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Christmas in July : Day 7

Christmas in July : Day 7

Here we are one week in to our Christmas in July Series. We made It! And to celebrate lets try the CKC knotted headband. This is a tutorial available on the CKC Pinterest board and blog. The blog says to use hosiery and cut the tops and bottoms off but I wanted to use some of my DBP scraps so I cut 2 pieces about 4-5 inches wide and about 30 inches long. I followed the blogs instructions for the knot then sewed the ends together and folded the width over so the seam was on the inside of the...

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Christmas in July : Day 6

Christmas in July : Day 6

Day 6 in our Christmas in July Series an we are looking at Petite Stitchery & Co's needle organizer.  If you have sewing friends on you list ( I think this includes yourself)  this is a good project to add to the todo list.  Great to use up some cotton woven scraps, and I cheated a bit on the materials list. I don't have any clear vinyl and wasn't about to drive an hour to go get some so in a rare stoke of genius I decided to cut up one of my sheet protectors and try that. Well let...

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Christmas in July : Day 5

Christmas in July : Day 5

Well 5 days in, lets see what we have for today..  Duck Butt Designs Plain Pants. So funny ( or not) story about this pattern, I just assumed it was a kids photo based on the cover photo. So when I grabbed it off the printer I was really confused as to why there were so many darn pages. Well needless to say I had to change my fabric choices because I was planning on using scraps to make them for son.  Lesson learned actually read the description on patterns before downloading and printing.  However it ended up being a...

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Christmas in July : Day 4

Christmas in July : Day 4

Day 4 of our Christmas in July free pattern series brings us to the Hey June  girls Racerback dress. One great thing about this pattern is at least in the smaller sizes if offers a lot of fun with our in-house panels.  I made a 3T for our daughter using one adult panel and our Heathered DBP.  The back of this dress can easily be made using gathers or pleats. I went for a finger pleat mostly because I dint want to get my sewing machine out in the middle of serging. I have a smaller work space so only...

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Christmas in July : Day 3

Christmas in July : Day 3

Day 3 brings us to Made for Mermaids gift bag/wine bag.   This is a free pattern available on m4m website. I highly recommend joining their face book group too, I see so much inspiration in that group and everyone is very friendly.  This DIY offers a neat way to dress up a simple gift.  A last minute bottle of wine becomes a well thought out gift simply by adding this cute bag. This bag is as easy as it gets. a couple straight lines, a hem, and a scrap of lace or ribbon and tada you are all fancy...

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