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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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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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Pintuck Clutch Pattern at BurdaStyle

Remember this Pintuck Clutch from 1, 2, 3 Sew? You can now get the free, downloadable pattern over at BurdaStyle.

I made an even simpler version over the weekend (below), smaller and without the pleats, using some Anna Maria Horner fabric and the pink cotton sateen for a lining again. This bag comes together very quickly, especially after you’ve made a few of them. And it’s a nice gift or a simple way to spruce up an outfit. Since I used quilting cottons (rather than twill as used in the book) for these two bags, I added fusible fleece to the lining to make it a bit sturdier.

And here it is in the book in a green twill, along with the other two bags from the handbag chapter. You can see what a difference fabric choice makes in the overall look of the bag.