Craft Month 2011 – Day 28 – T-Shirt Scarf

In honor of the return of cold weather… AND SNOW… (yes really snow – full disclosure – I’m doing this post a couple days ahead of time, and hopefully by the time this actually goes live, there will be no snow) I bring you a use for all of your old tees that you just…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 22 – Printing Custom Fabric

I found a great place online that allows you to print your own custom fabric.  You can check it out for yourself at www.spoonflower.com  but… if $18-$32/yard isn’t in your budget, you can make your own.  Now, I have only tried this for small sizes, no larger than 8×10.5inches. To print my fabric, I create…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 20 – Embroidery

For today’s craft project, I thought I would try something that I have never done before.  I did some embroidery.  I started with a cute image I found online, which I printed it out and traced onto my fabric.  Then I did a lot of backstitching.  I’m very excited about how the final project turned…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 14 – Book Bag

Today’s project is really awesome!  I made a purse out of an old book.  I’m very excited about how this project turned out. I got to make use of the cover of a book that was falling apart (I’m trying to come up with ideas for the pages.  Leave me a comment if you have any ideas.) I…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 10 – Hot Iron Travel Pouch

Today’s national craft month project can be done aas a sewing project, or a hot glue project.  I did mine as a hot glue project, because I couldn’t get the layers of fabric through my sewing machine. This travel pouch was made for my travel size flat iron.  It’s an amazingly simple project.  For this…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 9 – Simple Elastic Waist Skirt

Today’s craft project is a my first sewing project for national craft month. I don’t normally do sewing projects, because I always seem to have issues with my sewing machine. It’s usually the tension, but this was such a cool project, that I had to try it. This skirt was actually really simple. I took…

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