Category Archives: Tutorials

How to Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Envelopes

With Christmas on its way, and inspired by Joy to the Earth, I thought it might be a good time to share a tutorial for making earth-friendly envelopes. I have created my own envelopes out of old calendar pages since … Continue reading

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Tutorial: How to Recover your Ironing board

Everyone deserves a stylish ironing board.  Until two weeks ago I was still using the same cover my ironing board came with 6 years ago and it was in desperate need of a makeover.  I grabbed some of my most favourite fabric … Continue reading

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Patch Pocket Tutorials

Welcome to all of you who have taken on the Summer of No Pants challenge!  I am really excited to share some patch pocket tutorials with you today.  I love patch pockets because they are easy to make, adaptable to … Continue reading

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Pillow Cube Tutorial

I designed this pillow cube months ago when I was looking for something that would act as a design element, but also be functional for extra seating or to put up your feet at the end of a long day.  … Continue reading

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Mens Shirt Transformation

After my sewing experiment yesterday turned out so well, I was really excited about trying to transform another of Hubby’s old shirts.   He can’t wear them anymore because the collars have started to fray, but some of them are just … Continue reading

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Re-usable Grocery Bag Tutorials

When Sew, Mama, Sew! launched their re-useable bag sew-off they included a number of links to tutorials.  When I set out to make mine, I, of course, had to make one of each, even though it would have been so much easier and … Continue reading

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Baby Shower Sewing & Tutorial

Today when I woke up I decided that, no matter what else needed to be done, I was going to sew today!  Last week I spent some time cutting my scraps of flannel into two of my favourite scrap-busters: baby … Continue reading

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Laptop Bag – and Tutorial!

It’s 4:30 am and I can’t sleep.  Bad for me, but good for you.  Why?  Because I have finished my first-ever tutorial!  I have had the pleasure of making many things from the tutorials which very creative people have posted … Continue reading

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