Playing with Colours using Crayons

Mrs Moen has a tutorial showing how she uses crayons to colour in your stitcheries.

Paper Pieced Santa Ornament

Pinwheel Ponders had a great paper pieced Santa ornie to share with us. Gosh there are so many things around blogland I will never ever have enough years in my life time to do them all...but once again, this is another on my list....lol....drop over to my Sew Prim Khris blog and have a look at ones I whipped up...they really are easy and fun to make.

Crazy Christmas Quilt

Piece N Quilt have a tutorial for a simple charm square Crazy Christmas quilt I really like.....gosh, I really need to make another quilt...one day. There are a heap of other tutorials over there I like too...like the Figgy Christmas quilt....very nice indeed.

Christmas Tree Napkins

Christmas tree napkins are a great idea to decorate your table for Christmas this year. Drop over to Craft Sanity and check these out.

Elf Softie

Make Baby Stuff has a tutorial for a cute little Elf softie. I think this is a real cutie for the babies and kids.

Folder Star Patchwork

Jennifer from Bronze Wombat has an amazing folded star patchwork tutorial. You could use this as a trivet, pot holder, coaster or centre piece. Something I will have to try at some stage.

Hexagon patterns

Kiwi Quilts has some great ideas using hexagons. I really like the hexagon star ornament, but take a look and see the other great freebies she has.

Fabric bowl

Poppy Lane has a very easy fabric bowl to make. Would be cute in Christmas colours with some candy bonbons in it.

Scrap Ribbon Wallet

Lil Blue Boo has a cute tutorial for a Scrap Ribbon Wallet...you can use up all those left over ribbons that are too small for much else.

Whoo's Sleepy Travel Pillow

Robert Kaufmann have the cutest pillow with what else but an owl on it....so cute!!!

Sewing Box

Nicole from Nickels Pickles has a fabric sewing box tutorial to take a look at. It is in German but she has an English PDF to download for us non German speaking people. Thanks Nicole!

Village Tablerunner

Mrs Moen has a tutorial to make a lovely village table-runner. I really like this and love the effect of the black fabric with white spots she has used to get a snowy look.

Oilcloth Lunchbag

Martha Stewart has a free pattern to make an oilcloth lunch bag. This is what I am planning on making very soon.

Pillowcase Dress

What a clever idea Refashion has come up with to whip up an easy dress for a little girl. She has used a pillowcase to make this lovely little dress. Of course you could just use fabric too but there are so many cute pillowcases that are fairly cheap to buy that it would make a nice cheap dress too.

Chicken Pincushion

Quilting Works has a pattern for a chicken pincushion. I know we have probably seen these around before but until I got one similar sent to me by my friend Marilyn I dint realise how cute they really were...take a look at mine here.

Sewing Purse

Living Creatively has this cute little purse to keep your sewing bits and bobs in....I think I would use for money purse though too.

Studio efabrics had got a great range of free patterns....a couple of nice hand bags that I really like, quilts, pincushions and other goodies to try your hand at.

Flower Shower Quilt by Michael Miller

Flower Shower from Michael Miller Fabrics....this is nice and funky. There are a heap of nice ones on the main pattern page here.

13 Owls by Michael Miller Fabrics

Michael Miller have a free owl quilt pattern called 13 Owls for all the owl lovers.

Large Patchwork Bag

All People Quilt have also got a great pattern for a Large Patchwork Bag. Love the fabrics they have used on this bag.