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Free pattern: Fabric masquerade mask

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Sew4Home shares a free pattern for making a masquerade mask.  The construction is super simple, with edges left raw, so you can spend your creative energy embellishing it up to fabulousness.  Add sparkles, lace, feathers, whatever strikes your fancy.  There’s… Read more ...

Tutorial: Sweatshirt iPad sleeve

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Fall is sweatshirt weather, for yourself and maybe your iPad too.  Alison from Adventures in Making shows how you can make an iPad sleeve out of an old sweatshirt.  This is such a great idea!  The sweatshirt fabric is soft… Read more ...

Tutorial: No-sew Rainbow Dash tutu costume

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Remona from The Stitching Scientist shows how you can make this gorgeous Rainbow Dash tutu costume, with no sewing required.  It’s made from a crochet tube top and strips of tulle, with purchased patches for the cutie marks.  I’m loving… Read more ...

Tutorial: No-sew fabric pumpkins

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You don’t need to know how to sew to make these stuffed fabric pumpkins.  Suzanne from Just Another Hangup shows how you can make them without sewing a stitch.  Give them twigs for stems and tie ribbons and scraps around… Read more ...

Tutorial: Halloween mummy softie

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Who’s your mummy?  Audrey Pettit shares a tutorial at Therm O Web showing how to make this adorable Halloween mummy softie.  Strips of raw edge denim give the mummy her wrappings.  You can tie her soft fabric hands into a… Read more ...

Tutorial: Halloween ghost button art

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Ashleigh from Living Off Love and Coffee shows how you can create this cute Halloween ghost button art.  There’s no sewing required, just buttons and glue.  It uses mostly white buttons, which I always seem to have an overabundance of… Read more ...