crafting that I do when I’m traveling from contract to contract with Dave. Today I thought I’d share the items we make sure to fit in the car. Inside the dark blue bag pictured above is a portable Singer…
One of the zipper pulls on the duffle bag that I use to carry the majority of my sewing and crafting supplies with me when we’re traveling from contract to contract broke. But the zipper itself was still fine. So I stopped off at Joann Fabrics (with 50% off coupon) and picked up one of these zipper pull repair kits.…
I love houseplants and used to have several in various spots throughout every house we’ve lived in. When we moved into our apartment in Nebraska, the very first thing that was moved in was a new house plant. I haven’t yet bought a fern but I’m sure one will make it’s way home in the future as they are excellent…
I finished my new matching set of travel bags just in time for us to set off on a new adventure. (More on that in another post.) I absolutely love that fabric. When I was packing them for our trip, I couldn’t help but smile at how pretty they were. For the triangular/prism shaped bag I used this fantastic tutorial…
Last week, I posted the pattern for His and Hers. This week’s offering for Vintage Embroidery Monday is the pattern for “Ours”. For this pattern, you will need to print off both Part 1 and 2 and then tape them together, matching the sections that are the same before tracing the pattern onto your fabric of choice. The pdf for…
Welcome! Whether you’ve arrived from Pinterest, CraftGossip, Total Tutorials or another of the wonderful sites that have linked to my Thimble Pip Tutorial… I’m so glad you’re here! How many times have you been working on a hand sewing project where you need to use your thimble only to search and search and not find it anywhere? How many times…
This post is a supplement to my Thimble Pip Tutuorial. After I posted about the first three thimble pips I’d been making, one of my readers e-mailed me asking me to share what kind of plastic I was upcycling to make the pip forms. She gently reminded me that international readers such as herself might not have something similar in…
Back in July, I showed you this beautiful fabric (scroll down to the last photo) that I’d purchased with the intent to make myself a new set of matching travel bags. At the time, I hoped to have them finished to use when I traveled back to Canada to see our daughter and her partner while they were on holidays…