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…
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…
Last summer, the sheets were on the line when we had one of those pop up thunder storms come through. We hurried out to rescue the sheets before they got soaked.  They hadn’t had a chance to completely dry, so we decided to hang them over a couple of bedroom doors. Except… when I was trying to fling the fitted…
While browsing through the search words or phrases that have brought people to my blog, I noticed a few were searching for how to remove a vintage Singer sewing machine from it’s cabinet so I thought a quick picture post was in order. We’ll be demonstrating with my vintage Singer 15-91 that lives in the Art Deco sewing machine cabinet…
On Sunday morning before breakfast, my Dad was on the way out to the heated garage he uses as a workshop and mentioned to me that sometime if I wanted to come out to the garage, he’d show me his mother’s old sewing machine. It’s important to know that up until that moment I had no idea that this sewing…