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It’s been cold here lately. On top of that, I’ve been on the computer a lot and the combination of the two makes my wrists hurt a little more from a small amount of tendinitis. I love wrist warmers/fingerless gloves, though all I have is a cheap acrylic pair and they annoy me because the [...]

This tutorial was written by Jane of Dear Author. Tot received an American Girl dog (Honey, if you were wondering) for Christmas. She really wanted the dog bed. At $18, though, it wasn’t happening. I did think I could replicate it, or even improve upon it. What do you think? Materials List: Two ovals of [...]

This post was written by Jane of Dear Author When I first saw the boxy pouch tutorial, I thought it would be a delight to make but I wanted it to be lined and have the handle like the one I saw at Burda Style. Further, I needed my boxy pouch to be larger. I [...]

This post was written by Jane of Dear Author. This year, I made teacher’s gifts using some cute craft tutorials. First up is the journal cover. I used this tutorial from Bloom. While the tutorial doesn’t say this explicitly, there is no lining inside the pocket panels. You can add a lining, but it makes [...]

This post was written by Jane of Dear Author: Tot got a new 18″ doll from American Girl but we had only one doll bed. So Ned made another doll bed and I set about making a mattress for it. This is the new bed with the doll and the old mattress. I found a [...]

Welcome to the first of several weekly topics. This one is “Wish I’d” where we show you something we wish we’d made, cooked, thought of or otherwise done. If you’re cruising the web and see something you wish you’d… (something crafty or cooking related, preferably!) and would like to guest post, just fill out the [...]

Though I haven’t been doing a lot of sewing or crafting lately, and have a couple of projects that are halfway done needing to be finished, and some promised things to make, I still love to collect fabric. I adore fabric, and find the selection locally kind of depressing now that we’ve gone from three [...]

I don’t know if I have enough crafters reading this blog to do a fabric swap but I’m dying to do one (because I want someone else to pick out some fabric for me, lol) and I know I don’t know enough local people who do crafts to organize one. Would anyone be interested in [...]

A week ago I finally was able to get Amy Butler’s In Stitches from my local library. I paged through it and immediately saw the pattern for these lounge pants (note, this is the picture from the book)template) and I lost a good half hour because I’m using a new sewing machine and had never [...]