Do you want to refresh the look of your pillows and learn a fancy seam technique? The French seam used in these envelope pillow cover means there are no raw edges, even on the inside cover’s inside. The look is professional and neat. No stray frayed ends. Not that they are a huge deal since
I am soooo excited about this project!! I really suck at sewing. My sewing machine completely freaks me out. I get way stressed when I think about threading a bobbin, and a gather stitch??? Forget it. Nuh – uh. Well guess what… I threaded my bobbin and turned an old T-shirt of hubby’s into a
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{Originally shared at Sew Woodsy} Today I will share with you my easy burlap tag embellished fabric star ornaments. Supplies: White fabric; I used leftover tea towel scraps Fabric scissors Burlap Printer Sewing machine or needle and thread eyelets and eyelet setter string or twine for hanging Pencil for tracing template Instructions: You
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These Christmas stockings are made from canvas tea towels from Target, the same towels I used to make this stenciled pillow a few posts ago. Two of the towels made all seven. If you are looking for a quick, easy, inexpensive sewing machine project for your stockings this year, you are in luck. Supplies: Tea
It is my first ever sewn pillow!! I am proud, being that I have used a sewing machine very little. This is made from a tea towel I picked up at Target, along with a 14 inch pillow form. I created a LOVE JOY PEACE text in Photoshop and cut it from vinyl with my
I am soooo excited about this project because I dusted off the sewing machine and stitched ribbon and paper triangles together for this Christmas bunting. I got a lovely Martha Stewart Crafts delivery yesterday, and couldn’t wait to make something out of this gorgeous holiday patterned paper. Using my cricut, and this template, I cut
Wow, I “made” a pillow. You may have noticed, there aren’t sewing projects here at SBLC. I don’t do that. I think about doing it occasionally, but it doesn’t happen. Here is a project, sans sewing, that includes printing on canvas drop cloth material, painting a pillow with fabric paint, and attaching fabric to fabric
My first quilted wall hanging, inspired by an organization that has helped millions. This was fun and easy. Debbie hooked me up with a bunch of old fabric scraps and I was on my way. I made the circle triangle in the center in photoshop, then printed it on fabric made for inkjet printers. I
So here it is. Not bad for a first time. It only took 5 days from beginning to end. And that included touching a sewing machine for the first time. I got frustrated at some point, because the in almost all of the instructions I found during this process really emphasized perfection. I was getting
I finally made the jump from non sewing chic to proud (yet clueless) Singer Esteem II owner. I have tons of fabrics, because I like to decoupage various objects with funky prints. Don’t even get me started on all the cool things you can do with fabric that do not involve sewing. So I find
