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Tutorial Tuesday: Halloween and Thanksgiving Place Settings

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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I’ve been working on some projects for BurdaStyle and teaching some classes at my local sewing shop and boy have I been having fun!  This weekend I taught 5 very talented and stylish ladies how to make my cute little stuffed pumpkin decorations!  (I’ll have pictures of their projects soon!)  One of my upcoming classes [...]

Tutorial Tuesday: Brad Attack!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Tutorial Tuesday: Brad Attack!

Make a Candy Corn Brad card and learn how to make your own brad colors!

Fabric Pumpkin Update!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

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Thank you so much everyone for all your comments! I appreciate all of them! I’ve worked out an alternate top for the fabric pumpkin pattern. This top involves much less hand stitching, well, actually none. If you don’t remember how to do a blanket stitch, or want to get your cute little pumpkins done faster [...]

Tutorial Tuesday-Quick Napkin Rings

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Tutorial Tuesday-Quick Napkin Rings

Alright, how about another super quick project? I found this awesome clear transparency “paper” from Hambly Prints (I love Hambly Prints!) and thought it would look really fallish with an orange background. Is fallish a word? Anyway, here are the directions: Cut a 12″ long, 1 1/2″ wide strip of the orange paper. Cut in [...]


1. Master the art of French macaroons
2. Sew a dress
3. Get my scuba diving license
4. Go somewhere warm to use my scuba diving license.
5. Find a perfect Go-To recipe for Pizza Dough
6. Sew a quilt
7. Make a piece of furniture
8. Learn Adobe InDesign
9. Master the recipe for Creme Brulee
10. Publish a sewing project in a magazine
11. Scrapbook/Blurb all our photos from Europe
12. Make some jelly using a pressure cooker
13. Print my own design on fabric & make something
14. Refashion a cardigan
15. Make salt water taffy
16. Find a Go-To recipe for delicious homemade bread
17. Make 5 projects from my sketchbook
18. Embroider something with my sewing machine
19. Self-Publish 10 new sewing patterns
20. Visit the Grand Canyon
21. Expand my french vocabulary
22. Make a stained glass window
23. Swim with dolphins
24. Find the perfect gelato recipe
25. Write one Thank You note a week
26. Learn How to Properly Handle a gun
27. Experience one new type of cheese every week
28. Finish checking off my list of states I've visited
29. Organize a service project
30. Go whitewater rafting