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How to Sew Mason Jar Cozies & Ways to Gift Them
How to sew insulated mason jar cozies in two sizes! A PDF pattern and video tutorial.
Printable Christmas Gift Tags for Your Handmade Gifts!
I’m so excited to be re-releasing these sewing humor printable gift tags with a more Christmasy color scheme! The tags are only $4 for all three and are super fast and easy to print and use.
Things to Consider Before Sewing Christmas Gifts
If you’re a crafty person who makes something with your hands, you may be considering giving handmade Christmas gifts this year. I’ve sewn many gifts for friends and family over the years and I’ve learned some things along the way that I now keep in mind every time I’m thinking about making presents, and I’m here to share those with you today!
Sewing Humor Printable Gift Tags
I’m not sure what mood came over me yesterday, but I woke up and starting making printable gift tags for handmade items! I really wanted to make some funny ones, so I came up with three different designs for adding some sewing humor to my sewn gifts. I then listed them in my shop to share with YOU! Keep reading to see all three designs and to get yours from the shop :)
7 Quick-to-Sew Gifts for Mother's Day
Mother’s Day is coming up here in the U.S. and you still have time to sew something nice for your mama! Mother’s Day gifts are better when they’re handmade, no matter the age of your children, don’t you think? I have seven great ideas for DIY Mother’s Day gifts to share with you today and they’re all quick to sew and easy to mail!
6 Unique Things to Sew for Easter
I’ve sewn some very fun things for Easter over the years! I love to round up things I’ve made for various holidays and I’ve made some interesting things for this one. Since this is a holiday that typically involves gifts in the form of Easter baskets, it’s a good opportunity to sew some sweet things that will become a part of great memories.
So, today I’m sharing six things I’ve sewn for Easter over the years. A few of these are decor and a few are things I made my kids to put in their Easter baskets when they were younger. All of my kids are teens now, but I do still give them Easter baskets!
How to Sew an Easy Apron
This sewing tutorial has been a long time coming! In fact, I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to create an apron tutorial because I’ve been making this same exact apron for literally decades. So, a little late, I know, but today I’m sharing with you how to sew a simple kitchen bib apron!
My mom is really the one who deserves credit for this apron, since she’s the one who started making these many years ago. She’s made countless aprons for housewarming gifts, bridal shower gifts, and birthday/Christmas gifts. During my first year of marriage, she made me an apron for every holiday that came along that year. So I had cute aprons in holiday fabrics to wear for years to come! So cute and clever.
How to Sew Easy Kitchen Tea Towels, 2 Ways
I have a great, easy kitchen sewing tutorial for you today! I wanted to sew a little something for Mothers Day gifts and I had the best little border print in my drawer, just perfect for some pretty, sewn tea towels. DIY kitchen towels are so easy and they make such sweet gifts. Also, these tea towels somehow last a very long time. I received a few from my sister when I was first married and while other kitchen towels have come and gone, I still use the ones she made!
I’ve since made even more tea towels for myself after scoring a couple of fun prints and a heathered linen at Hobby Lobby in the clearance bin recently. A ruffle and/or fun trim take these kitchen towels to the next level, so I went ahead and filmed a video tutorial to share with you here.
Moleskine Cahier Journal Cover Tutorial
I’ve been using the basic brown Moleskine Cahier Notebooks for many years. I’m a big fan! I like that they’re small and lightweight, the lines are the perfect distance apart, and best of all, the covers are a blank slate, easy to decorate or embellish!
I’ve given these notebooks as gifts with pretty art or quotes Mod Podged to the front, but I recently came up with the more reusable idea of sewing up some simple journal covers for them! These covers turned out so sweet, were very easy to make, and were a great way to use some single quilt blocks I had lying around. I can see myself making these for Christmas gifts next year, with a Moleskine journal included, of course.
DIY Fast & Easy Fabric Gift Tags (Sewing Optional!)
I made something so fun and I’m excited to share it with you! I had bought some very cool gift tag fabric from JoAnn last year and knew I’d eventually turn it into some DIY Christmas gift tags of some kind, but I just didn’t get around to it and I wasn’t sure how to make it a very simple, fast project.
But, inspiration struck this year and I had a great idea for how to turn this fabric into tags, AND how to turn any fun Christmas fabric into pretty and personal gift tags this Christmas. These tags are easy and fast, plus they can be a no-sew project if you so choose. You can even reuse them from year to year, or put them on your Christmas tree as ornaments!
How to Sew Easy Pot Holders with Hand Pockets
I’m reviving a tutorial from my old blog for these handy, easy to sew DIY pot holder mitts. I sewed a bunch of these up for Christmas that year, so I tried to create a design that was easy to mass produce — no fussy bindings or anything like that! I think it would be fun to whip up another batch this many years later, to gift to my current local friends, which is why I went looking for my old tutorial!
I love this style of pot holder in particular because it has pockets for your hands, so you’re not in as much danger of burning yourself as you are when using a basic square pot holder. Also, when cooking with kids, these mitts are great because they can grasp pans more easily that when wearing huge, clunky oven mitts!