We Simplify Crafting
We Simplify Crafting
My mother used to sew pants similar to this one for my dad and uncles. My dad and practically all the men of his generation and older,used them as underwear and pajamas. They were generally made from plain white cotton fabric with a drawstring. I remember how all would fold the bottom a tuck them …
After making some tank dresses, I decided to make some flowers with the scraps of fabric that I had left over.Kanzashi is a Japanese fabric flower making technique. I recently bought some Kanzashi makers made by Clover. I have always liked the sewing notions made by this company. If I had more space in my …
One can make these dresses by just adding some ruffles to the bottom of a child’s t-shirt but I had enough scraps to make these dresses.I also wanted to experiment with rolled hem feature on my new Juki serger. I bought some scraps of this tulle from the textile museum sale last year and had …
I just had to make this doll when I saw the pattern on lionbrand.com. So when my friend cleared out her mother’s stash, I had no reason not to make her. They had a knitted and a crochet version. I chose to do the crochet one and used a old odd sock to line it …
There always seems to be an annoying project that conveniently makes it to the bottom of the “TO DO” List.My sewing machine covers was on of those projects.So once again it was time to clear some of my fabric stash. I used the outer boxes as a template and added the seam allowance. For this …
Many years ago my sister and I bought mini rolls of this fabric at a factory.We bought one of each, the plain as as well as both prints in both colours and they threw in some extra odd pieces of a third colour.We didn’t realize how much fabric we really bought.Over the years I made …
I decided to clear out some of my stash.As many crafters,I have a collection of ”things I will use at some point in my life”. Since I’ve been doing more sewing recently, everything else sort of got stashed away somewhere.Well my sewing machine has gone in for a service which is a good enough reason …