Quick Crafty Round-up

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Découpage Eggs from Moda Bake Shop.

Crêpe Paper Flowers from Hello! Lucky (excerpt from Martha Stewart Weddings).

Easter Egg Diorama Music Box from Matsutake (via Whip Up).

Grow Your Own Wheatgrass from Make and Takes (that’s wheatgrass, people).

Flower Hair Clips from Julie’s Blog.

Bunny Finger Puppets from The Purl Bee.

Cheat’s Papier Mâché from The Red Thread.

Hand-painted Teacup Tutorial featured on The Storque’s How-Tuesday from Louche Lab.

Spring Pieced Coasters

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I know it’s not spring yet, just wishful thinking. I happen to have a large number of scraps in my sewing room at the moment in these lovely beach-inspired colors. And I just received a review copy of Alabama Studio Style, which has a lot of string-pieced projects (more on that later in the week).

So here’s a quick tutorial for string-pieced coasters. It seems that I do a lot of coaster tutorials here, but I’m a fan of quick, easy and useful things. And this is a great project for fabric scraps.

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Supplies (for 4 coasters):

  • Fabric scraps: min. 24″ length
  • Backing fabric: 5 1/2″ x 22″
  • Quilt batting: 5 1/2″ x 22″
  • Matching thread
  1. Cut fabric scraps with minimum 24″ length. Cuts should not be straight.
  2. Sew right sides together until you have a width of 6″ or more.
  3. Press.
  4. Cut off sides and top to form a rectangle 5 1/2″ x 22.
  5. Cut out tops, batting and backing fabric in 5 1/2″ squares.
  6. Sew around, leaving an opening to turn right sides out. Opening should be on a side with one continuous piece. Clip off the corners.
  7. Turn right sides out, press and hand stitch the opening closed.

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