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How to recycle t-shirts to make a memory quilt

August 22, 2010

This will be a short tutorial as there really isn’t too much involved in making a memory t-shirt quilt. I mean, what’s to explain? Cut up old t-shirt fronts and sew them together, right? Wrong. There are some helpful things I learned along the way that I wanted to share just in case you want [...]

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How to make a simple fabric flower

July 15, 2010

I posted a tutorial for a multi-layered fabric flower tutorial last year and it became one of the most viewed tutorials. In fact, Emily’s Little World posted a link to the tutorial on her blog and I was really thrilled to share it. But for this upcycled denim skirt bag that I donated to a [...]

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How to join fabric yarns

January 26, 2010

You saw how easy it is to make fabric yarns yesterday. But what if you have fabric yarns that are too short to make anything? You can join the pieces to make longer yarns, of course. This is a silly simple method of joining them without tying. I cut these strips wide and I’m using [...]

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How to make fabric yarns

January 25, 2010

You know one of my 2010 resolutions was to simplify my life. I finally cleaned out the closets and drawers and came up with four piles. 1) keep 2) dump 3) donate 4) re-purpose Ahhhh…it feels so good to de-clutter. One of the things I made with t-shirts from the “re-purpose” pile was fabric yarns. [...]

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How to add Feedburner E-mail Subscription form

October 1, 2009

I posted about adding content titles to your posts for e-mail subscribers this week and I realized I was ahead of myself. Some of you didn’t know how to add the e-mail subscription form to your blog. There are alot of e-mail management companies that you can use – some are free and some are [...]

How to add content titles to blog feeds

September 29, 2009

I wanted to see what my blog feeds look like in your mail boxes so I signed up for my own blog to see how they looked. This is how they looked when I checked. See how the title is the same and there is no content title for the posts? When they are delivered [...]

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What to do with socks without their partners

July 14, 2009

I put this tutorial for my Eco Etsy Team’s blog a couple of weeks ago and received rave reviews so I thought I’d post it here for those of you who are not a team member. If you are the one who does the laundry in your house, you know the age old mystery – [...]

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Voting starts on my quilted furoshiki

May 19, 2009

Remember my quilted furoshiki wrap and the tutorial? Well, it’s in a contest at Instructable.com and I need your vote. It’ll only take a minute. You have to become a member first in order to vote. The site has amazing instructions to make anything you can imagine – mostly eco-friendly and DIY projects you’d love. [...]

How to make a fabric flower

May 18, 2009

A fan on facebook asked me how she could make this brooch and I thought I’d post a simple tutorial so that you can use up your fabric scraps in a eco-fashionable way. I saw some beautiful flower brooches, hair clips, headbands and fabric necklaces on Etsy and I, too, wondered how to make these [...]

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My first contest entry

April 25, 2009

I was in a weird, enthusiastic and optimistic mood this morning and entered a contest. Yeah, it was my first. I submitted my furoshiki tutorial to a website called Instructable. It is running a Mother’s Day contest and I thought the quilted furoshiki would be perfect for Mother’s Day. Wish me luck!