Atelescoping magnetis the best tool you never knew you needed in the sewing room. And, what a great stocking stuffer. These are available at most hardware stores and online. I find more pins and screws (because I always have a screw loose) than I ever thought imaginable. And if, like ...
dreaming of his future. First steps, first words, first books. Best friends, braces, teenage bravado. Off to computer camp, off to college, off on his own. Thirty years later he drops by for dinner, sporting his unshaven weekend
Hi Friends! Do you have unfinished cross stitch projects laying around just waiting to be completed? I can help you! I finish the un-finished so you can gift them, frame them, whatever you want to do with them. So far I have helped 3 different people from this message board who are ...
A perfect spot to hibernate and stitch and watch the snow. I’ve been looking for THIS daybed forever. It turned up (the exact one I wanted!) at a garage sale for just a little money and in perfect shape. The mattress is a chunk of memory foam and the cover is made from big scra...
We are so excited to be parents, and feel very blessed to have such great family and friends to support us during this special time. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling too hot for a little while (feeling MUCH better now on the morning sickness front), so sewing kind of took a back...
Oh no! My best suggestion is to keep track of the rows. Write them down if you have to so you know you aren’t working and extra row of seed stitch etc. That will throw ya off for sure! Pingback:Stripes & Eyelets Urban Easy Blanket Knitting Pattern – Mama In A Stitch ...
If you are interested in seeing, reading about, and getting the free pattern for the crazy quilt block that this detail came from, you will find ithere in my Diamonds are Forever series. Have you seen my Stitchers Templates? Create your own designs with Sharon’s easy-to-use stitchers tem...
Note Two: I used to struggle with knotting my floss, but Heather Bailey'schanged my hand sewing and embroidery forever. Seriously. Sewing two pieces together (and how to stitch around a corner) (1) Place the wrong-sides of the felt layers together. ...
Turns out, we need lots of good bacteria, too. The pop intellectual Michal Pollan has gotten in on this trendy thinking, most recently in an article for The New York Times entitled “Some of My Best Friends are Bacteria.”“Here were the names of the hundreds of bacterial species that ...
so I added a strip of old text. Then I took a piece of drywall tape and rubbed PanPastels over the surface. The tape is pretty deep so it tore up the foam applicator but it had been used and those things don’t last forever. I liked the scale of the squares so I continued the ...