With all the sewing I have been doing this week, there are a lot of little bits of fabric lying around. I decided to make fabric out of scraps that I’ll use for a project or two next week. It’s a great idea to consistently do this with your fabric scraps to avoid having a […]
Do Something You’ve Never Done Before {Craft Challenge, Day 119}
This is, in a way, a continuation of yesterday’s challenge to do something that scares you, at least for me. I wanted to keep playing with my serger, of course, so in a way just making something with my serger is a way to do something you’ve never done before for me. But I wanted […]
Do Something that Scares You {Craft Challenge, Day 118}
Is there something craft-related that scares you? Not so scary that you would never try it (that’s probably me with woodworking and welding, because I’m somewhat accident prone), but scary that you really wish you could do? I have two major activities in that category: sewing zippers and using a serger. I always wanted a […]
Make Something Again {Craft Challenge, Day 117}
Sometimes it’s fun to make something again that you have already made before. You can see the project in a different way than you might have the first time around, perhaps coming up with different methods or alternatives than you used before. Or maybe you do it exactly the same way because you enjoyed it […]
Bring a Project Out of Hibernation {Craft Challenge, Day 116}
I think (assume, hope) that all crafters from time to time have projects that get put in time out. Whether you made a mistake and you aren’t sure how to fix it or you’re frustrated, bored, annoyed or otherwise done with that project before it is finished, it gets exiled to some place where it […]
Mass-Produce Something: Simple Placemats {Craft Challenge, Day 115}
I’m on a bit of a sewing kick, and a food-related sewing kick at that, so when I thought of today’s challenge to mass-produce something, I quickly settled on making some simple placemats. I basically used the reversible placemat pattern from Rae Gun Ramblings, but it’s such a simple project you don’t really need a […]
Make Something Useful: Reusable Fabric Snack Bags {Craft Challenge, Day 114}
I have wanted to make reusable fabric snack bags for a long time now, but I always hesitated to do so because a lot of patterns call for oil cloth or PUL (the sort of fabric the outside of cloth diapers is made out of) for the inside, which makes them waterproof but is also […]