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Wednesday, 29 April 2015

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Friday, 24 April 2015

Free Crochet tutorials and patterns

Attic24 has a heap of great free patterns and tutorials and in particular I love these.
Take a look at the left sidebar for many other free tutorials and patterns.


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Crochet Flowers



There are lots of free patterns and tutorials for crochet flowers on the internet so I have put a few together in this post that I thought were very cute.

Attic24 has a great tutorial showing step by step how to make a crochet flower. 

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RoseHip has layered flowers


Scrapbook and Cards shows how to crochet a simple 5 petal flower. 

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Craftstylish has another tutorial show how to make flowers.

To start off the bobble stitch, make one half-complete double crochet stitch.  

Skip To My Lou shares her crochet pattern.


Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Recycle T-shirt Into Produce Grocery Bag

Another great way to make a recycled t-shirt bag and very chic to carry your produce or groceries.

Recycle old t-shirts and make a tote bag

This tutorial is done without any sewing thanks to Mommy Potamus.

How to make an old t-shirt into a CUTE tote bag/ farmer's market bag in 10 minutes.

For those who want to sew this tutorial show you how to make the recycled t-shirt tote.


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Flower Tutorial

Large Flower tutorial - Dress up your front door or wall with this lovely decoration.

Yellow Paper Flower Tutorial      white-flower-wreath

Friday, 17 April 2015

Geta's Quilting Studio: Tutorial- raw edge applique

Geta's Quilting Studio: Tutorial- raw edge applique: Learn how to sew this little quilt with the easiest and fastest technique: fusible raw edge applique. 

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Pretty Floral Divided Tote

Thread Riding Hood is sharing a tutorial on how to make a Divided Tote Bag.

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Quilt Row Markers

Quilt Row Markers shared by Nancy over at My Fancy Nancy Life


Denim Potlholders

Great way to recycle those old jeans into some  denim potholders.

How to sew potholders and mitts from denim jeans 

Nancy also shares her free pattern and tutorial for a casserole carrier 

Nancy Zieman How to Sew a Potluck Carrier

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Log Cabin Hexi Potholders


Caroline from Sew Can She has a variety of free tutorials and patterns that you can check out.

I also like the cute little girls frilly skirt.



Cute ribbon and vinyl zipper pouches look snazzy too.




DIY Projects

Its Overflowing has a great list of DIY Projects worth looking at.

My favourites are the Spring Flowers and using an old whisk recycled.

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DIY Cookie Basket

DIY Cookie basket using a plain paper plate and for and tutorial for muffins.

what a cool idea - make a cookie gift basket from a paper plate! 

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Gift Box/Package

Now this is a clever and easy way to make a cute gift package for a cupcake, cookies or sweets.
It shows how to use a plain paper cup and transform it.

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Fabric Coil Coasters Tutorial

Fabric Coil Coasters - an easy tutorial to make coasters with no sewing involved.
And another way to use up scraps of fabric