How to Sew a Straight Line
Learning to sew a straight line is important whether you want to sew clothing, quilts or craft items. This comes with lots of practice. Here is a great tutorial!
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See How a Sewing Machine Works – Video
The most frustrating thing about learning to sew is dealing with a sewing machine. Beginners will start out all excited about making something and then before they get very far their machine starts to have issues. The best way to tackle this is to understand how your machine works. All machines are
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Sewing Skirts Without a Pattern
One of my goals this year is to do more clothes sewing. Quilts and crafty projects come easy for me, but when it comes to clothing that is another story. I do so much better looking at something and figuring it out than trying to understand a pattern. Where we live there are many good thrift stor
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Meet My Youngest Sewing Class
Today was the kick off of our summer Domestic Classes. Today's class was a sewing class where the students made a pillowcase with french seams and a throw pillow slipcover; these are both great beginner projects. This was one of Alexa's first times to use the machine and she took off with it!
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Tank Top Totes
Watch the thrift stores and yard sales for tank tops that are in the color/style you want. Great Idea! Instructions HERE!
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Tea Towels
This is a great project for beginners to learn how to sew a consistent straight line. These would also make great shower gifts. Instructions HERE!
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Some Simple Sewing Projects
Thank you Angie for passing these along! Throw Pillows made from cloth napkins. Here is a great list with a BUNCH of easy to sew patterns. Be thinking Christmas gifts! Another favorite site of mine to find ideas and tutorials is Sew Mama Sew!
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Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs – Sewing Kits 4 Kids!
Here are a couple of young girls, who together with their parents, are meeting the need for kids to learn basic sewing skills, with a simple project; while at the same time they are creating a business for themselves. Here is my interview with them and be sure to check out the product review
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Our Sewing for the Home Class
Last Friday was our Sewing for the Home Class. These girls learned how to make slipcovers for throw pillows, fabric linings for baskets and pillowcases with French seams. There is nothing like a good attitude from a student to make the day go smoothly!!! These sisters are alread
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Sew Some Hair Scrunchies
Here is a real neat sewing project hair scrunchies! She also has a couple cute skirt tutorials HERE and HERE!
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Quilted Pillow Slipcover
Choose a pillow front. Here I have chosen 2 Nine Patch blocks to match THIS quilt. If you are going to quilt a top you will need to layer it, top, batting and backing, (note that the batting and backing are slightly larger than the top) then stitch as desired. Here I am
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Making Bibs and Burpcloths
At our church we LOVE families and we LOVE BABIES! Babies are viewed as blessings, not burdens. So very rarely do we have times with no new babies being born, Praise the Lord! I wish I could make a quilt or crochet a blanket for every baby born at our church and circle
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A Serious Ironing Board
Jeff helped me make this ironing board for my quilting. When you are pressing yards of fabric at a time a regular ironing board just doesn't do the job. It's really pretty simple to make one. Cut and screw a piece of plywood to an ironing board, be sure to center it. You can get the olde
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EASY Hanging Towel
Cut a piece of fabric about 16 inches wide. Fold it in half, right sides together. If you fold it as shown into thirds you can get three toppers made. Cut your towel in half, across the width. Fold each half into thirds at th
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From Dust Ruffle to Apron
We spotted a beautiful crib size dust ruffle at the thrift store! Olivia and I immediately thought APRON! All I really had to do was add the bib, straps and a pocket. I used the surger which saves a lot of time. When you see a
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Sewing Tutorials- Little Girl’s Dresses
Here are a few easy tutorials for little girl dresses/skirt. Twirly Skirt Sunny Day Dresses The Shirt Dress (Made from a man's dress shirt) Button Shirt Toddler Dress (Also made from a man's shirt.) Pick up some dress shirts from a yard sale or the t
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Sewing Cloth Napkins
Today we got together with another family to work on some homemaking skills. We got started with some cloth napkins. I love cloth napkins!!! They really add a touch of class to any table and they save money. This is my sweet friend Robin working on her napkins. My other friend Trish gave me a ser
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Make It, Give It or Sell It – Rice Packs
You know those cold winter nights that you just can not get warm? Rice packs are the answer!All you have to do is pop them in a microwave for 3 minutes, flip them over and heat for another 3 minutes ( do not over heat). They stay warm a long time. I love to use mine when my legs ache or if I have a
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Make It, Give It, or Sell It – Receiving Blankets
We are blessed to have LOTS of babies in our circle of friends. I am always looking for ideas for gifts to make and give that are nice, yet not extreamly time consuming. These receiving blankets are easy to do, and can be really cute! You could make several in a day or two to have on hand for gifts.
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Make It, Give It or Sell It – Bottle Cap Pin Cushions
Bottle Cap Pin Cushions These are easy to make, pretty and useful too! They also make good little gifts for aspiring needlecrafters! Because we do alot of quilting around here, and hopefully we'll attempt apparel sewing this year, these are handy to have on hand...lol!!! I made several of the
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Pumpkin Tutorials, Make Your Own Pumpkin Spice
MyFrugal Friday tip is the whole week of PUMPKIN RELATED information this week! Look back over the post from this week and read the comments,there are some neat ideas in there! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY for our Pumpkin Potholder giveaway! Leave a comment
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