Today we have the how to for the easiest baby blanket ever....a ragged baby blanket tutorial! Alright...maybe it's not the easiest baby blanket ever...but it is pretty simple to make. Seriously, if you can sew (and cut) semi straight lines you can make this blanket. (And have it turn out practically perfect!) We put this tutorial together as a part of a series that Melanie from The Crafty Cupboard and Lisa from Maybe She Made It are putting on called: It is to celebrate the ... View the Post
Today we are talking about the past, the present, and the future….
Well, it's Monday and we are going to start this week off with a look into the past, the present, and the future... So, let's begin with the future and then make like Huey Lewis and the News and go back in ti I ime... *THE FUTURE: Next month at SNAP we know that we are going to get to meet JEANINE THOMLINSON (or possibly her friend Crystal that she wrote about in her comment) in person because she won our SNAP Conference ticket giveaway!!! Hooray Jeanine!!!! SNAP (and especially the sewing ... View the Post
Squid Squid Whale or…If Nautical Nonsense Be Something You Wish
Alright. Here's the deal. Susan from Living With Punks invited us to join in her Home Sewn Series where a lovely bunch of bloggers are getting together to sew items for their homes. See the terrific list below? It's a fun group...and will be an excellent series! The only problem is... ...that Susan invited us awhile back...and in between the invitation and today a lot of things happened...including me moving and reorganizing our home library. (No...it's not enough for me to hoard ... View the Post
Days to Celebrate: March Holidays!!!
Hey! It's the first Saturday of March so that means it's time to announce all the days we have to celebrate this coming month...you know...so you can start planning for National Potato Chip Day and Something on a Stick Day... But before we get to the calendar... this month the nation will be celebrating three things that we can fully endorse: Crafting, Quilting, and Women because March is officially National Craft Month, National Quilting Month, and National Women's History Month!!! It's ... View the Post
What’s Black and White and Sewn Together???
Grace's new "dress shirt" of course! It's actually made from strips of the most delicious velvet ribbon from The Ribbon Retreat and some of Riley Blake's neon pink cotton. For awhile now Grace has wanted a "dress shirt" (a shirt that looks like a dress and is fancy but that she can wear pants and no slip with) so I finally made her one. And it was a hit. For the complete tutorial head on over to The Ribbon Retreat where we have posted the how-to. But before you go... Awhile ago ... View the Post
The Art of Homemaking: Why My Grandma is Getting a Shark in the Mail
Here are the facts: *In January Elizabeth and I attended ALT. *One of the sponsors at ALT was Shark vacuums...and I got obsessed with their Rocket vacuum and steamer. (To the point that I was vacuuming the floors, rugs, couches, my pants, whatever all over the hotel instead of going to class with Elizabeth...and then was so loud with all my vacuuming they had to shut the doors to the classrooms to keep all my noise out. True Story.) *Then one of the Shark ladies told me that I could enter a ... View the Post