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100+ DIY Things to Make For The Beach

June 4, 2016 | Leave a Comment

 

Do you love the beach? Are you constantly dreaming of the sandy toes and salty air? Then you you’ll love this round up of over 100 tutorials of things to make for the beach. Whether you want to carry all of your things in one big bag or just want to cover up from the sun, these free patterns and tutorials will be the perfect way to enjoy your time in the sun.

Do you love the beach?  Are you constantly dreaming of the sandy toes and salty air?  Then you you’ll love this round up of over 100 tutorials of things to make for the beach.  Whether you want to carry all of your things in one big bag or just want to cover up from the sun, these free patterns and tutorials will be the perfect way to enjoy your time in the sun.

See all tutorials here. 

Filed Under: Round Ups Tagged With: beach, round up, sewing, tutorials

Pillowcase Inspiration

June 1, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Chance are sewing a pillowcase was one of your very first sewing projects.  The nature and ease of sewing pillowcases lends itself to those learning to sew but it’s a project that also brings character to any room.  And they are SO addicting once you get started.  Kids and adults alike would be thrilled to look upon their favorite fabrics as they drift off into dream land. But, did you know there were so many different ways to sew pillowcases?  Twenty, to be exact!

ways to sew pillowcases

Check out all 20 of these different ways to sew pillowcases.  You’ll be amazed at how beautiful and varied these are.  I just can’t choose which one is my favorite.  Can you?

20 Ways To Sew Pillowcases

Filed Under: For Home, Round Ups, Techniques, Tutorials Tagged With: bedroom decor, pillow, pillow sham, pillowcase, round up, sew for home, sewing tutorial

How to Use Heat Transfer Vinyl

May 21, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Everything you need to know about using heat transfer vinyl also called iron on vinyl. Perfect for embellishing your home sewing projects

Can’t find the perfect fabric for your project? No worries you can use heat transfer vinyl to MAKE your dream fabric. If you haven’t tried this stuff, it’s washable vinyl that you can iron onto fabric. You can make the ultimate fan inspired creations all the way to sporting necessities. This little technique is one of my all time favorite tricks to sprucing up my handmade creations.

Learn How to Use Heat Transfer Vinyl at Rae Gun Ramblings!

Filed Under: Techniques

Print on Fabric

May 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Learn how to print on fabric from your home computer. It is easier than you think. The Sewing Loft

Did you know that you could print directly on fabric from your home computer? That’s right, you can! The Sewing Loft has mapped out 5 easy methods for you to print fun notes, labels and more onto your fabric of choice right from your desktop. It is much easier than you think.

Filed Under: Techniques, Tutorials Tagged With: fabric, labels

15 Easy DIY Gift Card Holder Tutorials

May 7, 2016 | Leave a Comment

15 awesome DIY gift card holder tutorials. Quick and easy tutorials perfect for any celebration or holiday.

This time of year I always seem to be needing gifts. Whether it’s for mom or dad, your favorite teacher, or the random birthday boy or girl, some times I just want to give a gift card. Even though I know they will be able to get something they absolutely love, it feels a bit impersonal to me so I always love to make a fun gift card holder. Check out these 15 awesome DIY gift card holder tutorials and as a bonus many of them can be used after the gift giving is over as a fun little pouch.

 

Filed Under: Round Ups

Half Square Triangles Cheat Sheet

May 4, 2016 | Leave a Comment

If you like the look of quilting, you’ll love HST’s.

Learn different techniques to make half square triangles fast and accurately.

With a few simple tricks, these little squares of goodness are a snap to make and The Sewing Loft has broken it down for us. Learn different techniques to make half square triangles fast and accurately.  Just think of all the ways you can use up leftover fabric scraps with these pretties.

Filed Under: Quilts, Techniques Tagged With: how-to, quilting, sewing tips

How To Create the PERFECT FABRIC!

May 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Can’t find the fabric you want ANYWHERE? You can design your own! Here are a bunch of fantastic tutorials for filling the void yourself, based on how you want to go about making it. Digital prints, hand printing, hand painting and dye are all options for getting exactly what you want in a design. You can also save a bundle on by choosing an inexpensive base fabric and customizing yourself. The sky’s the limit!How to create the perfect fabric - when you can't find what you want available!

Check out these resources with step-by-step tutorials:

  • Print your own fabric with a digital design via Spoonflower – useful for both fabric and for labels and especially easy if you decide you want to create a LOT of it or tweak a design
  • Create your own design withyour own custom block prints
  • Use pre-made blocks and tape to make a striped print
  • You can also block print with bleach by creating your own stamp pad and stamping a darker fabric
  • You can dye fabric with ice for fantastic results
  • Or tie dye with the Shibori method to get a more geometric effect
  • Paint your own material with a watercolor effect
  • Use a combination of paint and markers to create your fabric, especially fun for a collaborative project

Have you found other tips and tutorials that helped you? We’d love to hear about them in the comments!

Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: bleach, block, design, diy, dye, fabric, geometric, how-to, ink, print, printing, shibori, stripe, tips, tutorial

Thread Spool Holder Ideas

May 1, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Whether  you are a creative whirlwind or a structured plan type sewist, an organized sewing room goes a long way to helping increase productivity.  If you can easily find the things you need, you’ll get more done in the limited sewing time you have.  Any sewing notion organization that shows off all of those beautiful colors is always a hit for me.  Have you ever given thought to how your thread spools are organized?  Do you use a thread spool holder?

Thread Spool Holders

Grab your coffee and get ready for some truly inspiring ways to organize your thread spools.  Click over to Beatnik Kids to see 15+ Thread Spool Holders that will have you all geared up to organize your sewing supplies.

Filed Under: For Home, Round Ups Tagged With: sewing notion organization, sewing room inspiration, thread, thread spool holders, thread spool organizers

Scalloped Pajama Shorts from a Vintage Sheet

April 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Sew Pajama Shorts with an easy tutorial and free pattern from Melly Sews

Vintage sheets with their prints and perfectly washed softness lend themselves well to sewing pajamas. Make these pretty and feminine pajama shorts with a free pattern and tutorial from Melly Sews. Go here to get the pajama sewing tutorial. 

Filed Under: For Women, Free Patterns

How to Sew Reversible Placemats

April 21, 2016 | 1 Comment

Free pattern for how to make reversible placemats. Great DIY sewing tutorial

I love teaching people how to sew. My default newbie sewing project is a basic banded skirt. But, you can only sew so many skirts and what about the boys that want to sew? These DIY reversible placemats are my new favorite newbie project because they give lots of straight line sewing practice and build on those first skirt skill with turning fabric right side out and top stitching.

Get the FREE pattern and learn how to sew reversible placemats!

Filed Under: For Home, Tutorials

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