The Katie Dress Pattern October 7, 2010 My oldest niece turned 7 in August and decided that for her birthday she wanted an American Girl doll. I wanted to help celebrate her great new doll and thought clothes would be the perfect gift. What does a girl love more than clothes? An Internet search for patterns left me empty handed. So to honor my sweet niece, I named my first dress pattern after her. As a kid, I hated that my doll clothes closed with velcro. And sweet rick rack details. Or, if you prefer, piping! These dresses are amazingly simple to construct. To print the pattern pieces correctly, set your margins to 0 and print. CLICK HERE to download the free pattern! Like this: Like Loading... Related Doll Clothes Galore!! Last August, my oldest niece decided she wanted an American Girl doll for her birthday. June 3, 2011 In "Family" Jumpsuit pattern mash-up My Ella turned 3 on Wednesday! September 26, 2014 In "Sewing" Olivia Dress Review
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Video sewing tutorials | Sewn Up More videos on my Youtube channel. Subscribe to my channel to be notified when I release a new video. Quilt patterns Disappearing pinwheel sampler quilt 1 video tutorial, 16 Half Square Triangles (HST), 16 different blocks, 1 quilt sampler Twirly whirly quilt tutorial Watch a 2 minute pinwheel block video tutorial: Fabric manipulation How to make an origami pinwheel quilt block (1:30 minutes) How to make an origami flower quilt block (3 minutes) Learn in 3 minutes how to make this origami flower block: Disappearing quilt blocks Disappearing 9 patch with pinwheels block (2:13 minutes) Disappearing 9-patch block variation block tutorial (1:37 minutes) Disappearing hourglass patchwork block (2:02 minutes) Disappearing 4 patch block (1 minute) Disappearing 4-patch variation block (1:27 minutes) Disappearing 9-patch patchwork block (50 seconds) Disappearing pinwheel block – 11 variations (1:47 minutes) Traditional blocks Buzz saw patchwork block (1:50 minutes) Hourglass block (56 seconds) Modern blocks Like this:
Moist Chocolate-Beet Cake It’s interesting reading some of the talk regarding if the internet is ready to replace cookbooks. Sure, there are people furiously clicking around wherever they can for a chocolate cake recipe. And there are hundreds of thousands of chocolate cake recipes that you can find using a search engine. But to me, that’s not enough. I want to know why someone chose that recipe, what twists they gave it, what made the cake or casserole they were making so special to them that they wanted to share it. When I had dinner with my publisher last spring in San Francisco, we talked about cookbooks, of course. Perhaps the internet does make searching, and researching, easier, but it saddens me to see the large aggregator sites simply repositioning content all in the hopes of making a buck, just to create a profitable database. I read cookbooks and I read blogs (and write both), and the ones that catch my fancy nowadays are ones with an author’s voice in there. Related Recipes German Chocolate Cupcakes
Tips For Sewing Denim Denim is a very popular fabric these days and is synonymous with jeans. Today term “jeans” usually refers to a specific style of pants, called Blue Jeans. These“rivet-reinforced” denim pants were invented by Jacob W. Origins of Denim However, given this important American contribution to the success of denim, what most people don’t know today is that denim was actually invented in France. Pont de Gard near Nimes, France Nîmes is an ancient Roman city most famous for its colosseum and aqueduct known as the Pont de Gard which stands over 160 feet high over the Gardon River and was build in the first century AD as part of a 50km system to carry water to the prosperous Roman colony of Nemausus, today know as Nîmes. The contemporary use of the word “jeans” actually comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy (Gênes) as sailors from this town were known to wear these cotton trousers. The world’s beloved “jeans” have been around for a very long time! Characteristics of denim Use sharp tools.
The Professional Association of Appraisers - Quilted Textiles Crafts | DIY Cozy Home | Page 57 Don’t miss out! Follow DIYcozyHome.com on Facebook and bring more love and life into your home. I have to admit that this type of craft is completely foreign to me. I have never used Mod Podge to put fabric on anything. But the more time I spend reading all these wonderful and crafty blogs I am learning so much and excited to try some for myself! Fore details on the cabinet, make sure to visit here: Sun Flower Lins blog. If you want to see the ultimate resource for mod podge fanatics, you have to check out this really great site, the Mod Podge Rocks Blog. Here’s a link to one of their most popular tutorials on doing fabric book covers. Enjoy…. Mod Podge Rocks Blog: Fabric Covered Books Guide {Image Credit} This looks like a totally fun project for a lazy weekend. I can think of a dozen places in our house that we could put some fun lighted letters. There’s lots of creative ways to use this project. Here’s the link to the tutorial… Home Heart Craft: DIY Lighted Letters {Image Credit} Enjoy!
fastcoexist In January, after years of building prototypes, the team finished their first pilot project in the real world. Partnering with a commercial developer outside Atlanta, in a tiny community called Serenbe, they built two one-bedroom houses, with materials that cost just $14,000 each. The goal: To figure out how to bring the ultra-low-cost homes, called the 20K Home, to the broader market. “We’re in a kind of experimental stage of the program, where we’re really trying to find out the best practice of getting this house out into the public’s hands,” says Rusty Smith, associate director of Rural Studio. “Really this first field test was to find out all the things that we didn’t know, and to find out all of the kind of wrong assumptions that we had made, and really find out how we had screwed up, honestly.” Years of architecture students, and their advisors, have spent more than a hundred thousand hours tweaking each detail of the house to optimize both the function and the price.
