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Last-Minute Table Cloth

I hope all my friends in the U.S. had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Did you eat enough? Shop enough?We had dinner at our house for the first time. I wanted to use the Anna Maria Horner fabric below for a tablecloth, but my friend Kim told me it was too good to chance having food spilled on. ;-)So I ran out to...

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Amy Butler Weekender Bag

I finished this bag yesterday and breathed a huge sigh of relief. I have made many bags before, but this is the most difficult. The multiple layers of Peltex interfacing you need to sew through, combined with the cording, make it really tricky (although, this is the last step in assembling the exterior; getting through all the other steps...

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Thrift Store Fabrics for Sewing

Two twin-sized bed sheets ($6)I was reading some of the blogs that I follow after the kids got up from their nap, and Emmmy Lizzzy's post about vintage pillowcases stuck in my head (go there! She's also having a giveaway!). So tonight when my husband suggested we go out for dinner, instead of a sit-down restaurant, I asked if we could...

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