How-To: Customize Your Dress Form
Kari at The {New New} Blog has a fascinating tutorial on how to customize your dress form so that the body proportions are more accurate through various forms of padding.
Yarncraft
How-To: Make a Felt Zipper Pouch With Cupcake Appliqué
Sarah of paper-and-string shares a tutorial for making these cute little felt zipper pouches, and includes a pattern for the cute cupcake appliqué piece on the front. She’s even set up a Flickr group for folks who create their own pouches based on her tutorial.
Easter Finger Puppets
Knit up these super cute Easter Finger Puppets by Whitney of The Purl Bee. I love the little chick!
T-Shirt Pillow Tutorial
When you can’t mend it anymore, A Patchwork World transforms her friend’s daughter, Ava’s favorite T-shirt into huggable pillow in her T-shirt pillow tutorial.
How-To: Patching Pants with Stylish Stitches
Here’s yet another way to patch a hole in a pair of pants. I was inspired by a pair of jeans I saw on my friend Gina, and I asked her, “did you do that?” She said, “no, I bought them this way.” So here’s a way to use lots of zigzag stitches to patch […]
CRAFT Pattern Podcast: “The Party’s Over” Embroidery Pattern
This week’s CRAFT Pattern Podcast features this adorable embroidery pattern “The Party’s Over” by Tamie Snow of Pimp Stitch and Roxycraft. Stitch this on a favorite bag or clothing, or on a piece a fabric to adorn on your wall. Find more patterns and how-to’s on embroidery at the Pimp Stitch blog! Download the Pattern […]
How-To: Repair Ripped Out Slipcover Seams
Mending is catching on everywhere these days as ModHomeEcTeacher on Curbly shows you how to repair ripped out slipcover seams. See more related mending posts in our Mending Month archives.