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Updating Couch Cushion Covers/Minimal Sewing Skill Required
I enjoy sewing and have experience making things like valances and envelope pillow covers. I love looking at all the fabrics and textures available when beginning a project. All the beautiful choices can be overwhelming! Recently I was lucky enough to score a beautiful couch at a nearby yard sale. The only thing I didn’t care for was the color. That I changed to more my liking with fabric dye. If you would like to see how I did this you can find the method and products in a previous blog I recently wrote. The couch that is the subject in this blog was still a very good piece of…
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Easy Holiday Accent Pillow Slipcovers Customized For A Gift Or For Your Home
My favorite gifts to give are the ones I make myself. I enjoy personalizing them for the recipient and making something that is functional. In doing so it has encouraged me, over the years, to sharpen my sewing skills and learn new crafts. This year I decided to make some holiday accent pillow covers and give them as gifts to a few of my family members for Christmas. I enjoy having seasonal slipcovers that can be changed along with the seasons. Slipcovers take up much less space then pillows so they are much easier to store. Here are the two pieces of precut fabric I found this year at Joann’s…
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Easy Accent Pillow Cover/Sew With Machine or By Hand
The story of this pillow cover starts here↓ And ends here↓ Not that there is anything wrong with the above pillow but when I stumbled across the buffalo check pattern on this Dollar General throw and went apple picking, the Autumn vibes took over! This is project #2 from this throw purchase. The first is my Cozy Fall Pumpkins which I recently posted. I realized I have no black and white buffalo check decor in my home so I decided to challenge myself and make as many projects as I could to sprinkle around my home from just this one purchase. I began by cutting my fabric. The dimentions of…
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Creating Pumpkins Using Fleece and Adding Natural Stems/Easy Sewing Project
I love decorations that have texture and fabric pumpkins give you endless options:) I made three of these in less then an hour. You can use anything you have available such as old sweaters, flannel shirts, denim, scarves, blankets, towels, pillow cases and the list goes on. This is so much fun! These pumpkins came from a $5.00 buffalo check fleece throw I came across at Dollar General. It wasn’t something I was looking for but inspiration struck when I saw it and for that price I knew I would be able to create a few pumpkins along with a seasonal pillow. Score:) Besides your fabric of choice you will…