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Tutorial: Vintage textiles wall art

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Shannon from Madigan Made created this beautiful cross stitch wall art for her baby’s nursery out of a vintage table cloth.  She shares a tutorial showing how she did it.  The one table cloth was enough to make two matching… Read more ...

Tutorial: Stretch knit wrap watchband

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Caroline from Sew Can She shows how you can make your own stretchy watch band.  It’s made from stretch knit fabric and wraps twice around your wrist.  There’s no need to fiddle with a closure because the band will stretch… Read more ...

Tutorial: Scrap fabric napkins

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Jeska from Studio BeauVert shows how to make a pretty set of cloth napkins out of your scrap fabrics.  Her napkins are mini-sized – just 9″ square – to take advantage of smaller pieces of fabric.  The smaller squares are… Read more ...

Tutorial: Bias tape wrap bracelets

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Don’t throw away those awkward lengths of leftover bias tape, especially if it’s pretty patterned bias tape that you made yourself.  If you have about 14″ of it, you can use that bias tape to make wrap bracelets.  Tinsel &… Read more ...

Tutorial: Patchwork pumpkins

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Melony from Mel Designs shows how you can make these scrappy patchwork pumpkins.  The strippy patchwork is a good design to make use of your smaller scraps – pull out your scrap bin for this project.  They’d be cute worked… Read more ...

Tutorial: Mini pouf pincushion

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This mini pouf pincushion is a pretty place to park your sewing pins and needles.  Sew4Home shares a tutorial showing how to make one.  It’s a scrap-happy project using only small pieces of fabric. Each pouf uses eight 2″ x… Read more ...

Tutorial: Frayed fabric flower

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Emma from Emuse shows how to make a frayed fabric flower you can use to make pretty hair accessories or brooches.  They’re made with two layers of gathered fabric, with edges left beautifully raw and  frayed.  A button is the… Read more ...

Tutorial: DIY patched skirt

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Cathy from Trinkets in Bloom shares a tutorial showing how you can DIY a patched skirt like this one.  I’m loving the funky mix of patterns and the asymmetrical patching.  You’ll need a heavy fabric like a canvas or denim… Read more ...