My family recently went our first camping trip. The kids had a great time and loved being in their sleeping bags. To keep the excitement going (in preparation for our next camping trip later this month), I made these little sleeping bags for their stuffed animals, complete with zippers. The kids LOVED them… or at least they declared how much their animals loved them.
For our recent family trip to England, I became obsessed with making sure that my two little guys had enough to keep them occupied on the airplane. In the weeks before the trip, I collected fun projects, books, and toys for them and decided it would hold their interest even more if they each had a brand new travel bag to put everything inside of! The result is this messenger bag tutorial!
When my son’s preschool needed some auction items, I immediately wanted to make some lunch sacks. Two years ago, our family switched from using plastic bags every day to my handmade BPA-free… Read more. food-safe cotton-laminated snack and sandwich bags…and are never looking back!
With so many fabric manufacturers releasing cotton laminates, it is easy to find a variety of fabrics to
Using fast2fuse® Heavyweight Double-sided Fusible Stiff Interfacing in this bag gives it shape…no sagging here!
This bag is perky, ready, and waiting to be filled. As pretty as the fabrics are, I thought it still needed a little something else, so I created a quick floral embellishment with fast2fuse and Lutradur® Mixed Media Sheets… Read more..
I ironed fabric remnants onto
Let’s face it: The holidays are RIGHT around the corner. As I mentioned in this blog post, my typical Christmas is spent in a stressed out sewing frenzy. This is because I always think I’ll have time to make handmade gifts for my family members.
We are two weeks in to National Sewing Month and the chosen technique of the week is… piping! We are celebrating piping with an excerpt from Kate Haxell’s Me and My Sewing Machine that covers the topic. Secondly, I have linked to 20 tutorials using piping. Try some fun piping tutorials to practice your technique!
As September begins, so begins National Sewing Month. I’m never sure who it is that decides about these events but when it comes to sewing, I’m in.
With the Modern Quilt Guild announcing their Project Modern this month, that seems more than enough of a reason to celebrate, but if you are looking for some additional inspiration, check out our blog each week for a new featured sewing technique.
The second post in a 2-part series on how to buy your first (or next) sewing machine, this is a guide on where to buy your sewing machine.
Just like cars, sewing machines come in dozens of different makes and models, with lots of different features and styles to choose from. Also like a car, a sewing machine is a big purchase. The machine you buy today will likely be in your sewing room for years to come – with so many possibilities, how can you decide which sewing machine is the best one for you? This post, the first in a 2-part series, covers the questions you should ask yourself before buying your first (or next) sewing machine.
The fantastically talented Nicole Mallalieu of the You Sew, Girl! blog has uploaded a fabulous tutorial on how to create a box bottom for a bag using fast2fuse. Click here for the tutorial. This is a great link to bookmark in anticipation for making all of the lunch bags from our Lunch Bags! book as many of them use a box bottom. Of course, Stash Books has included a flawless set of similar instructions in the book, but sometimes it is easier to see in a tutorial! Thanks for the tutorial, Nicole!
