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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
Sewing Kit
Looking over the supply list for a class I am going to take, it had a lot of little things that could easily get lost in a big bag. Things like marking pencils, seam measure, seam ripper, thimble, thread snips, and well you get the idea. I remembered I had a pattern for a sewing …
Lace Edged Skirt Re-fashion
This skirt has been in my closet for some years. I did wear it a few times years ago, but even at the maxi length it is designed to be, I still had to roll the waist to get it shorter. This year I decided to do something about it. Lace is back in a …
How to Clean and Care For Your Older Sewing Machine
I have several old workhorse machines in the sewing room. As I was taking one apart a day or so ago, it occurred to me that this is such an easy thing to do, but most sewing enthusiasts are scared of it. Truly, if your machine is older, out of warranty, you have nothing to …
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Quilted Sewing Machine Cover
I have lots of sewing motif fabrics and wanted to do a quilted sewing machine cover for my main machine. I wanted something that looked quilty. So, I designed this one to integrate flying geese, a quilt square and lots of prints. Begin by constructing a panel 18-1/2 inches wide by 27 inches long. I …
Spring Floral Wall Hanging Wool Work
One of the challenges this year for our local quilting group is a President's UFO challenge. We are to list four projects that are in progress or not yet started, that we agree to finish before February 2015. One of mine was to make a Spring Floral Wall Hanging. I knew we were going to …
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