Posted in Kids Crafts, Sewing on Sep 22nd, 2008 17 Comments »
Coloring pasta is easy to do and gives kids something bright and beautiful to work with. Once the pasta is colored and dried, necklaces or charms can be made by stringing yarn.
Supplies for Colored Pasta:
Dried Pasta - any pasta works, but for stringing you will need tubed pasta. I used macaroni, penne, and wheels.
Food coloring
Rubbing [...]
Posted in Sewing on Jul 31st, 2008 8 Comments »
Now that “baby” is on the brain again, I’ve been enjoying all the great tutorials out there for handmade baby items. Every kind of baby gadget is available to make yourself and as my little princess is still sleeping quite a bit, I’ve been able to steal a few minutes here and there for some [...]
Posted in Sewing on Jul 22nd, 2008 31 Comments »
As my baby is quite the little spitter-upper, there’s a burp cloth in every room, on the car seat, the bouncer, and 2 in the diaper bag, Ugh, spit up. I love to use cloth diapers as they soak everything up, but instead of leaving them white and plain, I thought I’d let you in [...]
Posted in Holidays, Home Crafts, Sewing on Mar 14th, 2008 6 Comments »
Stuffed fabric eggs are fun to decorate the house with or hide for the kiddies to find.
Last year I saw this pattern for Stuffed Eggies over at Olive Juice and Co. and I finally tried my hand at a few. They are pretty easy to do. Mine are a little smaller, the size of real [...]
Posted in Sewing on Mar 1st, 2008 11 Comments »
These dainty little treats are a hit in the kitchen, a play kitchen that is. My kids puts these on a small tray I bought at the dollar store and bring them to us to taste. Follow my how-to for these fun Felt Sugar Cookies.
First, you will need felt, embroidery thread, needle, and batting. Using [...]
Posted in Quilts, Sewing on Feb 19th, 2008 21 Comments »
It’s finished! I am done with the quilt that I started almost a month ago. Here were the quilt colors from a previous post. Now they are put all together in a fun pattern that was easy and fun. I love it and think it turned out great, all vintage looking. I am naming it [...]
Posted in Quilts, Sewing on Jan 19th, 2008 12 Comments »
I have got the quilting bug and I’m ready to make a new quilt. As a self-taught quilter and sewer, I picked up a few things from Mom and I have taken a quilting class at one point, but mostly just giving it a try. I know fabric from a good quilt shop is much [...]
Posted in Sewing on Nov 9th, 2007 5 Comments »
When I became pregnant with child number one, I developed more of my craftiness. That motherly bug really got nestled in. I soon wanted to learn how to cross-stitch with my stitching hoop, needle, and thread. I bought one of those $1 kits at the dollar store, cross-stitching a Dinosaur. I kept it for a [...]
Posted in Quilts, Sewing on Nov 7th, 2007 5 Comments »
I have had my kitchen table for too long, but it is not quite time to replace it. So I needed to cover it and give it a little color. I wanted to make a fall placemat, but I also wanted to make a Christmas placemat for the next month. I decided to combine the [...]
Posted in Sewing on Aug 29th, 2007 5 Comments »
I was running and running and running. I really felt like Forrest this last weekend as my family and I ran the Hood to Coast relay race in Oregon. We ran 197 miles in the most beautiful areas of Oregon. From Mount Hood, through Portland, country roads, and finishing at the beach. It was so [...]
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