Flickr Round-Up

I recently spent some time looking through the photos over in my Flickr groups and I’m so excited to see you making things! The photos above are:

Kids’ Drawing Case by JulieFrick. You can find the tutorial here.

Blockhead Bunny from Sosae Caetano, made from my pattern in 1, 2, 3 Sew.

Little House Pouches, made by Sandrina Kay. The tutorial for these is here.

Little Red Riding Hood from katiemartin1, made from my tutorial found here.

Clothesline Caddy from Dakota Gal, made from this tutorial.

Goose made by Princess Bubblegum. This was one of my first tutorials, found here.

There are also lots of superhero capes, water bottle slings and ribbon wreaths. Seeing people make things from my patterns and tutorials is perhaps the biggest reward for me as a blogger and a reminder that people actually read this blog. This is good to know as I am thinking about making some changes to this site. I’ll still be working on finishing up this book over the next month, but after that I really hope to get back to creating things that I can show you. I know you all love tutorials and I hope to give you a few here and there, but I realize that if making things starts to feel like work, I won’t be able to make anything interesting. Anyway, more on that soon.

1, 2, 3 Sew Projects

I’m not sure that I ever did a round-up of all the free projects available from 1, 2, 3 Sew. Six free projects — five from the book, plus a bonus project that we couldn’t squeeze into the book. Photos above and below by Laura Malek of Felt Jar.

Patchwork Sewing Machine Cozy, free project on the Chronicle Books website.

Eyelet Headband on CRAFT.

Lunch Sack on Sew, Mama, Sew!

Mouse Pincushion Video Tutorial for Etsy (I can NOT watch that, but you are welcome to).

Pintuck Clutch on Burda Style.

Market Tote on the Chronicle Books blog.

And here’s a post on babble from last summer’s blog tour about the things that inspire me. I just went back and read it again and it’s interesting to see how those same influences are at work in my designs for the next book.

Below you can see images of the chapter openers from the book so all 33 projects are shown here. The book is divided into chapters of three projects; and within each chapter the projects getting progressively more challenging and build on the skills you’ve already learned. So you can make projects from the book at random, or you can focus on improving your skills and sew the projects in order. I’m working on a yo-yo project right now for the next book and am thinking of the forty 1″ yo-yos that my intern sewed for the linen scarf below. I really like that project.