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Beginners Tutorial For Easy to Sew Placemats with Rounded Corners

Easy Sew Placemats for Beginners. Practice beginner sewing skills to make these easy placemats for your kitchen or for a gift!

Beginners Tutorial for: Easy to Sew Placemats  Have fun making these Easy to Sew Placemats for Beginners. Placemats are a MUST for my tabletop! I’ve been wanting to make new placemats for our table, SO I decided to create an EASY Tutorial for Sewing Fabric Placemats with Rounded Corners.   Several years back we got a  new […]

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Easy Pillowcase Tutorial

How to make a Quick and Easy Pillowcase Tutorial. Use cotton fabric for simple sewing. Pillowcases can be made for kids and adults; standard and king pillowcase size.

Easy Pillowcase Tutorial-Sew Your Own Simple Pillowcase Welcome to the Easy Pillowcase Tutorial! My boys have quite a collection of pillowcases! It is tradition for me to sew my kids pillowcases on Christmas Eve. There are so many FUN choices of fabric for pillowcases!  My husband even said he’d sleep on a ‘FUN’ pillowcase!   […]

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Make Chenille Fabric: Add some fun fabric texture to your projects!

Learn How to Make Chenille Fabric. This is a fun technique using a slash rotary cutter. Click this pin to see the step by step tutorial with PLENTY of PHOTOS!

Learn How to Make Chenille Fabric Did you know that you can make chenille fabric?  You can use a single color of fabric OR use several colors of fabric to create many fun color effects!   I’ll be showing you how to make your own chenille fabric with Homespun Cotton Fabric. I have a book […]

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How to Creatively Fray Fabric Edges

DIY Fray Fabric Edges. Making a quilt? Ley your seams show and learn DIY Fray Fabric Edges! Give those seams texture with this easy seam finish!

A Sewing Technique that creates frayed edge seams for pillows, rag quilts and other projects. Learn How to Fray Fabric Edges! This fun sewing ‘how-to’  is easy enough for the beginner seamstress!  This sewing technique adds a textured touch, has great visual appeal and is a fun way to add some character to your project! […]

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Sew a Casserole Carrier: Quilted & Insulated

FREE Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners. DIY Sew a Casserole Carrier that is Quilted and Insulated. Click PIN to READ!

**Author updated 11/30/21 Sew a Casserole Carrier:  Quilted & Insulated Keep your hot foods HOT and cold foods COLD and Sew a Casserole Carrier: Quilted & Insulated! What is your favorite Thanksgiving dish?  Mine is Broccoli Casserole made by my father!  The one problem is that my dad would bring his casserole wrapped up in […]

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Batik Fabric Scraps: DIY Custom Fabric Pieces

How to make Batik Fabric Scraps: Why are Batiks the best fabric for making custom fabric pieces shown in this project? Click on this link to find out PLUS Find out the best tool to use for making tiny fabric pieces...

Using Batik Fabric Scraps to make Custom Batik Fabric Pieces What can you make with Batik Fabric Scraps? Cover foam board with cotton batting and a neutral fabric and then add your custom Batik Fabric Scraps piece to create your own custom artwork.   Use the scraps for appliqué and/or embellishment on another project.  Make your […]

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How to Make Quilted Potholders: To Fit the Larger than Average Size Hand

How to Make Quilted Potholders with insulated batting. Make the best homemade potholders using this sewing tutorial for beginners.

How to Make Quilted Potholders Not only will I show you How to Make Quilted Potholders, I’ll show you how to make quilted potholders larger than the average size found in stores!  I was sick and tired of always being so careful, with our store bought average-size potholders, not to burn my fingers or wrists! […]

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Sewing Journals

Sewing Project Journals- Keep track of the various details of your Sewing Adventures! 1)Make a Sewing Memories Journal-Pictures and Details of your finished projects. 2)Projects you want to do, or are in progress 3)Measurements Journal. These are a few examples of how you can use Sewing Journals in your sewing room!

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