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.…
Welcome! Whether you’ve arrived from Pinterest, CraftGossip, Total Tutorials or another of the wonderful sites that have linked to my Prairie Point Star Ornament Tutorial, I’m so glad you’re here! The step-by-step instructions with lots of photos make this an easy sewing project to complete in a couple of hours time. They will look stunning hanging on your tree or…
Last week on my work in progress post, I showed the back that I’d pieced for my Forest Friends quilt. Today I’ll share a quick post about how I pieced the back so that it was almost impossible to see where I’d joined the pieces of fabric in order to make the back big enough for the quilt. To start,…
As adults, our children are way past the age of Easter baskets and egg hunts but I do still like to give them a little something on the occasions when we’re together for Easter. So yesterday afternoon I searched through my fabric dresser and found a pretty fat quarter with Easter eggs on it and a coordinating fat quarter. I…
I got a lot of TV watching done while I was hand sewing the binding to the back of the Paper Pinwheel Lap Quilt and Bed Runner. Monday night we watched the entire first season of Broadchurch. We hadn’t intended to watch all eight episodes but the writers of the first season were masters of the cliff hanger ending! And…
Quilting the Paper Pinwheel quilts is coming along nicely after the free motion quilting practice I did on the placemats. By Wednesday night I had the four 12” blocks on the lap quilt finished before I ran out of thread. A quick trip to the fabric store fixed that but not my sore, aching shoulders. You see, I’m still learning…
With the 14th fast approaching, I decided to spend some evening TV watching time making a couple of Valentine’s Pips. They turned out so cute that yesterday with the sun shining in and providing great lighting, I held a little photo shoot and experimented with different ways to show them off. I’ve been looking for an excuse to add that…
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…
Earlier this month, I posted about sewing drawstring bags that I filled with toiletries to donate to the local women’s shelter. As I was sewing them, I took lots and lots of photos so that I could share a tutorial for how I made them. Last Saturday, I finally sat down and went through over 200 photos I had taken,…
