Are you looking for a creative way to wrap a small treasure for gifting this year? Christmas Pips made from my Thimble Pip Tutorial are the perfect solution! They will hold a pair of earrings, a brooch or even a ring! For small children, add candy and coins to them. Then hang them on the tree. The gift will be hidden in…
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 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…
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…
I think I’ve developed a bit of a thing for making these cute little thimble pips. They are quite a bit smaller than the clam shell accessories cases I showed you in this post. So far I’ve made three while working on the tutorial for how to make them and I’ve got the plastic forms cut out to make 5…
Getting this quilt top sewn together and then photographed turned into a bit of an adventure. Katherine over at Sew Me Something Good recently shared beautiful photographs she’d taken of her maple leaf quilt while on a fall nature walk. The whole time I was piecing the quilt I showed you on Wednesday I kept thinking of a creative place…
Back in the spring when we were staying in the hotel, I started work on a quilt kit for One Big Cabin by Row House Creations When we moved from the hotel into our apartment it got packed up and didn’t get worked on again until this past weekend. Before it got packed away, I had chosen to blanket stitch…