How to Sew a Faux Fur Pom Pom

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Fur pompoms are trending again, adding a touch of whimsical floof to hats, backpacks, key fobs, and more. They also make great little creatures and cat toys! Faux fur pompoms are so easy to sew, you don’t need to buy them. Here’s how to sew a faux fur pom pom. For this faux fur pompom…

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Life’s a Picnic – Free Roll Up Picnic Blanket Tutorial

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Picnic without fear of wet bottoms or nasty picnic tables! Everyone is getting outside right now and we’ve got a simple tutorial for you for a BIG, fabulous, portable picnic blanket that will keep you dry and clean and snacking in style. It also makes a great emergency blanket to leave in the car, since…

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How to Make Roll Up Pants or Shorts using Potato Chip or any Pattern

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What’s better than making something for our kids that’s not only practical, but versatile and fashionable too?!  I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve had to roll up my kids’ pants or shorts, only to have them fall right back down.  Well today we’re solving that issue by showing you how…

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Quick Seam Finishes – Tutorial Tuesday

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If you’re anything like me, then you want your handmade clothing to look as pretty on the inside as it does on the outside.  Finishing your seams doesn’t need to take a long time, but it’s definitely worth that extra effort to keep them from unraveling!  Today I’m going to share with you a few…

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Free Kitty Cat Pocket Pattern and Tutorial

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Kitty Cat Pocket Pattern and Tutorial First, download the free cat pocket pattern piece:  TDD Kitty Pocket.  Then print at 100% or to your personal preference – the finished pocket printed at 100% is 4.5″ wide and 4″ long. As directed on the pocket pattern piece, cut two kitty shapes per pocket. Embellish the kitty…

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Foldover Patch Pocket Tutorial featuring Perfect A Line Dress Pattern

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Welcome to Tie Dye Diva’s stop on the Enchanted collection blog tour, how to sew a foldover patch pocket! We’re sponsored by Riley Blake Designs and thankful to Dodi Poulsen of Two Sisters at Squirrel Hollow for again asking us to sew up one of her new collections – her designs are always perfect for children’s…

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Easy Placket Tutorial – Avoiding the Continuous Lap Placket (if you must!)

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Today we have an easy placket tutorial for you. We’ve done a few continuous lap placket tutorials here for the skirt portion of a dress or back of a top. I love them! Some people don’t. So here’s a way to do a very simple alternative to the placket.  It’s not my preferred method because…

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Free Heart Pocket Tutorial featuring The Storybook Pinafore Sewing Pattern

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For this Late for a Date blog hop, we chose two of our patterns that suit the Wonderland collection perfectly. First we made an Easy Peasy Peasant dress from the adorable pocket watch print Late for a Date in Blue and paired it with a solid white Storybook Pinafore made using the Cross Back Modification…

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Man’s Dress Shirt to Girl’s Peasant Dress Upcycle

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It’s so easy to upcycle a man’s dress shirt into a peasant dress! Here’s how. You’ll need: Man’s dress shirt. Peasant dress pattern like Easy Peasy Peasant Dress pattern Elastic You can use any peasant dress pattern for this tutorial, but I hope you don’t mind if we plug ours (linked above)- it has a…

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Riley Blake Lulabelle Blog Tour and Inseam Pocket Tutorial

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Welcome to our stop on the beautiful Lulabelle Collection blog tour, we’re so happy to bring you this useful and fun inseam pocket tutorial! I hope you’re enjoying the fresh colors and sweet designs in this collection. I had so much fun sewing it up, and the talented designer, Dodi Poulson, was wonderful to work…

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