Tag: fabric

DIY Dolly Round-up

A custom-made fabric doll is a great gift idea for your favorite kid and are great stash-busting projects; all you need to dress up a dolly is to dig into your scrap bin for a few bits of pretty fabrics and trims! … More

Guatemalan Textiles

Linda C. Teufel documented her recent trip to Guatemala with thousands of gorgeous photographs. Here she tells about some of the beautiful textiles and quilts she saw. So much color! You’ll also want to check out her blog at http://dragonthreadsopenbook.blogspot.com/ … More

Chevron Fever

While a single chevron is a V shape made with a line or a stripe, rows of chevrons next to each other create zigzags. And, these repeating chevrons have been turning up in all kinds of sewing projects lately – here are some of my favorites! … More

Getting Ready to Garden!

Here in Chicago we’re starting to pull things together for the much anticipated gardening seaseon (is it spring yet?), including taking stock of our gardening “stuff”. I was thinking – what better way to keep all of our tools in order than to stitch up a few organizers? It didn’t take me long to find a bunch of awesome tutorials and projects – and here are my favorites! … More

Pretty Anchors by Tula Pink

Our final BRENINA Sewing Celebrity is Tula Pink! She describes herself as having a dark sense of humor buried in a sea of print and patterns, playing with images the way a poet plays with words and turning innocuous traditional designs into mischievous little critters. … More