Category: sewing

January 26, 2021

Face Warming Cowl Mask to Sew

I’ve been spending quality time outside this winter, hiking in a local park with good friends, and freezing my face off. Sew, I sew, and am creative, and came up with a solution; a face warming cowl mask that I can pull up over my face when social distancing out on the trails.  With an optional nose wire for those...

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December 20, 2020

Fabric Christmas Trees, Using Scraps for a Rustic Look

  The Inspiration for my Strip-Pieced Fabric Christmas Trees I made a bunch of these fabric Christmas tree and it all began with a recent obsession with “strip-piecing”. (In the sewing/quilting world that means joining strips of fabric together to make larger pieces.)  This obsession has been with me for a while now, starting with a Quilt of Valour. Then...

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September 7, 2020

Sun Visor, a Free Pattern and Tutorial

With the days getting shorter, the sun has been right in my eyes when I take an evening walk.  My poor old sun-visor had seen better days, so here’s a new version, a sun visor, a free pattern and tutorial. No floppy brim on this one, thanks to “Craft-Fuse”. Supplies: • 2 pieces of fabric for the brim, cotton is...

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April 3, 2020

Scrub Cap

This pattern is based on a chemo cap that I designed and use to make caps to donate to people in need.  I’ve adapted it to make it larger so this scrub cap will fit over a full head of hair.   The opening at the bottom of the back allows for a pony tail.  You can make one in less...

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March 29, 2020

My Socially Distanced World

Oh my dear friends, how ARE you?  How are you coping in this socially distanced life?   I needed to reach out today (finally) and write a bit, after spending almost 2 weeks doing very little.  3 days after returning from our North Carolina trip I came down with a dreadful head cold and that, plus all the COVID 19...

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January 31, 2020

Comfort Caps Sewing it Forward

Comfort Caps.  The term comfort caps sends a shiver through me.  I’ve been there, walked the walk, I talk the talk.  Surgeries, chemo, hair loss, radiation, then a few years later it reared it’s ugly head again and another part was removed.  2008 and 2015.  All in the past.   During part of that journey, I was a business owner. ...

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January 8, 2020

Tree of Strength for Australia a free Quilt Block (updated instructions)

I wanted to design another tree block to donate to Australia and came up with “Tree of Strength for Australia”. Many of us feel so bad and helpless watching the terrible news about the fires ravaging Australia.  Then I saw this post on Facebook from the Wollongong Modern Quilt Guild: Our NSW communities have been ravaged by fire since August...

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January 7, 2020

Tree Block for Australia using Flying Geese

Flying Geese Tree Block for Australia Finishes at 12 1/2 inches You need 3 colours to make this tree block for Australia, cream for the background, green for the trees, and a scrap for the trunk. I make my geese the “4-at-a-time” way, starting with a goose square (green in this case)  7 1/4 “ and four sky squares that...

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December 18, 2019

Earwarmer Headband in Polar Fleece

Using leftover pieces of Polar Fleece and strips of ITY knits from previous projects makes this a frugal endeavor. I needed a few quick but practical gifts and these fit the bill.  It’s my own pattern, and my “last-minute-gift” to you. Modelled on my late mom’s hat-making wooden head. There’s a link to a printable PDF pattern and the instructions...

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October 14, 2019

Waist Purse with Pockets

Waist Purse with Pockets Necessity is the mother of invention, and I decided I needed a Waist Purse with Pockets.  I’ll be teaching at the CreativFestival soon, and didn’t want to deal with a “real purse”.  Clipping something around my waist to hold my papers, phone, wallet and lipstick made sense, so here’s what I came up with: Finished size...

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