Craft an Autumn Wreath! Sew a Simple Grab Bag! Embroider a Pretty Tote! Sew a Skinny Sewing Machine Pincushion! Crochet a Hello Kitty Hat! Scrap Bust a Hexie Hot Pad! Tips from the Kitchen to the Garden! Rehab Your T-Shirts for Fall! Print African Mot (2024)

Artists or art that turns me on and feeds my muse! Like it or dislike it, what about this art inspires your own art or creativity? This is called, French Lace and is a painting by Deborah Elmquist. I’m in awe.

A blonde guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom. He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed,sweating and panting. “What’s up?” he says. “I’m having a heart attack,” cries the woman.

He rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but just as he’s dialing, his 4-year-old son comes up and says,”Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Ted’s hiding in your closet and he’s got no clothes on!”

The guy slams the phone down and storms upstairs into the bedroom, past his screaming wife, and rips open the wardrobe door.

Sure enough, there is his brother, totally naked, cowering on the closet floor.

“You rotten excuse for a human,” says the husband,”my wife’s having a heart attack and you’re running around naked scaring the kids!!!

Look around you. Design is everywhere! How can you incorporate the beauty that surrounds you into your art or craft? Gloria Vanderbilt once “patchworked” a room.

Believe it or not, Tuesday marks September 1 so it’s time to start thinking Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas crafts. This pretty wreath with felt roses is an easy one to use to ease into the season. Here’s the tutorial:

http://craftingmom.com/fall-wreath-with-felt-rosettes/

Here’s how to make a cellu-clay paper mache pumpkin. Don’t stop here, cupcake, give the damn thing some color, design, or textured personality! Here’s where you begin:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-A-CelluClay-Paper-Mache-Pumpkin/

ON YOUR NEWSSTANDS NOW!!!

Pages and pages of my Slow Stitching Movement article and photographs from April’s Slow Stitching Movement Getaway! (HINT: There are a few more Getaways planned this year! More on that in today’s blog.)

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By now, you know I’m a notebook/sketchbook junkie but actually making your own book really appeals to me. Here’s a short tutorial on how to master very, very simple and basic bookbinding! Go for it here:

http://www.justdiy.com/book-binding/

Put all of your Zentanglingand design sketching to work for you. Take a look at the tutorial. You might be surprised at how to pull off this look! Start here:

http://www.poppytalk.com/2012/02/tutorial-african-mud-clothtextile-art.html

Ingredients:

• cucumber
• gin
• Aperol
• lemon twist

Forthe Full Recipe Click Here: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/03/archangel-co*cktail-gin-aperol-cucumber-drink-recipe-milk-and-honey.html

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Aren’t these the cutest bags? Easy and boho and so ready for your appliqué, embroidery, or printmaking touches. Go for broke. Here’s the pattern:

http://www.bhg.com/crafts/sewing/accessories/grab-bags/

I love this idea for a SKINNY pincushion rather than a bulky one hanging from, or in front of, your sewing machine. Here’s how to make one for your own (great gifts for your sewing group, too). Start here:

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/348786/8784029/1285950344627/Skinny+Pincushion.pdf?token=LmWkHce2uNpcA%2F%2BKpJBJtFk7vdc%3D

A potholder and a tea towel are all you need to craft this 5-minute no-slop dish towel combo. Too bad it doesn’t actually clean the kitchen. Oh, well. Here’s the tutorial:

http://www.polishthestars.com/2012/11/5-minute-no-slip-dish-towel.html?&cuid=22f0d34513652c9d070309be9fd4a57a

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

For the Dough:

• flour, or bread flour
• instant yeast
• granulated sugar
• salt
• olive oil
• vanilla extract

For the Topping:

• unsalted butter
• fresh cherries
• apricots
• turbinado sugar

Spending sick says with ….

Granny

Beaver

Lucy

Lisa and Oliver

Jeannie

Rob and Laura

The nerdiest of textile designs! Butcha’ gotta have some – to wear!

See the original article here:http://boingboing.net/2015/08/09/gorgeous-nerdy-textiles.html

I love the tote and I especially love the embroidery! Here’s how to create both:

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/embroidery-project-tote

Get ready for Labor Day, Autumn, Halloween, Christmas and more by adding interesting borders onto panels, or simply learn the technique to make beautiful and themed borders for your own quilt designs or to change up a pattern.

Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski – Part 1

In Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski, Pt. 1, Mark Lipinski – fabric designer and quilter extraordinaire – shows you how to construct and assemble borders for two very fun quilts just in time for the holidays! Follow along as Mark demonstrates how to create festive borders for your Halloween and Thanksgiving quilts. Adopt some great seasonal ideas while getting into the quilting holiday spirit!

