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Sewing: Week Fourteen Rice Filled Pattern Weights
Square rice filled pattern weights – it’s about time I’ve made some of these! Enough with pins, these pattern weights will save time and save my patterns from pin snags. I’m so excited! Okay – this tutorial is adapted from positively splendid – yet she uses metal BBs in her pattern weights. That’s just not safe to have around my pup. If Lily for some reason finds one of them and decides to eat it, well, with BBs it’s gave over. So, I’ve decided to…
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Sewing: Week Thirteen Pillow Case Apron
Week thirteen pillow case apron – yes, we’re at week thirteen already! That’s 1/4 of the way through the year. Time flies when you’re having fun, doesn’t it? This goal of 52 weeks of sewing has been so fun thus far and I’m excited to get into a few complicated projects this year, but I love simple ones like this 20 minute pillow case apron. It’s perfect for cooking and buzzing around the kitchen. Let’s get started. What You Need 1 high quality pillow case…
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Sewing: Week Twelve High-Waisted Mini-Skirt
High-waisted mini-skirt – a bit of an accident in the making, yet it’s one of my favourite pieces. I started this weeks sewing project with the goal of making a tank top using one of McCall’s simple patterns. No such luck. You can see below that my goal was simple and seemed easy – well, that’s until I made a critical error in twisting the strap. No way I was going to undo all the stitches and try again. I’d rather start over; and I…
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Sewing: Week Nine Tea and Lunch Napkins
Tea and lunch napkins. What makes them tea and lunch napkins? The size. Your traditional dinner napkin is around 18-20 inches. These ones are cut at 16 and finish around 15.5 inches. You could certainly use them for a more casual dinner, like tacos or lasagna, but not for something a bit more formal, like roasted lamb. Although, if you were in a pinch, a napkin is better than no napkin! The best part about these napkins is that they are up-cycled from two high…
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Sewing: Week Seven DIY Leggings
Week seven is DIY leggings for the 52 weeks of sewing. This tutorial is perfect for quick and easy leggings, yet it greatly depends on your fabric choice, so choose wisely. I used the same fabric from the tunic tutorial – I just won’t wear them together, that would be a fashion mess! To make the template pick your favourite leggings – I picked this lululemon pair of underwonders. They are soft and fitted, so perfect to make a my standard legging pattern. What You…
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Projects: Guest Room
Guest Room We did it again, we re-did the guest room. When we first moved in on November 25, 2011 we re-did the guest room quickly because we had a visitor not even 6 weeks later – my mom. Since then it’s basically stayed the same. In March of 2015 we got the windows in both main floor rooms turned into doors since one day we’ll have a deck all around the house. Then, this past fall we renovated the closet in that room and…
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Project: Junk Drawer
Junk Drawer Getting it organized for less than 10$. Total score. This project has been on my to-do list for quite some time and I’m happy to finally cross it off. First, a picture of the completely messy drawer. Everything just shoved in there with no home – all feeling lost. I wanted some containers to keep things in place and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I hit up the dollar store. What I did, however, was take measurements of…