How to sew stars with perfect intersections Tip! (Not for the faint of heart) Be sure to check out the additional searches on the right side of the page. My name is Linda Franz and I love the Inklingo method of sewing 6 and 8 pointed stars. This is another good example of the advantages of printing on fabric with Inklingo. Print diamonds with Inklingo, cut, and sew. It is a big advantage to have cutting lines, stitching lines, matching marks, and crosshairs. Start by sewing half stars. When you join the two halves, "circle the intersection" by passing the needle through the crosshairs, one pair of seam allowances at a time. You can see exactly how I do it if you click to watch the video on YouTube.. These stars take about 10 minutes to sew by hand, start to finish! It is especially nice to have a stack of diamonds printed and ready to go in my portable sewing kit. Every intersection is perfect! Stars are fun, but Kaleidoscope Stars are even more impressive. You can "fussy cut" more easily than ever with the Inklingo No-Waste Method.
PACountryCrafts: Baby Clothes Memory Bear Pattern and Tutorial OK. I really can't take credit for this idea. A friend asked me to make a stuffed bear from the outfit her baby wore home from the hospital. She got the idea from Pinterest and it was a bad link so I can't source it. So, I had to come up with my own bear pattern. I used as few pieces as possible, but some extra stitching gives it more shape and allows it to sit. I made one from one of our old onesies first, since I was terrified to cut into that precious baby outfit. And, because I felt like it, I took pictures of the process to make a tutorial to share! You will need: ~clothing item to upcycle (or fabric) ~lightweight, iron-on interfacing ~thread ~ribbon ~fiberfill ~sewing machine ~bear pattern (available HERE) ***I have had a few people ask about sizing. Start out with the clothing item you wish to upcycle. Then, you want to dismantle it. Figure out how to fit the pattern on the available fabric. Now, knit fabric likes to stretch. Then, cut our your pattern pieces. Stuff the arms and legs.
Table Stand Quilt – White on White | From My Carolina Home I got a table quilt stand last year, specifically to display my Miniature Mariner’s Compass. Problem though, the quilt is too small, or is it the frame is too big? Either way it isn’t going to work, so I needed to make something else. I have decided to do a series of quilts for it, for different seasons and holidays. All will be original designs. I don’t promise one a month, but there will be several this year. Add more fabrics log cabin style, cutting off the excess as you go. Press the additions flat as you go so there isn’t any ruffling. Continue until you have a 12 inch block. Then using your sewing machine’s decorative stitches, go over the seam lines in white thread. I was excited to use the used Pfaff I purchased some time ago with all those stitches! Isn’t this fun! So I started playing around with various items. This rose ribbon was couched on using the blind hem stitch on the machine. On the back, I added two wide loops to hang the little quilt on the frame. Like this:
Cigar Box Doll Bed and Postage Stamp Quilt The other day as I sat there looking at my stash of vintage cigar boxes, and my other stash of vintage postage stamps* I couldn’t help but think how they would work so nice together. Eventually, with my old box, stamps, printable cotton fabric sheets, and some digitally scanned images, I created my own fun piece of folk art- a charming little doll bed. I began with the box, trimming away the lid. Digging into my box of vintage game pieces, I found the perfect bed legs and attached them to the bottom of the box. I trimmed off a bit of the box lid and attached the large section to one end of the box as a headboard. I gathered a load of colorful stamps, laid them out in a grid and scanned them. I printed the red stamps and the multi-colored stamps to printable cotton sheets. Here is my tiny two-sided postage stamp doll quilt. I created a pillow from a vintage envelope image I shared HERE and addressed to Little Miss Dolly.
Learn How to Paper Piece a Log Cabin Quilt Block The best way to learn paper piecing is to start making paper pieced quilt blocks. My Log Cabin quilt block pattern is a good place to start, because its rectangular patches are a bit easier for beginners to position than the triangles found in other paper pieced patterns. Most people use the term paper piecing when talking about this technique, but it's actually a method that falls under the umbrella of foundation piecing -- where fabrics are sewn onto permanent or temporary foundations. Read my paper piecing basic instructions before making the log cabin if you aren't familiar with the technique, and then gather your supplies and start sewing. Paper Pieced Log Cabin Template Download the log cabin template. Log Cabin Block Fabrics Traditional log cabin blocks are assembled with a split color value arrangement, lights on one side and darks on the other. Choose a scrappy assortment of light fabrics and another assortment of dark fabrics.
Layered Almond Carrot Cake – KATE STOLTZ NYC This delicious layered almond carrot cake can be altered, but this is my personal favorite version of my carrot cake recipe. If you don’t like almonds, you can substitute them for pecans or walnuts, or just eliminate them. You can also serve as a single layer cake to save time, but the layers nicely distribute the frosting between the cake. Cake ingredients: pinch of salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. nutmeg 2 cups granulated sugar 2 cups flour 1 1/4 cup vegetable oil 3/4 cup crushed almonds 3 cups grated carrots Frosting and topping ingredients: 1 cup sliced almonds 16 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) 1 cup confectioners sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1. 2. 3. 4. TIPS: The cake might crumble a little while you are frosting if your cream cheese isn’t warm enough. Enjoy!!! Like this: Like Loading...