You’ll love this quilting video if you:

• Enjoy creating holiday-themed quilts
• Want to express your own creativity in making quilts
• Enjoy quilting for yourself and others

In Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski, you’ll learn how to:

• Strip cut pieces and sew them together for a Halloween quilt
• Use a candy corn template on pieced fabric
• Use various templates to create a fun block for a fun border on a Halloween quilt
• Create a 4 patch corner block for a Halloween-themed border
• Embellish your quilts if desired
• Strip piece a leaf border for a Thanksgiving-themed quilt
• Assemble 9 patch leaf blocks for a border on a Thanksgiving quilt

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Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski – Part 1

Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski, Part 2

In Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski, Pt. 2, Mark Lipinski – fabric designer and quilter extraordinaire – shows you how to construct and assemble a border for a very fun quilt just in time for the holidays! Follow along as Mark demonstrates how to create festive borders for your Christmas quilts. Adopt some great seasonal ideas while getting into the quilting holiday spirit!

You’ll Love This Quilting Video If You:

• Want to add a holiday theme to your quilt borders
• Want to add interest to your borders
• Want to design your own holiday border blocks

InHoliday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski, Pt. 2, You’ll Learn How To:

• Create a random scrappy block for a Christmas quilt border
• Use a Christmas tree template to cut your pieced fabric for a cohesive border
• Sew your strips at various angles for a different or wonky look
• Add visual interest to a Christmas tree border with alternating block placement
• Create a 9-patch Christmas corner block for your quilt border
• Add an interesting binding to a Christmas quilt that emulates piping

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Holiday Borders Using Strips with Mark Lipinski, Part 2

Simple Bindings for Sensational Quilts with Mark Lipinski

In “Simple Bindings for Sensational Quilts with Mark Lipinski,” Mark Lipinski – fabric designer and quilter extraordinaire – shows you how to approach simple bindings with your quilts. Not only will you learn tips on how to add bindings, you’ll also learn how to cut your fabric properly, utilize either hand-stitched or machine-stitched binding and embellish your binding. Mark, and special guest Marie Bostwick – New York Times bestselling author of many quilting novels – pair up to give you an educational and entertaining lesson on all things binding! What a treat!

You’ll Love This Quilting Video If You:

• You’ve made a quilt but are unsure how to bind it
• Want to add some special adornments to your quilt

InSimple Bindings for Sensational Quilts with Mark Lipinski, You’ll Learn How To:

• Make a perfect seam when sewing binding strips together
• Pin your binding to your quilt top, including mitered corners
• Hand stitch binding using a blind or whip stitch
• Machine stitch binding
• Make and add prairie points to the inside of quilt binding
• Attach embellishment to binding such as rickrack, pompoms, and lace ruffles

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Simple Bindings for Sensational Quilts with Mark Lipinski

This foundation pieced table runner is called Beacon Lights, and you can findthe free pattern on the McCall’s site, here:

http://www.mccallsquilting.com/mccallsquilting/articles/Beacon-Lights-FREE-Foundation-Pieced-Table-Runner-Quilt-Pattern

Ingredients:

FOR THE FULL RECIPE, CLICK HERE:http://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2015/02/peanut-butter-cookie-lasagna.html

Gianni Versace Couture 1991 Madonna and Child Runway Leather Jacket,$7,393.38

I know you’re rolling your eyes, but if you don’t start now, or start planning now, you will be in dire straights by the time the holidays roll around (and you know it’s in just a blink of an eye). Upgrade your tree skirt with this no-sew, ruffled version. Here’s how you do it:

http://anwjohnston.blogspot.com/2011/10/diy-no-sew-ruffle-christmas-tree-skirt.html

Carolina HerreraCloud Jacquard Asymmetric Ruffle Gown,$8,990.00

Oh yeah, I need a lazy Susan because I’m too lazy to move a jar of jam or container of yogurt. And vous?

http://simpledetailsblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/5-organizing-tips.html?m=1

Grab your yarn, your needles and knit your way into a warm fall season with this multi-colored knitted blanket. Here’s the pattern:

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2015/08/knit-multi-colored-blanket/

Gucci Horsebit co*cktail Ring, $9350.00

• 18k white gold. diamonds and amethyst
• 195 diamonds, total 0.90 carats
• amethyst total 12 carats
• Made in Italy

I like this quilt. All you needs are solid colors, a little black, and a whole lotta white. Here’s the pattern (and please buy your fabric at your local quilt shop). Here’s the pattern:

http://www.robertkaufman.com/quilting/quilts_patterns/hope_takes_flight/

Manolo Blahnik
Zarina Embroidered Suede Boot, $4380.00

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/Manolo-Blahnik-Zarina-Embroidered-Suede-Boot-Black/prod179930047/p.prod?ecid=NMALRFeedEcj26XL3y4I&ci_src=14110925&ci_sku=sku158670280

