Craft Gossip

 Sewing Stars Blog has a great tutorial for making the ladder stitch.  If you make pillows or softies, the ladder stitch is one of the most useful hand stitches to know.  It can be used to close the stuffing hole without…

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Need to make a quick baby gift?  Make & Takes shows how to embellish a cloth diaper to make the sweetest burp cloth.  No extensive sewing here, just some ribbon and bias tape.  Easy, easy!  See the tutorial.

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  In honor of the New Year, CraftStylish gives a tutorial on how to make three different types of zippered pouches: a flap, an overlap, and a zipper pouch.  Each type requires only a rectangle of fabric, which also makes this…

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  A flat-fell seam adds such a finished, professional look to a garment.  Heck, just saying the words “flat-fell seam” make me feel finished and professional.  CraftStylish shows us how to sew this very nice finishing seam.  See the tute here.

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  Owls and moose and squirrels, oh my!  Red Fish Circle gives a preview of her new Forest Fun fabric line from Robert Kaufman.  See her blog post about it here, or view the whole collection side by side on Flickr.

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  I think this may be one of the most unusual – and yet strangely most appropriate – teacher gift’s I’ve seen.  Katie Did made stuffies of her daughter’s teachers using Bubble Jet Set to print the images on to fabric. …

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    Start your New Year’s organizational kick with this purse organizer.  Find out how to make a super-simple purse organizer at The Giving Flower, and say goodbye to digging through crumbled grocery receipts and cracker crumbs to find your cell phone. …

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 So you’ve finished making that new coat (or shirt, or dress, or skirt) using a store-bought pattern, and it’s time to put away all your materials.  The scraps into the scrap bin, the scissors into the sewing box.  But what to do about the…

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  These little baby shoes are so stinkin’ cute!!!  We’ve all seen cloth baby shoes at the high dollar boutiques with high dollar price tags attached.  Michelle of Pins & Needles posts a tutorial on how to make them.  All it takes is…

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   Dana at Made shows off a really cool way to “dress up” a baby’s onesie.  A snip here, some elastic there, add a gathered skirt, and your onesie is now a dress with coordinating diaper cover.  Tres cute!  See the…

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  CraftStylish shows how to make a handy sewing kit to carry along in your purse.  It’s made from an old candy tin and other bits and bobs you probably already have laying around the house.  Get the tute here, and never leave…

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  Christina at The Sometimes Crafter shows how to make a little crochet hook case.  It’s cute enough to make me want to take up crocheting, though she’s quick to point out that it can be adapted for crayons, pens, or…

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  Tote bags are always handy to have around.  Everyone should have a few stashed in the coat closet or in the trunk of their car.  Vively in a Lively Manner shows how to make a handy tote bag that’s reversible.  Read…

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  BurdaStyle definitely saved the best for last with their Holiday Giveaway.  Today’s giveaway is a Singer Curvy Sewing Machine.  Seriously.  To enter, post a comment to their announcement by midnight EST tonight.  Go and enter now!!

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  If the thought of cutting a curve with your rotary cutter seems impossible, check out this video tutorial offered by CraftApple.  She uses a small plastic ruler as a guide, which she rotates as she cuts.  Very smooth!

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