What Do You Want to Make Today?
Here’s an easy way to sew a button on a coat so it will stay on no matter how much you bundle up underneath. It’s a good thing I’m a knitter, because there’s nothing I like more than a big, bulky sweater, indoors or out, for much more of the year than most people require […]
OK, I know sewing on a button doesn’t sound very creative, or challenging, for that matter. And maybe it’s not. But the very act of sewing, even mindless sewing like sewing on a button, is meditative, and who says the thread you use has to be the same color as the fabric you’re sewing into […]
With a snow day looming Sunday night, I knew I wanted to set up some activities for the girl so that she’d have some fun things to work with that weren’t the same things she’d been playing with while snowed in all day Sunday. Because St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, and we have lots […]
After yesterday’s tragic sewing accident, I was left with the need to come up with something else to fit the “notions” theme of this week’s Iron Craft challenge in a hurry. I’d already been thinking of a plain picture frame that made it’s way into our house in one gift or another. I originally thought […]
This was one of the ideas I had for a greeting card, but as I mentioned, I don’t really send greeting cards, but I do give presents, so I decided to attach this little snowman to a gift tag instead. This is a crazy-simple project, really cute and fast. The longest part is waiting for […]
In the first part of this series I looked at some of the busy bags that we received as part of a toddler busy bag swap and gauged my daughter’s reaction to them. Since we managed to play with a few more of them last night, I’ll be doing the same today, then I’ll move […]