18" Doll Sewing Patterns • Free Tutorials • Sewing with Kids
It’s finally acting like Oregon and raining this morning. Last week was a super busy week filled with soccer, school, and hexagons. This came and it’s made doing hexagons much more fun! Hexies can be a little addictive. The cutting out part is not really …
I have a project on my to-do list that I can check off! I have this doll bed that came with a less-than-ideal mattress. So I finally got around to making a mattress for my 18 inch doll bed. Measure. Add seam allowances for the …
We had our first youth quilt guild meeting last week and a great time was had by all! It was a great turnout -14 kids! It was a little touch and go as I talked through the “business” portion–they seriously looked panicked, as if they …
Recently, I was invited to join AccuQuilt’s Guest Blogging Team. I feel honored to be included in a group of such talented sewists. I’m really excited to share my first project: Here it is! A Haunted Table Runner Tutorial I used this gorgeous Riley …
I’m home and settled back into the routine of laundry, sack lunches, soccer practices, and fitting in sewing whenever I can. The EE Schenck Trends show was fun! Here are some pictures from my booth. The empty table is where I set up to do …
Well I’m off on a road trip again today–this time to the EE Schenck Trends show in Portland. The theme is Route 66 and I have a booth sponsored by C&T that I will be sharing with another author. In my (maybe somewhat lame) attempt …
Things have been super busy around here. This week I am off to the EE Schenck Trends Trade Show in Portland, where I will be doing demonstrations, doing a book signing, and teaching a Make-n-Take project. Here’s what I came up with for the Make-n-Take: …
I’m very excited to announce that there’s a new youth quilt guild being formed in my area! We already have about 8 kids joining and we haven’t had our first meeting yet. It’s going to be so much fun!
After several requests, I have finally made my Beginning Sewing Program available for others as a teacher materials kit with lesson plans to purchase and use to teach beginning sewing classes in your local areas. The Teacher’s Kit will include all the materials needed to …
Last week was the final week of the 2015 Sew in Style Summer Sewing Club for kids. We had some kids sewing right up to the end of the week! It was so much fun to see all the patterns being sewn by kids, kids …