Patterns, Techniques, Articles, Blogs, and other resources to learn how to sew
Sara from Sew Sweetness, and author of Big City Bags
, has a free bag pattern for you. It’s her Arabesque Bag. The shape is simple, requiring only 3 hours to sew up. It still has nice finishes, though, with… Read more ... 
If you have a little girl that you sew for, there’s a book you need to add to your Christmas list.
It’s Sew Classic Clothes for Girls by Lindsay Wilkes. If that name sounds familiar, she’s the sewing goddess… Read more ... 
For the giveaway of an ebook copy of Big City Bags
last week, I asked people to tell me the strangest thing found in the bottom of a bag. I’m always amazed at the weirdness that lurks at the bottom… Read more ... 
I am thrilled to be part of Michaels’ Great Pumpkin Challenge! Second only to Christmas, Halloween is my favorite holiday!
For the challenge, Michaels sent craft bloggers some foam pumpkins, a hot knife to carve them, and a gift… Read more ... 
I was so excited when Michaels asked me to join their Back to School Adventure! I knew exactly what I wanted to do!!
Let me set the scene… It’s registration day at your school. You head up to school, kid(s)… Read more ... 
This is a repost of a review I recently published. It was intended to be part of the blog tour for the release of the book, but I kind of jumped the gun and posted it a few weeks early. … Read more ... 
I was so excited when I found out that Michaels was going to be carrying fabrics. They’re called Crafty Cuts, precut fabric pieces in a variety of colors and fabric types (cotton, canvas, burlap, faux fur, felt, tulle, and crushed… Read more ... 
Check out my review of Adventures in Pompom Land by Myko Diann Bocek! It’s over in our Giveaways section because there’s a giveaway at the end! Go read my review and leave a comment there to get entered to… Read more ... 
The fabric store isn’t your only source for sewing supplies. If you’re open to serendipity and aren’t looking for a specific item, you can find great deals fabric and sewing supplies at thrift stores and rummage sales. Abby Glassenberg from… Read more ... 
Last week I had two copies of Crafty Girls Talk
by Jennifer Forest to give away to Craft Gossip readers – one in printed format and one in a Kindle format. (Check out my review of the book here.)
Crafty… Read more ... 
Go check out my review of Crafty Girls Talk by Jennifer Forest. There’s a giveaway at the end!! Giveaway ends Wednesday, January 30, 2012. Go there now for the review and to enter. … Read more ... 
Sheri from Awesomesauce, and author of Confessions of a Refashionista
(check out my review here), shows how you can create a cool new bag for yourself using a pants leg and a vintage necktie. Go to her blog … Read more ... 
Confessions of a Refashionista
: Life on the Zig Zag
is a collection of 50 DIY fashion projects. It’s brainchild and self-published book by Sheri Pavlovic from Mensch T’s and the blog Awesomesauce. She’s pulled some of her most… Read more ... 
You probably know Marisa Lynch as the New Dress A Day chick, made famous by her blog where she chronicles a year of creating a new dress each day for a year, and doing it on a budget of a… Read more ... 
I’m a few days late with it, but I’ve got the names of three winners of the Stylish Dress Book by Yoshiko Tsukiori
. They are…
Commenter #55, Sissy, who said: I would like to start sewing for myself for … Read more ... 
