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The course that helped me kickstart my surface pattern design business!
I have always loved to create. At a young age I began drawing and to this day still have notebooks full of sketches from my Seventeen magazines. I have a degree in Communications/Advertising and taught myself Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop almost 15 years ago to complement my degree. I’m still learning every day! I have three kids ages 11, 9 and 6. When my oldest was a toddler I opened an Etsy shop and made all kinds of baby accessories as my creative outlet while caring for littles. I realized after 8 years of sewing morning and night, that my true passion was in the fabric. I recently shut the…
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DIY Face Mask for Mask Shortage
Sewers all over the country are coming together in an amazing way and creating homemade face masks due to the shortage of masks caused by covid-19. This sewing tutorial for a face mask for the covid-19 mask shortage will hopefully give you an easy step by step guide that even the most novice sewist can follow! The shortage of masks for health care providers, those with compromised immune systems, nursing homes and even those with the virus, is so frightening. I was lucky to stumble across a Facebook group this week with over 6500 local fellow sewers from in and around Northwest Indiana who made me aware of this situation…
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Knotted newborn hat sewing tutorial with free printable pattern
This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase using my link , I earn a small commission and you support my little business. Thank you! This super simple sewing project makes the perfect baby gift AND the whole project can be done within 15 minutes! These knotted hats were a best seller in my Etsy shop, and now I’m excited to share with you how to make them. I’ve also included a free, printable PDF pattern. For this project you will need… A stretchy, knit fabric. I wrote a post about where I shop for my favorite knit fabrics here. I LOVE all of the unique prints on Spoonflower and…
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How we painted our stairs black
This is one of those projects that I wish I would have done the moment we moved in. Why did we wait so long for this stair makeover?! For some reason it’s very nerve wracking to paint original wood. Putting paint on a floor surface feels even more wrong! I’m here to tell you, Just do it! You won’t be sorry. It will make your old stairs feel so fresh! When we moved into our old home, we were excited to see mostly hardwood floors. Terrible, nasty, hardwood floors…but hardwood nonetheless. A few years back we got some quotes to refinish the wood. It’s expensive ya’ll, so we decided to…
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Friday faves – My favorite fabrics for Fall!
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase items using my link, I’ll get a small commission and you’ll have done me a solid by supporting my blog! Please see my disclosure policy for more info. I absolutely love browsing fabric and thought I’d share some of my most favorite, fall vibe fabrics! Most of these are from fabric.com which is one of my absolute favorite resources for fabric. I’ve also included a few of my favorite Spoonflower fabrics. I love shopping Spoonflower because each purchase directly supports the small biz designer who created that fabric! Now to decide what to make… Art Gallery Fabrics Dear Stella Fabrics Cloud 9…
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Bunny Hat Sewing Tutorial with Free Pattern
With Easter right around the corner I thought I would share this sweet bunny hat sewing tutorial including a free pdf pattern! When my kids were babies I loved making little knotted hats for them. One Easter I added one more “knot” and came up with this cute little bunny! What you’ll need: 1/4 yard stretchy knit fabric. I love shopping serger.
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Turn your kids creations into plushies!
Turn your kids creations into plushies!
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DIY Industrial Curtain rods + extra long DIY curtains
When we moved into our house about 4 years ago, we didn’t have a lot of money for renovations, but we did have A LOT of windows to cover. I’m thankful for our many windows letting in tons of light during the day, but they also allow the neighbors to see everything we’re up to when the sun goes down (sorry guys). So, when we moved in we just needed to cover those bad boys asap to give ourselves some privacy. I found the cheapest two packs of white curtain panels as well as the most inexpensive curtain rods I could find all with the intention of changing the curtains…
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We refinished our 100 year old floors!
Why didn’t we do this years ago?! We refinished our 100 year old floors! One of the things we loved about our house when we first saw it were the original hardwood floors. We thought the floors had such potential to be beautiful! Although they were very beat up, discolored, worn, scratched, splattered and faded, we could still envision the potential with a simple floor refinishing. But guess what, turns out refinishing a floor is expensive and time consuming, lol! Fast forward 3 years and we still had the same beat up, rough, discolored floors. Also, that awful old vinyl in the kitchen (you can check out our kitchen makeover…
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Candice Ayala’s Upcycling Challenge
A while back, a friend of mine, whose sister owns an adorable boutique, gave me this funky pair of pants. They’ve always been just a little too tight and I’ve never quite been bold enough to wear them. I love the fun print though and have been wanting to upcycle them into something for my daughter and just haven’t gotten around to it. I came across Candice Ayala’s Upcycling Challenge on Instagram and thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get to work on turning these forgotten pants into something usable! You can read about Candice’s challenge here, but basically it’s a competition to upcycle an existing piece into…