I’ve gotten so fat that my t-shirts are automatically ripping into giant leaf-shaped holes. If you like this boho look, then by all means, put your thinking cap on and create this pretty and casual t-shirt from your old, well worn and well loved t-shirt stash. Here’s how:

http://hopestudios.blogspot.com/2010/01/t-shirt-rehab.html

How easy are these to make? So easy, you might want to make a gazillion for everyone you know (hell, pass them out in your supermarket and to passersby on the street!). Here’s the pattern and tutorial:

http://www.marthastewart.com/270705/hankie-holder

Just some practical tips for slow and sustainable living. Take a look:

http://slowfood.com/international/food-for-thought/focus/222844/from-the-kitchen-to-the-garden/q=7F4D76

Yeah, an Ashley Madison hack won’t cut it, dude. BUT. . .

I’m not sure I love this more as a side table or as a potential quilt pattern, but what-evah!

http://natashabaradaran.com/pdfs/karat.pdf

There are NO WORDS for how much I love this crocheted Hello Kitty hat, so I’ll just say

http://www.blogher.com/make-it-yourself-crochet-hello-kitty-hat-pattern

Here’s a great idea for you schlumpy looking sofa pillows:

http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2015/08/25/plump-saggy-sofa-cushions-just-buttons

“The crumb is super tender, since they’re made with pastry flour, with a lovely light orange flavor, and the grapefruit zest in the frosting gives it just the right hint of bitterness.”

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Cupcakes
pastry flour
baking powder
kosher salt
eggs
unsalted butter
granulated sugar
pure vanilla extract
grated orange zest
orange juice
whole milk

Frosting
grapefruit juice
unsalted butter,
grated grapefruit zest
confectioners’ sugar
heavy cream

FOR THE FULL RECIPE, CLICK HERE: http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/2015/08/27/simple-citrus-cupcake-waning-days-summer

Sept. 19th & 21
Woodside Quilting
5360 NE 14th St
Des Moines Iowa 50313
Woodsidequilting .com
(515) 777-3500

Sept. 19 7:30 PM Program – Bull in a China Shop trunk show/lecture
See website for details – purchase tickets at Woodside Quilting.

Sept 19 Class – Throw me a curve Mystery Quilt – 9-3

Sept. 21 Class – Stars and Stripes – 9-3

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East Polk County Quilt Guild
Lutheran Church of the Cross
1701 8th St SW
Altoona, IA
Sunday Sept. 20 Class – Ribbons – 12:30 – 6:30

Monday – Sept. 21 – 7 pm –Lecture– Ways to find Inspiration

Sept. 25th & 21
CALICO GALS

3906 New Court Avenue
Syracuse, New York 13206
www.calicogals.com

(315)445-0617

Sept. 25Lectures– The Stitching Movement2 PM & 6PM

September 26 – Throw Me Mystery Quilt 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Really easy to make and really pretty, too. Put all of your needlework skills to work and be the talk of your next sew-in while you watch your fellow sewists turn green with envy. Here’s how to make this:

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/bags-pillows-gifts/bags-and-purses/sewing-caddy?page=0%2C0

A new Slow Stitching Movement Getaway is now taking reservations!

After the success of last spring’sSlow Stitching Movement Getaway in Lambertville, NJ, we have added another Slow Stitching Movement Getaway this November — in Minneapolis!

Fiber Artists, Cyndi Souder andRuth Chandler will join me for 4 focused, intentional, healingand illuminating days with you stitching.

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Ruth

Cyndi

The Slow Stitching MovementGetaway: Autumn2015

Quilting Arts TV Series 1600

I have two segments on this DVD:

1602: Take it Slow –Watch as Lynn Krawczyk explores artful wool felt color studies with hand stitching. Then, let Mark Lipinski explain the philosophy of the Slow Stitching Movement.

1607: Make it Special –Mark Lipinski shares a variety of legacy quilts, along with his own, to show how to leave a bit of yourself behind. See how Tammie Bowser makes fusible appliqué “Jazz Quilts” from photos. Then, learn how to take your quilts beyond the ordinary when Susan Brubaker Knapp offers tips for machine stitching tiny motifs.

PLUS MANY, MANY MORE WONDERFUL, INFORMATIVE SEGMENTS

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You’re going to need these for your holiday table! Start making them now, while you have the chance! Start here:

http://mypoppet.com.au/makes/2015/08/scrapbusting-hexie-hotpad.html

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