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Tutorial: Chalkboard fabric placemats

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These placemats have a strip of chalkboard cloth across the top where you can write special messages or assign seating.  Marni from Haberdashery Fun shares a tutorial showing how you can make them.  They’re made from oilcloth and chalkboard fabric… Read more ...

Free pattern: Boys hooded sweatshirt

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Shauna from Shwin & Shwin shares a free pattern for making a boys hooded sweatshirt.  It’s perfect for fall weather, especially if you make it from a heavyweight knit.  Her free pattern fits her 7 year old son.  If you… Read more ...

Cricut Free pattern: Felt animal masks

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Erin from Sewbon shares a free pattern for making them.  They’d be fun for a little kid’s dress-up chest. Or, a child could wear them with a similarly colored sweatsuit as a Halloween costume.  She used her Cricut to cut… Read more ...

Tutorial: DIY Military Cardi

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Alexia from Lexi Made shares a tutorial at The Sewing Rabbit showing how to make this military-inspired cardigan.  The wide lapels and metal buttons take their cue from military uniforms.  Bias trim finishes the front edges and emphasizes the lines… Read more ...

Tutorial: Halloween bat mobile

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Sew4Home shows how you can make this Halloween bat mobile.  With button eyes and goofy fangs, the bats are cuter than they are scary.   Hang them from a tree branch or a simple wooden dowel.  You could also use them… Read more ...