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Tutorial: Make this fabulous, decadent crazy quilted stocking ornament

This is a quick and fun ornament for the holidays. Obviously it’s quicker if you’ve done crazy piecing before, but if you haven’t it’s a great place to start. Enjoy!

Materials:

One piece of muslin – larger than the template (print out) One larger (a little larger than the template) piece of velvet or [...]

Starting the new year a little bit early

I know it’s a couple weeks early, but today begins the beginning of the end or the beginning of a new beginning (however you want to look at it). I got my invite to the Bead Journal Project blog (yay! Can’t wait!) and so you can follow that blog if you’re interested in everything [...]

Treasure to Trash to Treasure

****NOTE***** Do you ever write a post and for some bizarre reason, NOT post it? This is one of those. It’s OLD (April 08) but honestly kind of a cool post and both bits of info are still interesting. So, here goes:

I think this post goes under the “really really dumb people” catagory, but [...]

I’m Sewing Mama, I’m sewing!

I’m up late, stressing about life and yet updating my sidebar with my projects I’m working on. Oddly, with too much going on, I’m actually finding a lot of comfort in digging out some old projects and completing them!

The baptism pillow is in the mail (hooray) and I dug out my daughter’s kitty quilt [...]

The easiest rose – Silk Ribbon tutorial

ShareYou all can thank my friend Anne (waving to Anne) for this post – although I had been planning it for sometime, she needs it for a dress she’s working on. I have stalled around trying to find out the original source of this flower, my friend Rhonda taught it to me and she was [...]