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Sewing Patterns

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Sew Simple Homemade Gifts

I made the original sewing pattern and posted the directions to sew a tea towel clothes peg bag (or clothespin bag) about five years ago, I think.  After all that time, the original peg bag was bleached completely by the sun, so I was due for a replacement.  I checked out my own peg bag sewing pattern yesterday and was chuffed because it made [...]

Sewing Projects for Beginners

I was introduced to sewing at age 10, when the girls in my class were taught how to make a simple hand-stitched gingham apron.  Our teacher, born in the Edwardian era, was then close to retirement, but she still had a very good idea about how girls should behave (think Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and creme de la creme) [...]

Recycling Denim Jeans

Reusing Denim
Don’t throw away those outgrown blue jeans - there’s lots more wear left in that hard-working denim! Tear off the pockets and get out the hot glue gun to make Denim Pocket Locker or Fridge Magnets - a great little gift for the teen in your life.
Or how about making a Denim Diary [...]

Creative Commons

I’ve recently been exploring, with great enjoyment, the Creative Commons site.  Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers ”a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.”
It’s a concept that is worth exploring.  You can [...]

Ode to Old Blue Jeans

Here are some ways to recycle old blue jeans not the least of which is a denim quilt, which has been on my “to do” list for a while now.
I want to make a new cover out of denim for an old quilt that I sewed for my daughter years ago.  The planned quilt is patchwork denim [...]