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Tutorial: Covered button hair ties

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Tutorial: Covered button hair tiesPam from Threading My Way shows how you can use covered buttons and fabric scraps to make hair accessories.  If you use the scraps from a handmade garment, they’ll match perfectly.  Or, just have fun pawing through your scrap bin… Read more ...

Tutorial: Triangle window zippered pouch

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Tutorial: Triangle window zippered pouchSimple, inexpensive gifts can become special when you package them in something handmade.  Like this zippered pouch that Kate from See Kate Sew made to package a sampler of inexpensive lip balms.  It has a triangle window on the front… Read more ...

Tutorial: Scrappy Happy Scarves

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Tutorial: Scrappy Happy ScarvesJennifer Jangles shows how to make her Scrappy Happy Scarves.  These just make me happy!  They’re colorful and scrappy and textural.  The scarves themselves are made from knit fabric, easy peasy.  The ends are embellished with petals of scrap fabric… Read more ...

Tutorial: Grandmas Kitchen Towels

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Tutorial: Grandmas Kitchen TowelsJen from Eat. Sleep. Make. shares a tutorial showing how to make these Anthropologie-inspired gingham and floral kitchen towels.  She calls them Grandmas Kitchen Towels and they certain invoke the feeling of days gone by and the comfort of grandma’s… Read more ...

Tutorial: Low-sew woven fleece cowl

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Tutorial: Low-sew woven fleece cowlLark Crafts shares a free downloadable project sheet showing how to make this woven fleece cowl.  It’s a low-sew project, requiring just one seam.  The texture is made by weaving fleece strips through the cowl.  Fleece won’t fray so there’s… Read more ...

Tutorial: Finishing leather edges

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Tutorial: Finishing leather edgesI’ve been seeing lots and lots of DIYs involving leather lately.  It’s a beautiful accent, but it does require different methods and tools than most of us sewers are used to.  Jessica from Running With Scissors shows several ways you… Read more ...

Tutorial: Easy faux fur vest

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Tutorial: Faux fur vestCaroline from Sew Caroline shares a tutorial for an easy-to-make faux fur vest.  You won’t need a pattern; just trace around a vest that fits you to get the shapes.  The front edge and hem are finished with a band… Read more ...