Quilt As You Go (aka QAYG) stockings are a great way to use up all the Christmas fabric scraps you have leftover from other holiday sewing projects. Each of the stockings in this post were made using my Quilt As You Go Stocking Tutorial. It has complete step-by-step instructions with lots of photos so even if you’ve never quilted before…
For the past several years, this Quilt As You Go Christmas Stocking Tutorial has been one of my most popular posts. It was one of the tutorials in my monthly Christmas on a Budget series back in 2011. The photos were taken at night so they were a little darker than I would have liked and while it did the…
Getting yourself and your family out the door on time each morning can be a challenge. Add in getting everyone to eat a healthy breakfast as well and that’s a stress you just don’t need. Breakfast Burritos are an easy make-ahead meal you can have ready in the freezer for those mornings when you need to grab and go. Taking…
If you’re looking for something extra special to serve with supper tonight or for a way to use up leftover baked potatoes, you’ve come to the right place. These Twice Baked Potatoes are a Flemming family favorite. For Sunday dinners, I get requests from our kids for my Potato Salad or Hawaiian Macaroni Salad but when my husband, Dave is…
There is nothing better on a cold, blustery or blizzarding day than to come into the house and be welcomed by the smell of a hearty soup or stew cooking in the slow cooker. Put this beef stew on first thing in the morning and let it cook all day. When you come home, it will be ready and waiting…
We all have our pet peeves, don’t we? Well, one of my biggest pet peeves are sewing tutorials that claim you can sew something in 10 minutes. Now there may be superpeople out there who are speed demons that can actually complete those projects in 10 minutes. I’m here to tell you that I’m not one of them! If you’ve…
When you order a hot plate lunch in Hawaii you will be served the main course along with a scoop of sticky rice and a scoop of macaroni salad. We lived in Maui for four years and when you’ve lived somewhere for a while, you get to have local favorites and Hawaiian Macaroni Salad became a family favorite. So when…
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…