Christmas Card

Okay its a bit late for Christmas cards but if you want to start getting ready for this year The Confessions of a Sewing Dork has a really simple and effective handmade Christmas card to whip up....you could easily have a heap of these ready for December. Don't you just love her catchy blog name!

The Mandy Bag

Tracy from Mad Quilter has a heap of tutorials and patterns on her side bar but take a look at this cute Mandy bag. She has mad this with a pocket to fit her i-phone in it.

Babushka Doll

Tracy from Mad Quilter has a cute little Babushka doll pattern she is sharing with us.

Messenger Bag from Cargo Pants Tutorial

Noodlehead has a tutorial on making a messenger bag from an old pair of cargo pants, could use jeans as well I think and with some funky material for the lining etc would look great.

Moda Bake Shop -Vernas Flower Quilt

Moda Bake Shop has a tutorial for a really pretty quilt

Christmas Row by Row

Fat Cat Patterns are having a row row by Christmas quilt BOM. Very cute indeed. Staring now in January and finishing up in August. January is up now until the next block goes up on the 1st of February.

Snowbound from Bunny Hill Designs

On the 5th of each month, for 12 months, you'll find a new quilt block over at Bunny Hill Designs. At the end of 12 months you can stitch them all together to have a winter quilt in time for Christmas!

Wire Edged Fabric Flowers Turorial

Polka Dot Pineapple has a tutorial on making wire edged flowers out of scraps of leftover material could look great with some funky colours all mixed together. Arlette has a heap of other tutorials to check out too.

Funky Drink Coaster Tutorial

ReannaLily Designs has a nice easy drink coaster tutorial with a fussy cut circle in the middle of the coaster.

Puffy Pouch Tutorial

Pink Penguin has a tutorial for the above Puffy Pouch, one made with a flex frame and one with velcro for the opening

Audries Scrappy Patchwork Sewing Machine Cover

Sew Inspired blog has Audrie from Blueisblue as a guest blogger and she has done a super easy tutorial for a sewing machine cover using up scraps of material. 

Quick Quilts have some freebies over on their site. I love this Partridge in a Pear Tree applique they are sharing with us.

Simple Rails Quilt

Marilyn and Robin over at Two Wacky Women have a nice easy peasy quilt to whip up called Simple Rails. Marilyn explains more about it on her blog Marilyn's Maze. Go grab the pattern and make up a few....they have made it to use 3 different yards of fabric for the top which makes things nice and simple....right up my alley.

Fabric Flower

Woman's Day has a tutorial on how to make this cute fabric flower...it could be used for lots of things....on your handbags, hair ties, hair bands, as a hanging ornament....probably lots more uses than that too.

Wonderful Winter Stitchery

Bird Brain Designs have another lovely stitchery to grab called Wonderful Winter.

Cloth dolls

Clothmatters has a few different free arty cloth doll patterns. Take a look if you are an artsy cloth doll maker. There is a fairy, bee, cat and duck pattern there.

2010 Calender

I have seen this saying and love it...what a great calender and you can download it over at Living Locurto.

Connecting Quilt As You Go Blocks

I must admit to be slack when it comes to the quilting stage. I get the top done and then I stop. I don't have a big long arm machine and find it so hard to quilt on my domestic machine. I know people do it....but I only seem to be able to stitch in the ditch. Anyway...I just came across this tutorial explaining how to join your quilted blocks together which made it seem so easy. Take a look at what Leah Day has to say about joining them.

Modern Garden Quilt using charm squares

Tea Rose has a lovely Modern Garden Quilt tutorial using charm squares. Looks easy enough to whip up and lovely and modern and fresh. Sachiko also has a nice easy nine patch quilt you can use your scrappy fabrics or scrappy strips up on.

Classic Apron

Well the season for cooking is with us and I just came across the Michael Miller Making it Fun blog with a pattern for the classic apron....nice and simple too. Take a look though as there are a heap of patterns on the sidebar over there.