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Add drama to your holiday table with this tablecloth with ribbon banding and corner bows. The tutorial is part of Sew4Home’s Citrus Holiday blog series. Get the how-to.
[photo from Sew4Home]
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Instructables user merricat shares a tutorial for making this super cute baby dragon cape. Make it as a Halloween costume, but keep it as dress-up fun for years to come. Go to the tutorial.
[photo by merricat on Instructables]
Dena of Threads To Fabric blog shares a wonderfully detailed tutorial on paper piecing. She includes a good tip on how to keep your blocks in shape too. Get the how-to.
Via Dena from Quilter Going Bananas
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Care from Obsessively Stitching shares an ingenious way to store a group of tiny items, such as Legos. She stitches plastic storage bags together into a book with a bit of fabric binding. The binding keeps the baggies together, but the…
Grace Violet shows how to make this striking ruffle pillow. It’s a simple square pillow with one large ruffle down the middle. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from Grace Violet]
The folks at Threads magazine show how to acheive this scallop edge finish on your sewing machine using pearl cotton and a blind hem stitch. This looks like such a cool technique! (Adding it to my “must try” list.) Go to…
The Food Network shares a tutorial for making this cupcake Halloween costume. This is so cute! I especially like the sprinkles made from foam hair rollers. Get the how-to.
[via U Create]
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Kelly from Oilcloth Addict shares her latest project in process. It’s a rag rug made out of her scraps of oilcloth, which will make it an all-weather rag rug. What a cool idea!! Read more about her project at Oilcloth Addict.
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Disney from Ruffles n Stuff shows how to make this fabulous lampshade coverd in ruffles. Think how pretty this would be with a cottage-style bedroom decor! Get the how-to.
[photo from Ruffles n Stuff]
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Ashley from Lil Blue Boo made this prince of a frog bean bag, and shares the pattern and tutorial for you to make one, too. His little tongue is a bit of folded ribbon. How cute!! Go to the tutorial.
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With all of the dress shirt refashioning going on, I’m sure that there are a lot of extra dress shirt collars sitting in studios all over. Luci from DuhBe shows how to use a dress shirt collar to make this embellished…
Bernina’s Sewing Republic shows how to make to make this throw pillow, designed by Stacy Schlyer. Though it looks like your basic square throw pillow, this pillow has a secret pocket on the side. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from Bernina's Sewing Republic]
Instructables user sarahfish shows how to make a handkerchief skirt from old t-shirts. The example shows it made from three t-shirts in all the same color, but you could use several different colors of shirts for a more eclectic look. Go…
Instructables user acafarchio is one brave woman. Over the course of 9 months, she taught a preschool class how to sew, and then helped each one create their own costume. While many (most) would have shied away from taking on such a…
Antoinette from clevergirl.org finishes up her blog series on sewing your own undies with a tutorial showing how to convert a bikini panty sewing pattern to boy short undies. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from clevergirl.org]
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Nikki from Nikki, In Stitches made this gorgeous ruched ribbon, and shares a tutorial showing how she did it. I love it! The layers and layers of ruched petals remind me of a dahlia. She made it as an embellishment for…
Heather Bailey shares a tutorial for stacking layers of gathered fabric to make these fun fabric flowers. In addition to basic instructions for making these flowers, she shares some ideas for other buttons and embellishments to add to the center as…
If the neckline on a sewing pattern is lower than you’d like, you can easily alter the pattern by raising the neckline. Rian of Presser Foot shows how to do just that. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from Presser Foot]
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I’ve seen some cool sewing projects using burlap coffee sacks. The only problem is, I don’t have any burlap coffee sacks. Creative Little Daisy wanted some coffee sacks for a project, and came up with a solution to that problem. She…
