Tater Tots and Jello has a fun post on how to repurpose your old jewelry. In this tutorial you will use burlap bangles as the base for old brooches or elements from old jewels. The end result is a funky and fun way to start wearing your old hand-me-down costume jewelry again, but with a modern twist.
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Tutorial: Repurpose your jewels with burlap
Jenn from Compulsively Creative guest blogs over at Sew Much Ado with a tutorial for making your own doublers for your cloth diapers. Doublers are extra cloths that you insert inside a cloth diaper to increase the absorbency. They’re easy to make and come in handy for night time diapering. Go to the tutorial . [photo from Compulsively Creative ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , cloth , diaper ,…
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Tutorial: Make a doubler for a cloth diaper
OK this may be obvious but all you need to do is grab a rock and paint it using the fun tutorial found over at Kaboose . Now “recycling” a rock is well, I suppose a bit of a stretch here but after St.
Last week I showed how to make an A-line skirt for a Groovy Girl. Now let’s make the strappy top to match. This little top is a quick sew and can be made out of smallish scraps of fabric. Dig through your scrap bin and find the material for a new top for your Groovy Girl. What you need: –scrap of fabric 4″ x 10″ –approx.…
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Free pattern: Strappy top for a Groovy Girl
I recently had the pleasure of using several products from That Girl’s Bath and Body , a small family-owned business featuring natural homemade bath and body products. That Girl’s products are a unique bath and body care line combining natural ingredients and the finest essential oils and extract nature has to offer.
I recently had the pleasure of using several products from That Girl’s Bath and Body , a small family-owned business featuring natural homemade bath and body products. That Girl’s products are a unique bath and body care line combining natural ingredients and the finest essential oils and extract nature has to offer
Click over to The Purl Bee to find out how to make these lovely fabric napkins for spring. The ric-rac peeking out of from the edges adds just the right touch.
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Tutorial: Fabric napkins with ric-rac trim
Trixi from Coloured Buttons shows how to make this Baby-in-a-Pouch. It’s a soft doll with a right-sized fabric pouch. Little hands can take the doll out and put the doll back in over and over to their delight. Go to the tutorial . [photo from Coloured Buttons ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , baby-in-a-pouch , baby , pouch , soft , doll , toddler , activity
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Tutorial: Baby-in-a-Pouch small soft dolls
If you find yourself in Brooklyn you must wander over to Urban Glass , a fantastic glass facility. I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out there a couple of times and find the place just awesome. I did a glass bead show there ages ago and the last time I was in Manhattan I had to go over and just be…
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Urban Glass – Let’s go to Brooklyn Tonight
My Creative Stirrings has the how-to for making a large diaper changing pad with a wipe-clean surface. She gets the wipe-clean fabric from a discount tablecloth. One tablecloth yielded 4 changing pads. Brilliant!! Go to the tutorial . [photo from My Creative Stirrings ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , wipe , wipe-clean , baby , changing , diaper , pad , tablecloth , large , vinyl
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Tutorial: Wipe-clean changing pad from a tablecloth
