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06 Aug
Bags

Back-to-School: Edelweiss Backpack

Today's pattern is the Edelweiss Backpack, which is great for either a child or an adult! You can see my original blog post about this pattern here, complete with all of the tester bags (I'm carrying this bag in the original blog post, so you can see what it looks like on an adult). Perfect for back-to-school! You can receive...

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10 Dec
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Kid’s Character Christmas Stockings

Last week (before my kids got sick and the sewing halted for a few days), I decided to sew a couple of stockings. Of course my first instinct was to use some Anna Maria Horner or Amy Butler, but as these were stockings for my kids, I decided to stop being selfish and make them character stockings.The pattern I...

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09 Apr
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Kids Shorts

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! I sewed up my kids some shorts as part of their Easter things. It was sort of funny, because they picked out the fabrics for the shorts a few weeks ago, and every so often they'd walk by my ironing board and ask where the shorts were (my sewing to-do list...

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23 Dec
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New Look 6931 Kid’s Robe

Two weeks before Christmas, my husband decided it would be a great idea to make the kids each a fleece robe for Christmas morning. Thankfully I am reasonably quick with projects otherwise I might have strangled him. So we took the kids to Joann Fabrics and let them each pick out their fleece fabric. After much deliberation, my son...

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16 Oct
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Halloween Pretzels

I picked up these cute Wilton pretzel molds at Joann yesterday for $1.39 each. William picked out the ghosts and the haunted houses, and Violet chose the skeleton fingers.My mom used to make molded candies with us when my brothers and I were little, so I thought it would be fun to make these with William and Violet. I...

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15 Sep
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McCalls 5827 Play Canopy

I made this play tent for my daughter, Violet's, 2nd birthday, which was yesterday. I thought it would be a great present to make myself, because I have seen some tents that looked similar to this one, selling for $200-300. This is definitely something I would have liked to own as a child. :-)Fabric - This tent calls for...

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