Now that I have a part-time job at a thrift store I sometimes acquire random things…like 41 pant legs cut off ‘mom jeans’ (have no idea where the mate for the last pair ended up). I am now on a mission to come up with lots of projects I can use the recycled denim
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A year or so ago my dad bought me two vintage curtains at a thrift store. They were really cool – printed with different trains and train signs. I was saving them; trying to come up with just the right project. I had been considering them for a feature segment on a corduroy bag, but
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Over the years I have used fusible interfacing and fusible fleece in several of my tutorials. On each one I will get at least one comment asking if the interfacing can be left out of the project. Almost every time the answer is no. I made a sewing basics video all about interfacing and
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Easter is rapidly approaching! As a kid I loved getting an Easter basket full of goodies! My parents never bought pre-made gift baskets; they would fill our baskets with goodies and things they picked out specifically for us. Personalized gifts and baskets always mean so much because of the extra thought that goes
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In the past I thought of prairie points as a sort of lame sewing technique (don’t hate me…). Then a short time ago I was looking on flickr and saw someone using prairie points in their patchwork to make some really neat looking bags. So I decided to give them another chance. If
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