How many times have you made placemats or a table runner, and then thought it would be so lovely to have matching napkins. Truly, fabric napkins on the serger are very fast. You can make a whole set in under an hour. There is a trick to getting perfect serged corners, and I'll show you …
Category: Sewing
Sewing Chatelaine
This chatelaine is so easy to make with grosgrain ribbon, a couple of rings, a bit of stitch witchery and an afternoon of fun sewing. I took a little longer with mine because I like to embellish things. I actually made this a long time ago, but now I have a blog to share it. …
Fall Door Panel and fabric sale
I love autumn, and generally cannot resist autumn themed fabrics or things like this door panel with fall decorations of leaves and pumpkins. I had to have this panel, but to get it I had to buy the whole bolt of door panels and I don't need this many! I have them for sale at …
Rayon Challis Projects
Recently I pulled out a bunch of stuff to take to a sale, and among the fabrics were several pieces of beautiful rayon challis. I used to make a lot of my clothes, and these fabrics have been around my closet for years. I kept thinking I would sell them, but no takers when I …
Rayon Challis Three Season Skirt – Using your blind hem stitch
A few days ago I pulled out this pretty yellow rayon challis from the stash and made it up into a simple elastic waist skirt. A couple of techniques were used on this skirt, which made it go together in about one hour. Yep, that fast! First I changed the serger thread color from the …
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Matching Ironing Pad – Part 2
The next sewing day, I finished off the quilting on my portable ironing pad. If you missed part one, click on Matching Ironing Pad Part One. I used Signature thread in a dark grey top and bobbin. It looks good on the heat resistant fabric, but also blends with the print.It is fairly centered, not …
Matching Ironing Pad
I guess I just can't leave things alone. I had some of the heat resistant fabric left over from recovering my ironing board, and making a few potholders. It was a large enough piece to make a pad to carry for using my little Clover iron, or maybe my little travel iron. And I still …
More Sewing Goodies
Now that I have the Sewing Kit finished, I had fabric left. Those scraps were begging to be used for more matching accessories, so I made a few more quickie projects. The needle book is made like a tiny quilt, folded over, with a wool felt 'page' to keep the needles on. It has a …
How to Use Fussy Cut Templates
I was excited to be asked to review the Fussy Cut Templates from Prym for Fave Quilts. They did not pay me for this review, but I did get to keep the templates. They sent me several sets to try and I am a believer! I have done a few fussy cut quilts, most recently …
Sewing Kit, part 2
Getting back to this kit, I figured out what I needed to do. I had to pin the base all around to one layer of Timtex to hold it tight while I added the pockets, thread holding elastic, and scissor holding elastic with clear vinyl point guards. I sewed through only one layer of Timtex …
From My Carolina Home 