This knock off is based on an ornament I saw in a Pottery Barn store, but I can’t find it in the catalog or online, so you’ll have to take my word for it. It was basically a wooden disk with an initial printed in the center, glitter around the edge of the disk, and…
Patchwork Dish Towels: A Tutorial
aka: The One Where I Make the Mistakes so You Don’t Have To. (you’re welcome) Happy Monday everyone! How about we make some dish towels today? But these aren’t just any dish towels. They are super duper patchwork, reverse applique, seasonal, mistake-free dish towels! For 1 dish towel you will need: – 2 16×24 inch…
Kid-Friendly Patriotic Table Runner: A Tutorial
Do you like how I called this “Kid Friendly” as a euphemism for “embarrassingly simple”? This is how it goes folks – when I sew, I don’t mind complicated and technical, when I no-sew, it’s going to look like a 3rd grade project, at best. I also don’t know whether this is a true “runner”,…
Valentines Day Dress
Wow, that was a creative post title, huh? As Susan mentioned in her post about her daughter’s Valentine’s Day dress, we both used this tutorial again, with even more variation. I’ll save my raving since I’ve said it all before. Just go make this pattern. You won’t regret it. And so you can see all…
Valentine’s Day Dress and Mutual Admiration Society
Adrianna started a dress craze around here. We’ve only done 127 posts on it already. It started when she tried this tutorial. And then she came to my house and copied the pattern she had made for Z for me. We talked about fabric and picked two from my stash. And while I was distracted…