Ginseng, you might recognize the word from energy drink cans or those special pills in the two by two packaging by the cash register at the gas station. But what is it exactly?

You have almost no cutting and only a few seams to sew with this pattern for a graceful negligee from the 1920s , courtesy of Ruth Wyeth Spe...

Use these country wedding ideas to plan the wedding of your dreams! We have everything from aisle runners to reception mason jar centerpieces!

What a lovely weekend it has been! Spending time with the people you love, doing the things we love. And too boot extra time to sew! Can’t beat that, right? So let’s start this blog pos…

OOPS! I think we forgot to pick a winner of Brett Bara's lovely new book Sewing in a Straight Line. So let's do that, shall we? This lovely new book features many simple and sophisticated

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Hexie Love! What a great hexagon chart pattern! I found this on Pinterest through the source link BUT can’t find the original source for it. If you know please let me know so I can add credit where cr

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Illustrated by Clarence Biers. “Child Life, the children’s own magazine” from November, 1934. Rand McNally & Company, Publishers.

Historic Costumes and How to Make Them Let’s face it, the people of the renaissance period had some of the most amazing clothes. I love the way this style of dress makes you feel fabul…

As well as making handmade Christmas ornaments for the tree, the children and I have made a conscious choice to try to make all of our Christmas gifts this year. It’s totally liberating to learn that we can make beautiful things. It takes time and effort, of course, but we have discovered that we have […]

Music Workstation FREE download – Note Toss. Learn how to create this DIY music center with a few easy materials. Your students will love playing this game in your classroom and you’ll love their excitement at reviewing note values. This workstation can be altered and used for math facts and reading too! Let’s get crafty!

Do you want to add smart accents to your afternoon frock? In this 1920 sewing tip from fashion columnist and sewing expert Ruth Wyeth Spears, you learn how to add tiers of tiny pleats (plaits) to your straight little frock. Sewing machines in those days had an add-on tool that created these tiny pleats easily. Today there are other tools, such as pleating tape and the Perfect Pleater tool, for example. Enjoy this inspiring tip!

In 1947, the seemingly everyday, innocent thoughts of a teen girl were published. But they weren’t so everyday: they were the thoughts of Anne Frank.

For this week's sewing 101, let's talk about facing. Facings are so easy to make and give your garment a professional finish, without a full lining. Of course you can face and line a garment,

Your party will be a hit with these teeny-tiny piñatas!

More spinning carousel fancy fold card fun with this card from the Stampin' Up! Les Shoppes Suite. I used the Designer Series Paper shops and accent pieces to decorate the card.

Music Workstation FREE download – Note Toss. Learn how to create this DIY music center with a few easy materials. Your students will love playing this game in your classroom and you’ll love their excitement at reviewing note values. This workstation can be altered and used for math facts and reading too! Let’s get crafty!

This is a tutorial for a classic Georgian up-do. Let’s begin. Step one ~ Start by parting your hair from ear to ear to the top center of your head. Step two ~ Using your fingers roll the fro…

How to make mayonnaise, German-style, for all your German recipes! Let Oma show you how to make this so easily with several different versions

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*This is a digital print-at-home reproduction of an original vintage pattern* Shorts pattern from 1954. Shorts with darts, tucks and turn up hem. Includes illustrated cutting and construction instructions. SINGLE SIZE: Waist 29", Hips 40” Please note that this is a reproduction of an original vintage pattern and thus markings and instructions may be more limited than those found in modern sewing patterns. Some additional notes have been made on the pattern in places to aid in constructions. Feel free to get in touch with any questions. Instructions included in any patterns have been scanned from the originals and as a result may have small or thick type. These patterns have not been tested to check for fit or ease of use, any potential flaws are a result of the original pattern which has been faithfully copied. Due to Etsy upload limits, instruction files have to be compressed potentially resulting in a loss of quality. This generally does not affect their usability but can have an impact where the type is especially small. If you require a higher quality copy of the instructions do not hesitate to get in touch.

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In this wonderful tip, Ruth Wyeth Spears describes a lovely decoration for a bridal gown. She provides an actual size template, which you us...

It's time for this week's favorite pins, y'all! Let's get started! I'm a sucker for guided reading tips and tricks and Mel's post do...

Good Morning, If you are new to this post, welcome, I am glad you are here. If you are a return visitors, I am glad you are back again. Please respect my time and my willing to share. If you made the origami bow using this tutorial and you have either one of these facebook, yahoo group, blog, twitter and others please share the link to this tutorial. Sharing is what making blogging fun. I saw this origami bow tutorial here. However, it was in another language and many of you needed a written tutorial plus pictures tutorial, so here it is. A 3" x 3" paper would make a nice bow for greeting cards. I used 4" square for the bows that I made for the cake here. A thin pattern paper would make a beautiful bow. If you are using double side pattern paper place the side that you want down. Mountain fold horizontally, crease well, then unfold. Rotate 90 degree mountain fold, crease well and unfold. you should have this. Flip the paper over, valley fold diagonally, crease well, and unfold. Rotate 90 degree valley fold, crease well and unfold. You should have this: 2 mountain fold lines that looked like a plus sign. And 2 valley folds that looked like an "X". Follow the creased lines and fold your paper like this Press it down and fold the "closed" side about 1/2" down like the picture below, crease well. Open your paper completely like shown. As you can see there is a small square in the center and the creased lines are not the same. You are going to mountain fold those lines or the small square. like this refold the paper like the 7th picture above except you will push the small square down like this you paper now should look like this with two layers. fold the top corners down like this turn the paper over and repeat you are going to open the paper, making sure your folds (small square) stays in place. it should look like this after you opened the paper. Turn the paper over, make sure you place your paper like in the photo. Cut at the fold (where the black lines are.) After the cut you should be able to move the two pieces up and down. These two pieces will be the bow tails. Fold the top piece down and fold the edges of the side pieces down like shown fold the other edges up and over lab the previous fold a bit. now working on the bow tails, fold the edges in then cut both pieces at the center where the black line is (make sure don't cut the small square on the bottom) then fold it like shown turn it over fold the bow tip under the center square cut the bow tails and you are done! It wasn't too hard right! I was in a rush putting this tutorial together so some phrase might not be clear but I was hopping the pictures will help. I just reopened my ETSY SHOP. I will be adding more new items soon. Thanks for looking. Helen

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