Thank you Grace for brightening my morning and reminding me that even in fall, the sun shines. This morning Grace from Design Sponge posted a video about making sunprint fabric. I had no idea such a thing existed. Here is the video You can buy the fabric online here. I am going to call our [...]
Archive for the ‘Sewing’ Category
Sunprint Fabric
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing, tagged bag, dyeing, fabric, sew, sun, sunprint, tote on October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Zippers! Zip Pouch
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been sewing like crazy this week. It started on Sunday night. I made my favorite kind of reusable grocery bag. Next week, I’ll talk about that. This week, I installed my first zipper. Maybe it’s something small, but to me it was as daunting as installing a toilet. Turned out perfectly. Despite the [...]
Baby Blocks
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These plush blocks were the perfect way to use some of the million squares I cut for a defunct baby quilt project. I got totally frustrated with the quilt once I realized that my cute little animal print was directional and the bears weren’t going to be facing the same way. That was a deal [...]
Expectations– unmet
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had great expectations for this blog. I thought it would be the perfect place to organize the patterns I use and the sites I love. Instead, I felt weighed down by the prospect of photographing all my work and writing about it. So I am going to try to this again… but with lower [...]
New Tank Top
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing, tagged clothes, cotton, cotton sew, japanese fabric, sew, Sewing, tank top on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I learned a lesson about fabric. Always buy it… especially if it is on sale. I don’t think sewing is going to be a hobby that I give up anytime soon. Because sometimes I am just too picky to buy things off the rack. I want things to look a certain way, which often requires [...]
As promised… Remaking Altering Clothes
Posted in Sewing, tagged alter, hem, pants, recycle clothes, remake clothes, sew, Sewing, workout clothes on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So sometimes the simpliest things can make you happy. For me, hemming this pair of workout pants was just one of those things. It made me happy. Partially because I have had these pants for years. They were always a super awkward length: Then, in less than 15 minutes and for zero dollars, those pants [...]
American Apparel Skirt
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing, tagged clothes, sew, skirt on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love my American Apparel skirt. I wear it every other day. And besides an embarrassing story involving this skirt, no slip and too much wind…this skirt is perfect. Well, I was browsing online and found an almost identical free sewing pattern. I was so excited that I just had to drop everything and sew [...]
Sew Easy Project – Tote Bag
Posted in Homemade crafts and gifts, Sewing, tagged bag, homemade gift, pattern review, sew, tote on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am new sewer. But an enthusiastic, over-producing sewer. Luckily, people gladly take my sewing projects. For Katelyn’s birthday, I made a simple tote. It was using a pattern from Sew Easy. This book has some nice projects in it. Normally, craft books only have one or two projects that I want to do in [...]
