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Sue Spargo’s Textured Embroidery Craftsy Class

Sue Spargo’s Textured Embroidery Craftsy Class

You might recall that I signed up for two Craftsy courses earlier this year. Today, I present to you my first finished project, from Embroidering Texture and Dimension from Sue Spargo which is a lesson in textured embroidery. I ordered her fabric kit but could not...

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skull pillow & tuatara

skull pillow & tuatara

I would be seeing my bioanthropology friend from New Zealand at a conference so I wanted to make her something - of course I chose a skull pillow! She also brought me a gift; a tuatara - a native reptile of New Zealand. It is from a company called dodoland and there...

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Skull pillow

Skull pillow

I am back from Mexico and will post about that trip some day, but first I wanted to share with you something I whipped up yesterday. I've been invited to go analyze some skeletons discovered by a road construction project and it reminded me that I wanted to make some...

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quilted pillow

quilted pillow

I whipped up a pillow today for my mother-in-law. When she moved to Indy, she gave me a lot of her sewing room items, which included things her mother had worked on. Now that Gayle is moving into her own place back here to be around all us kids, I thought it would be...

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weighted pincushion organizer

weighted pincushion organizer

Sew Mama Sew posted about Elizabeth's Fabric Focus with a free PDF pattern of a weighted pincushion organizer. Now that I am sewing a little more regularly (being mostly jobless this semester, and all), I am constantly frustrated with all the extra threads and fabric...

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Hexagon pillow case

Hexagon pillow case

Today, I finally finished the paper-pieced hexagon pillow case I had been working on. You can read a little bit more about it here. A quick recap is that the flowered piece was sewn by Boy's grandmother who has since passed away. Boy picked out the fabric for the...

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Paper-piecing pillow – WIP

Paper-piecing pillow – WIP

I am at them again, these addicting hexagons! I can only do a little at a time, but this project is coming along. I am using a flower Boy's grandmother had sewn, and decided to make it a pillow for my craft room. I think... I mean, I haven't bought a pillow form just...

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