I’ve had this candy cane vase pinned for ages and just got around to trying it this year. (The pinned version can be found on Katie Brown Home Workshop.) Take a small cylindrical vase and place two rubber bands around it. The original instructions called for one rubber band at the top of the vase but I found that the…
Before I show you my one and only finish for the week (it’s a pretty one!), I would like to welcome all the new readers who have subscribed to Super Mom – No Cape over the past couple of weeks. Many of you have arrived here after seeing the link to my Prairie Point Star Tutorial on one of a…
Do you have an old pair of oven mitts that have seen better days but are still good enough to use? Today, I’m going to show you how to recover oven mitts and give them new life using pretty new fabric and contrasting bias tape. As you can see, our old oven mitts were looking rather the worse for wear.…
With all the secret Christmas sewing that is happening here, I only managed to finish one small project that I’m able share before gift opening day. But there is a really big finish that I’m just so happy about that I can’t stop smiling every time I look at it. I’ll start with the small finish. I’ve had a little…
Every year around this time, for many people, the stress starts building about how to create the perfect holidays. The ads are everywhere… newspapers, radio, TV and in the last several years on the Internet. If you’re on Pinterest your home feed is starting to fill up with photos of the perfect Christmas tree, the perfect holiday table setting, the…
I love my morning walks. Not only are they good for my physical, emotional and mental health… they provide me with the most fun and interesting finds. Remember the two chairs I found on the curb that had been put out for garbage pick up that Dave turned into one good chair. Well yesterday, I found something that still has…
A few weeks ago, while out for my morning walk, I found two wooden chairs sitting on the curb awaiting garbage pick up. The base of each chair was still perfectly fine but the backs of both had spindles missing and/or broken. I’ve been wanting a chair for our bedroom for Dave to hang his clothes on at night so…
Our middle daughter has been coming to stay on the weekends and this past weekend she had Friday off making it a three day weekend for her. On Thursday morning, she texted me to say that time had gotten away from her and she hadn’t been able to pack that morning and wouldn’t have time to go home after work,…
There’s been a new addition to my Under the Sea crazy quilt block since I last shared a photo of it. When I was trying to draw the sea star on the sea bottom I couldn’t get it looking the way I wanted, so our middle daughter drew it for me so that the arms look like it’s crawling over…
This morning, I finished hand quilting around the last of the Forest Friends. I really like how quilting with #8 perle cotton makes whatever you’re quilting around stand out. The owl took the longest and was the most challenging as it’s in the center of the quilt. Here’s the squirrel: And here’s the raccoon: Both the raccoon and squirrel have…