It's Sunday afternoon, it's raining and I have Split Pea Soup in the Crock Pot. That's the setting for a perfect afternoon. I'm sewing. I put finishing touches on 3 of these: A special friend of mine ordered one of these in purple at one of my craft shows. I really make more of my time when I make multiples, so I also made one for a gift and an extra one. What is it with little girls and purple. (this was another stash project...Yah!!) I also got the little dress on the left started for a model for Strawberry Patches. These are the cute candy fabrics they chose for me. So fun!! I had my granddaughter, Kobi with me for the afternoon on Saturday. After we got our nails all prettied up, we went to Strawberry Patches to pick out fabric for some purses from this new line they just got in. Kobi is the one who picked out her fabrics for her cowgirl skirt and wanted an animal print ruffle which I showed you here. I knew I wanted fabrics from a new line called Pam Kitty Morning by Pam McGinnis. Go here to see the whole line. I think there was 50 or more bolts of cute, cute, cute, fabrics...all coordinating in all colors. Kobi knows how I love Red and Blue, so we started with the Strawberry print and went from there. I just love this little alphabet print and it comes in many colors too. We had way too much fun. That was Saturday. Back to my perfect Sunday afternoon... I have Hallmark channel on and they are playing all Christmas movies. The music, pictures of decorated trees, Santa Clauses and family get togethers, really put me in the Christmas mood. Mr. SS is watching football and golf simultaneously. After making a Strawberry Banana Pudding Jello (a family favorite) and Corn Muffins with Honey Butter to go with the Split Pea Soup, we head up to the front house to share our meal and get a little grand kid fix. Yep!! My kind of Sunday...rain, sewing, soup in the Crock Pot, Hallmark, and getting to see Mr. SS (who generally work 6 days a week) relax and do nothing. Add to that dinner with 6 of my grands and I'm sighing with satisfaction. God is Good!! Life is Good!!
I’m a part of a few sewing groups online and the thing I see people avoiding most when it comes to sewing skills is buttons and buttonholes. As for the latter, many sewists avoid them because they’re genuinely afraid of them, and while I have a longer post in the works about how to overcome your fears and start sewing buttonholes like a pro, that’s not what I’m going to talk about today. Today I’m going to spill a secret about sewing on the buttons themselves.
I had a discussion with someone on Instagram about setting in sleeves and realized this is a sewing struggle I hear about pretty often. My mom taught me to properly set in sleeves when I was about 12, so I really don’t have a hard time with it, but I still find it fussy the traditional way, and it’s
Your dog will be barking for joy with this fabric toy dog bone!
This is one of those sewing skills that took some real trial and error before I felt confident enough that I’d get it right every time. I did conquer the knit neckband, though, and I have a tried and true method that now works perfectly, so I’m here to share it with you today! If you never quite know how to finish necklines and armholes of knits (that just means stretchy fabrics), this is a great solution for almost any knit fabric. There are of course other methods and I have a favorite way to “bind” the neckline of certain knit garments, but most of the time, especially for more casual clothes, I prefer a neck “band”.
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Switch Studio is a boutique fabric and sew upholster in Oakville, Ontario. Switch Studio enjoys taking old furniture pieces, giving them a little TLC and a whole lot of style by redesigning, refinishing, and reupholstering them into beautiful one of a kind pieces for their clients to love and cherish forever. Staci originally hired me to design a new logo but soon ended up having me design all of her collateral from fabric tags, gift certificates, signs, stickers, and will be working on her website this coming year.
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I have sewn no small number of doll clothes in my years of mothering girls and yesterday as I was working on yet more clothes with my girls for their 18" dolls, I was realizing that there are some things I've learned along the way to make sewing doll clothes fun and easy. I can whip them up pre
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Are you an all-out Easter decor type of person?? I traditionally haven’t been, but I felt like livening up the house this season, so starting with my Easter tree, I made a few new decorations. I recently updated my post on how to make a sock monkey and thought a sock bunny for Easter would be SO CUTE! I didn’t I’d find socks very easily, but lo and behold, I found a perfectly striped springy pair at Target on the first try.
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It's been about a month since I had an emoji pillow sewing class for kids and my own emoji pillow is sitting on my bed, making me laugh on a daily basis, so I thought it would be a shame not to share the templates I made for the class so you can make your own! I'm pretty sure this is what
