Ya’ll. This is the easiest sewing project I may have ever made. Seriously. Super quick too. And cheap! It’s like the ultimate DIY project triumvirate- inexpensive, easy, and quick to make. There’s not many projects that tick all of those boxes but this DIY nursing cover does! If you want to make a baby shower …
Baby girl clothes are so much fun. I have 2 boys so whenever I get the chance to get girly stuff for friend’s babies I take it! With another little princess on the way I wanted to attempt to make a dress and I came up with this free baby dress pattern that I’m sharing …
While walking in the fabric store one day my son spotted with his eagle eyes fabric with Batman on it. My son loves the Dark Knight and begged me to make him a Batman blanket. So of course I waited for the licensed fleece to go on sale and then made him a snugly Batman …
I was rummaging through the Joanne’s remnant rack a few months back and happened upon some waffle weave fabric and thought “I need some more dish towels… I can make them with this!”. And then the fabric sat in my sewing room (AKA the basement) for months and months until at the beginning of this …
If you are just tuning in and you missed them be sure to check out Lesson 1: Supplies & Lesson 2: Getting to know your machine. When we left off last week you had just gotten your machine set up and you’re now ready to go! So let’s get started. I’m going to go over …
Our couches came with a set of pillows that were ok but not really my style. They’re not terrible but they are more traditional and formal than we really are. So I wanted to make some new pillow covers. I stumbled across some of my favorite fabric in the remnant section in Joanne’s. This is …
Good morning, good morning! Welcome to sewing 101 Lesson 2! Today we will talk all about sewing machines. (In case you missed lesson 1 and need to catch up check out last week’s post.) I think one of the number one barriers to people getting started with sewing is that the sewing machine seems complicated …
For Christmas this year I made my newest niece a set of soft fabric blocks. My sons had a set like these when they were babies and they loved them. Hopefully my niece loves them too. Here’s how I made them. I gathered up all my smaller scraps. I have a few, as you can …
So maybe you have always wanted to sew but you’ve been too intimidated to try. Or maybe you finally got up the guts to try and snagged a sewing machine on Black Friday or got one for Christmas, but you’re thinking now what? Well, no need to be intimidated or lost any more. Today I’m …
This past week we decorated our house for Christmas. We don’t do a ton of decorating for Christmas mostly because of too many little hands getting into things, but the boys love to decorate for holidays so we do try to make it a little festive around here. We put up our mini tree (I …
UPDATE: I am so sorry about the lack of pictures in this post. I have lost them due to a photo storage issue and I am working on re-shooting this tutorial in the future. Thank you for your understanding. On Friday I shared about what’s going to be under our Christmas tree this year and …
Over a year ago we got new couches. And when we put our old couch out to the curb we put the old ottoman out as well. It was broken and coming apart at the seams. Our boys had used and abused it, and it was time. For a year we kept an eye out …