Entries Tagged as ‘Sew’

April 17, 2008

Celebrate Earth Day - Craft & Recycle!

Earth Day is just around the corner (April 22nd). In honor of Earth Day, I thought I’d highlight some of the crafts you can make from used material. Craft something that’s earth friendly today!
PAPER CRAFT IDEAS
Tealight Decoration using recycled cardboard tubing.
Magazine Bowl - a bowl made of magazine pages. Amazing!
Make your own Paper - Use [...]

August 14, 2007

Refashion your wardrobe!

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Wardrobe Refashion, if you haven’t you can read more about it here. I’ve just signed up for 2 months so I won’t be buying any new clothes for that period and will be attempting to refashion some of my clothes. I started with a basic jeans to [...]

July 12, 2007

Bias tape tutorial

please visit dqb-dqb.blogspot.com and watch a very humble tutorial on how to make your favorite fabric bias tape.
hugs, Dominique

July 6, 2007

Reusable Shopping Bag Challenge at Craftster

There’s a new challenge up at Craftster and it combines creation of a reusable shopping bag with stenciling. Leah was inspired by a project called Morsbags Sociable Guerilla Bagging wherein people get together to make reusable cloth shopping bags for themselves and to give to others. From the post:
“So your challenge is to create a [...]

June 28, 2007

It’s a Sunny Day!

When one of my favorite blogs, House on Hill Road, posted a picture of the adorable Sunny Day Dress and wanted to know if we wanted a tutorial, the answer was a resounding yes! I wanted to learn the technique for something for me, but then it dawned on me that I have two adorable [...]

March 28, 2007

Tutorial Try Out 4 - Owl by Moonstitches

After I found this tutowlrial on the 26th of March I could hardly wait to start on these very cute owls. I found a template for the pattern hereĀ it’s on the top of the page which I found very handy and together with Moonstiches excellent photo’s there was not a lot to write about. The [...]