Showing posts with label Sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sewing. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Crafting 2025: Bib

 There’s nothing like the New Year to inspire ideas for new craft projects and to think dreamy thoughts of finishing works long in progress.

This should be simple, right? I’m doing the bib in green on the package in pink instead, and without the tricky appliqué dog head. Adorable.



Friday, August 16, 2024

Five Things Friday August 16, 2024

 Yikes, August is half over! Summer is almost gone. My garden is a jungle.  Hope you’re having a good week. 😁

One: For all of my list making, some days I just don’t accomplish much at all.  I don’t even have a cat to blame.



Two:  Remember when your kids were small and you had those little cooking irons shaped like Mickey Mouse, or, say a dinosaur?  My pancakes using them never looked like either thing.



Three:   I can’t really type, so when I look up from the keyboard and see what Autocorrect has done to simple words, I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.  Whoa whoa never just hit send.




Four:  There may be no hope for me. I have a self threading sewing machine and it does the bobbin for you too while serving you dinner. Can’t make myself do it.



Five:   I didn’t learn to drive till I was 19. Oddly, I didn’t even want to drive. When I hit the road to learn, I was so dangerous. I drove onto someone’s lawn to avoid going on a busy road. Clever.  I passed some poor person on a hill and just gunned it to get past them, and closed my eyes so I didn’t have to see if there was an oncoming car. I drive much better now!  Just think, though, if I had had access to something like this!






Tuesday, December 25, 2018

A Mitten Garland!

Here's a bit of a trail!  These mitten garlands are adorable and worth a few clicks to get to the how to.  It makes me feel like going out and seeing if there are any Christmas fabric scraps to make some, and we know I can't sew.


Via Diary of a Quilter




Here's the blog post from Down Grapevine Lane with notes on how she made her adorable garland.


https://www.downgrapevinelane.com/2018/07/winter-tales-blog-tour.html




The original mitten pattern for felt mittens is here https://nanacompany.typepad.com/nanacompany/2013/11/diy-felt-mitten-pattern.html



Tuesday, December 1, 2015

First Time Sewing: The Absolute Beginner's Guide

I found this title recently, and think it may be The One which will teach me to sew.  I have another book on beginning sewing, but this one is truly perfect.

It has a nice diagram of the machine and each part.  Two pages of various sewing feet and what to use them for.

Nice pictures of various types of hems and stitches.

A sewing pattern talking about everything inside and outside of the envelope.  How to lay the pattern on material, pin it down and cut it.

I appreciate the step by step so much. Many books assume everyone knows these things, but alas, not I.

A nice section on hand stitches, which made me look at the book in the first place.

The very first project is a rectangular tablecloth, how beautiful and practical.  All of the projects are things I'd love to make, rather than 20 pillow variations (though there is a pillow.)

The book is by The editors of Creative Publishing International.   I'm not familiar with them, but am happy with their work.