Leah from The Free Motion Quilting Project shows off this gorgeous jacket she made using a construction method called Quilt As You Go. She also shows every quilt she’s made so far with this technique. She admits her first attempts … Read More...
Tutorial: Sew a pickup skirt
Melissa from Melly Sews shows how she created the lovely pick-up skirt on her Mountain Laurel dress. The cascade of poufs is such a pretty detail and lends a romantic air to a skirt or dress. Get the tute.… Read More...
Freebie | Hybrid Card from Heidi Swapp
Heidi Swapp is offering up this free hybrid card as a printable on her blog. Click here to go to the download.
Free pattern: Laminated baby bib
Sew Dang Cute shares a free pattern and tutorial for making a baby bib from laminated fabric. The bib is a larger size than most, so it provides more protection for baby’s clothes. The surface of the laminated fabric wipes … Read More...
Make Your Own The Lorax Dr Seuss Cake Pops
I love that my daughter takes Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to heart with sincere concern for the loss of the Truffula trees. It demonstrates Dr. Seuss’s genius, too, to convey such a weighty environmental concern so efficiently and neatly. You … Read More...
Coffee Ring Art
Finally, a productive use for stains. Check out this amazing art created with coffee cup rings. The portrait is of Taiwanese musician Jay Chou, created by Malaysian artist Hong Yi, or Red. Spotted on Foodiggity.
Video tutorial: Use chain piecing to make quick patchwork strips
Patchwork skirts are sooo pretty with all the color and pattern, but piecing all of those squares of fabric can take a little bit of forever. Chain piecing can save you oodles of time as you’re not stopping after each … Read More...
Freebies: Eight Fairy Tale Digital Stamps
Create with TLC is having a fun Fairy Tale blog hop, jump along to all 8 blogs and pick up a sweet digital image at each one along the way. Click here to start at the Craft Chaos blog.… Read More...
Tip: Cutting silk fabric on the straight grain
House of Marmalade shows her trick for cutting silk fabric on the straight grain. Go to her post to read her tip.
[photo from House of Marmalade]
Tutorial: Altering fabric simply
Elizabeth Hartman from Oh, Fransson! did a guest post at The Modern Quilt Guild blog as part of their 100 Days of Modern Quilting – Week of Prints. She took store-bought fabric and transformed it with bleach. She explains,… Read More...
Tutorial: Exposed zippers
Zippers are usually installed so that you see as little of the zipper as possible on the outside of the garment. Exposed zippers take the opposite approach, putting the zipper right smack dab on the front of the garment. Kate … Read More...
Tutorial: Scrap Jar Stars blocks
Feeling thrifty? Amber at A Little Bit Biased was in a frugal state of mind when she made this quilt using just the scraps from earlier projects. To a 16-Patch unit she added 8 half-square triangles (HSTs) to create the … Read More...
Tutorial | String Tie Envelopes
Kate from Minieco (which is one of my favorite places to find activities for my son), is sharing the tutorial and the template for making these string tie envelopes. These would be cool made from scrapbooking paper! Click here… Read More...
Colorful Mardi Gras Cupcakes
Yes, finally a super cute use for the rainbow-cupcake-method that goes beyond rainbows. I’m loving these colorful Mardi Gras cupcakes topped with the Mardi Gras mask printables (found here at The TomKat Studio). Find them HERE at Suzie HomeCaker… Read More...
Tutorial | Date Book
Learn how to make this book over on Fisk*D. She made hers to keep date ideas with her husband, but this could also work as a brag book or mini album. Click here to go to the tutorial.
A Beautiful Shawl
It’s called a ‘shawlette’ but it looks like a shawl to me! And a beautiful one, at that.
And, since you and I will both want to make one for ourselves, you can get the free pattern here . … Read More...
Video Tutorial | Book Page Banners
Wendy Smedley and Angie Lucas from Ella Publishing will teach you how to use pages from books to make a variety of adorable banners and garlands. The video tutorial can be found here on My Craft Channel.
I just died and went to heaven – Miniature Garden Furniture
Who knew that you could get tiny garden stuff of a tiny garden?! Every possible thing you might need to a tiny garden is on this website. MOST excellent for creating all those indie terrariums you young folk are making … Read More...
Inspiration du Jour | Dreams
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Cake Pop Fondue Party
Here’s one of those “Why didn’t I think of that?” situations. Yes, why waste all that time preparing cake pops for a party? Dipping and sprinkling and all the bother when you can just turn the decorating into the party. … Read More...