PICTORIAL: The Table Running Trivet
Get ready for the holidays by protecting your table with a table runner that doubles as a hot pad (or "trivet")!
Thanksgiving! I haven't forgotten about it. I'm already planning the dishes in my head that I'll be preparing and serving family style. I'm mentally choosing the serving plates and trays I'll be using. And I'm wondering how I'll protect my table from all that hot food. With a table runner-length insulated-trivet/hot-pad, of course! I've been meaning to sew one since I first hosted extended family for a meal and had to use a mish-mash of pot holders and trivets. As I planned to finally sew it I realized I could make it reversible for year-round use; as I sewed I realized I could write down the directions of my version to share here. So here's a bonus Thursday pictorial post, in case you feel like sewing one up before next Thursday.
Couch Craft: Holiday Crochet Planter Cover (with Pattern!)
Take an inexpensive house-plant and make it special with the Holiday Crochet Planter Cover pattern!
It's almost time to deck the halls with red and green! (I know last week I was all "Halloween, YAY!," and now I'm all "Christmas, WooHoo!," and you're all "I'm getting whiplash over here and what about Thanksgiving anyway?" Welcome to my brain.) The end of November means it's time to change out the crochet planter covers in my kitchen. This month while watch-listening to TV I crocheted up a few Santa-inspired sleeves so my plants can spread the Christmas cheer, and I've written it down so you can, too.
Inspire Us Thursday, November 13!
November! Time for holiday crafting and you've come to the right place to be inspired. ...it's Inspire Us Thursday! Time to show it off, link it up, and click around! Link up your creations in fiber: sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting, crochet, the fiber of your choice.
Today, find inspiration by clicking on a project the SAME color as your current project -- even if the project is in a medium you don't work in. You'll find inspiration looking at creations made in someone else's studio, who knows where it will take you. But first, click here:
Today, find inspiration by clicking on a project the SAME color as your current project -- even if the project is in a medium you don't work in. You'll find inspiration looking at creations made in someone else's studio, who knows where it will take you. But first, click here:
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| Last week's most viewed link: This clever little Camera Lens Cloth Pouch from Sum of their Stories, keeps the lens cloth safe from falling to the ground -- you'll have to click through to see how. AND it's a tutorial so you can make one for yourself. |
Halloween 2014: Anatomy of a Tarantula (Costume)
I know, I know, your brain is so far past Halloween that you're mentally stuffing turkeys and already using your best pen to check your gift lists twice. But if I don't get this down and documented now it will be gone. So humor me and think back on glowing jack-o-lanterns and too much candy. [Tangent: Why are all those people giving my kindergartner fist-fulls of candy anyway?! One piece is fine, thankyouverymuch.] That same child with a literal overflowing bucket of candy (seriously enough with the candy, people!) had a very clear vision of what she wanted to be this year: I present to you Hairy Tarantula, Age Five.
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| All eight of these arms gave me a hug and it was wonderful. |
Inspire Us Thursday, November 8!
November! How did that happen?! Are you gearing up for Holiday gift creating? Or did you finish checking your list twice before Labor Day and now need a craft to pass the time? [Really? Go you!] Either way you've come to the right place to be inspired. Today, find inspiration by clicking on a project in a medium different from your current project -- if you sewed up a quilt, click on a yarn project; if you've been working counted cross-stitch, click through to a sewn garment. You'll find inspiration looking at creations made in someone else's studio, who knows where it will take you.
And now on with the show...it's Inspire Us Thursday! Time to show it off, link it up, and click around! Link up your creations in fiber: sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting, crochet, the fiber of your choice.
And now on with the show...it's Inspire Us Thursday! Time to show it off, link it up, and click around! Link up your creations in fiber: sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting, crochet, the fiber of your choice.
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| Last week's most viewed link: Check out this super cozy Crochet Poncho by Anna Simple Crochet. Click through for the directions and hook one for yourself. |
TUTORIAL: Hand Sanitizer Jacket
Always have sanitizer at hand perfectly coordinated with your accessories when you sew up this Hand Sanitizer Jacket.
It's that time of the year, when the Halloween decorations are still up but the seasonal music station is already playing the Christmas tunes. That time of the year when you realize the gift list is longer than you thought (how many teacher's does The Peanut have?!) and your grand plans of going all hand-made are already slipping away before the turkey has even been purchased. I'm here to help with a simple, seriously quick little project that is perfect for teachers, new moms, workplace grab bags, and stockings everywhere. Pull some indoor/outdoor home dec out of the remnant bin, grab a few metal buttons and coordinating elastic, then pull up a chair and follow along step by step to sew a custom jacket for your travel hand sanitizer. You'll have a dozen presents checked off your list before the last leaf falls.
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