Category: sewing

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Washi

Just made a quick little zippered pouch using Rashida’s new Washi fabric collection, inspired by patterned washi tape. I love this fabric, especially the bright colors here on the gray background. See all the patterns here.  Available from your local quilt shop! And Sew, Mama, Sew! is having a sale this weekend — take 15% off through the end of the day today.

And I don’t know about you, but I really love old school metal zippers. They feel and sound better, though I know the plastic ones may function more smoothly.

And be sure to check out Rashida’s new book, Zakka Style: 24 Projects Stitched with Ease to Give, Use and Enjoy from C & T Publishing. Rashida compiled the book with simple and sweet projects from some of your favorite designers.

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Quick Crafty Round-Up

Recycled Paper Basket from Brett Bara for Design Sponge.

Child’s Artwork Duvet Cover from A Thousand Words (via CRAFT).

Magnetic Me kid’s craft project from Creative Juice.

Criss-Cross Floor Pillow from Four Wise Monkeys for Sew, Mama, Sew!

Granny Square Quilt Block from Blue Elephant Stitches.

Starlings Quilt Block from Quilt Dad for Generation Q.

Robot Valentines from Lisa Storms.

Star Crossed Block from Don’t Call Me Betsy.

Aladdin Pants from Blooms and Bugs.

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Sewing Machine Cozy

Photo by Laura Malek.

Today I’m sharing this pattern for a sewing machine cozy. When writing 1, 2, 3 Sew, I wrote too much. I wanted to give you tons of projects to make! I’m all about good value. Initially, the book had 36 projects instead of the 33 that were published, and as painful as it was for me to cut, 33 is still a lot. We decided to remove a chapter with patchwork projects, but you’ll definitely see some of those ideas in the next book. For now, you can download the .pdf pattern for this sewing machine cozy. It’s a string-pieced project that can be adjusted to fit any size machine. Happy Sewing!

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1, 2, 3 Quilt

Exciting news! I’m working on a follow-up to 1, 2, 3 Sew. The new book will be called 1, 2, 3 Quilt and — you guessed it — it will be all about quilts, including quilted and patchwork projects! I’m excited to be working with Chronicle Books again. This book will be geared towards beginning quilters and those with more experience who are looking to try new designs and techniques.

I just finally finished up a couple of quilts I’ve been working on for a while (not for the book). One is the Crossed Quilt Block that I wrote about last spring and another is a baby quilt. On the crossed quilt, I made the quilting in a wonky pattern just like the crosses. I’ve got a new free motion machine that I’ve enjoyed working with and am loving the handmade look it creates and am enjoying the quilting process, but still not a fan of binding quilts. But I love the puckered look of a freshly washed quilt.

The book will include some very finished, manicured looking quilts as well as those with a more handmade aesthetic. So I’m curious — what kind of quilts do you like? What would you like to make? Modern, traditional — a mix? What techniques do you most want to learn? What are you afraid to try? I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions as I’m working on the book. The book will be available in Fall 2013!

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Top 100 Tutorials of 2011

There was lots going on in the craft world this year. So much that I can hardly keep up anymore, but I’ve tried to round up 100 of  my favorite craft and sewing tutorials of the year from around the internet. In the sewing category, I’ve included the free projects available from my book 1, 2, 3 Sew. Looks like I actually have a few more than 100 projects listed here. Go make some stuff this year! The projects pictured above are marked with an asterisk.

 

Sewing Projects

Quilting

Paper Crafts

Crafts

Be sure to check out my tutorial round-ups from 2010, 2009 and 2008.

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