Sara from CraftSnob shows how to make this quick and easy fringed scarf.  It’s shaped into a tube so it doesn’t fall off of your neck.  Two strips of fleece, two seams, and a lot of small cuts is all … Read More...

Jennifer from Monkey See, Monkey Do! offers a free pattern and tutorial for making this super cute fleece dinosaur softie.  This would make an awesome baby gift!  (Check out the gift ensemble she created with slippers and a dinosaur board … Read More...

Indie Tutes shares a free pattern and tutorial for making a little softie doll.  You can easily personalize this doll with fabric choice or the insertion of a bell or  crinkle plastic in the body.  I love the scrappy look … Read More...

Cheri from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar guest blogs at Today’s Top 20 with a tutorial showing how to make this activity playmat for baby.  The spring scene incorporates textures and tabs and fringe for baby to explore while … Read More...

Amanda from We Are the Joneses recently announced Gabe’s Gifts, her year-long blanket drive for Project Linus to honor the child she lost through miscarriage.  She has pledged to make 12 blankets herself, and is collecting blankets from others in … Read More...

What to do with all of the bits and pieces of fabric left over from previous projects?  Why, stitch them together to make a new patchwork piece of fabric!  And then use that patchwork fabric to make a pretty throw … Read More...

Jennifer from The Life of Jennifer Dawn guest blogs at Sew.Craft.Create. (Made by Heidi) with a tutorial for turning a baby food jar into a pincushion.  You can stick the pins in the pincushion on the lid, and then use … Read More...

Care from Obsessively Stitching shares a pair of tutorials for making cupcake pincushions in two sizes.  The how-to for making a lifesize cupcake pincushion can be found in her guest post at Dollar Store Crafts.  A miniature version small enough … Read More...

Sew4Home shows how to make this hot cup cozy.  The ruffled fabric sleeve takes the place of the throw-away paper ones you find at the coffee shop.  This one is so much prettier, and earth-friendlier too!  Get the tute.… Read More...

Tifani from Calculating Chaos shows how to make a doll-sized snuggie blanket.  This is so stinkin’ cute!!  Now dolly can keep warm while cuddling, just like the big girls!  Go to the tutorial.

Sew Happy Geek shares a tutorial on her blog, Excell Crafts, for making a quilted gadget case.  Whether it’s a phone, a camera, or even an iPod, you can keep your gadget safe and sound in this pretty quilted sleeve.  … Read More...

Threads magazine shows how to shorten a zipper without it looking like you just chopped off the extra.  The secret is to remove the extra teeth.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Threads magazine]

Brenda from Therapeutic Crafting recently showed how to turn an old t-shirt into an over-the-head bib for a toddler.  Today, she shares two variations.  The first is how to make the neck of the shirt smaller.  After all, a bib … Read More...

Brenda from Therapeutic Crafting shows us how to turn an old t-shirt into a toddler’s bib that slides over the head.  This is such a practical bib style!  It’s easy to put on (and take off) the child.  The extra-long … Read More...

Kelly from Sewing in No Man’s Land shows how to make her Plump Pear Pincushion.  It’s pieced from scraps of fabric, so pull out the scrap bin and find those little bits of favorite fabric you’ve been saving.  Get the … Read More...

Hester Jane from Fun in the Making shows how to make these decorative tree softies from scrap fabric.  The trunks are made from bits of a tree branch.  A forest of these trees would make an awesome centerpiece or mantelscape!  … Read More...