The Communique Layout
Popularized by Rhonda Dort, who uses the layout in her classes, the Communique Quilt Layout works for both featuring large fabric and panel pieces, as well as a basis for multiple block designs.
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Welcome to Mouse in My Pocket! I'm Andrea, a web developer living in rural America with her husband and daughter. I'm excited to share my life with you as I explore some of the great things about living in the middle of nowhere. Be sure to check out the blog below to see a few of the things that are speaking to me right now.
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Rock the Red Pump
Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) and I’m proudly (and fiercely) Rocking the Red Pump with over 1,200 of my fellow bloggers from around the country (and the world). NWGHAAD is recognized on March 10th of every year with the goal is of bringing women together to encourage dialogue and educate…
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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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Wee Bit: March 9th
{one} what color is your kitchen? off white, the color of the rest of my house. (We rent) {two} do you have a good luck charm? my husband. {three} do you prefer to write with a pen or pencil? Sharpies! I can never keep a pencil. {four} can you use chopsticks? I love to use them……
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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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Craft Month 2011 – Day 8 – Hair Wrap
Today’s project is a hair wrap. It as actually really simple to make… or it would have been if I hadn’t insisted on folding and ironing all of my fabric too avoid edges. I cut some fabric into 2 inch strips and folded it the way bias tape is folded – with the edges to…
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Craft Month 2011 – Day 7 – Burnt Silk Flowers
Today I’m going to show you some cute silk flower clips I made over the weekend. I really like these clips, because they were simple to make, and gave me a nice project for my silk remnants. To make these flowers, I simply cut some circles out of my silk fabric. I used 3 –…
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Craft Month 2011 – Day 6 – Mod Podge Cityscape
If you’ve been reading my blog, I’m sure you already know that it’s national craft month and I’m trying to make a project a day all month. I’m proud to say that I haven’t missed a day yet. But, since it’s sunday. Today is a simple project.
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Craft Month 2011 – Day 5 – Felt Flower Dahalia
It’s the fifth day of craft month and I am still going strong. Whoo! Today’s project is brought to you by a tutorial for Fabric Dahalias from Holidash. I used this project as a test for some thicker, more wool like felt that I had laying around. I bought it for it’s beautiful chocolate brown…
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Craft Month 2011 – Day 4 – Handmade Book
It’s already the 4th day of National Craft month, and I have to say I’m very proud of myself for having not missed a day yet. I’ve got a lot of things going on right now, but it’s really refreshing to sit down and craft for a bit in the evening. I’m very proud of…
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Craft Month 2011 – Day 3 – Flower Pins
Ok, so today, I am totally cheating, and taking an idea from Craft Snob. Today, I am making some flower pins with fake flowers from the store.
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Wee Bit: March 2nd
It’s time yet again for another Wee Bit Wednesday. Find out more about me than you ever wanted to know. {one} do you wear holey jeans? if so, do you buy them that way? i never buy jeans with holes. I like crisp dark jeans. The only way I wear them with holes are when…
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Craft Month 2011 – Day 2 – Applique Headband
Today is day #2 of National Craft Month, and this is my second post about it. Impressive, huh? Today I’m going to show you some cute little headbands I made, which are VERY simple to make.
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