Tag: sewing
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Trick-or-Treat Gesso Paint Can: Sewing Instructions
If you’ve been over to Spoonfower recently, you’ll have been introduced to my L’Artiste Paint Palette Halloween Costume: And now here in this post, you can find the sewing instructions for the accompanying L’Artiste Gesso Paint Can trick-or-treat bag! Because we can’t forget the candy collecting! Here’s how to assemble your very own: 1. …
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When News Travels…
Aka, when you know full well that once you’ve made one kid’s wishes come true, you’re going to have to immediately do it for any others within earshot, you get in there like a champ and transform this request: into…THIS!!!! BOOOOOYAH!!!!!! Yep, that’s right. A (fully removable) wee baby stuffie in the pouch of a…
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Transforming a Kidlet Drawing into a Yeti Stuffie
Oh, what do I do on a lazy Sunday to wind down from post-party/holiday festivities? Give myself the challenge of transforming my art director kidlet’s Yeti drawing into the stuffie he imagined it to look like. Although I see a few flaws, my client is 100% satisfied, which is always good news. The silver metallic…
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November’s Awkward Animal Portraits Pattern Release is Here!
It’s time for our next installment of the Awkward Animal Portraits series! So who’s this pattern is for? Wait for it, wait for it…the birds!!! (hardy har har) What better way to celebrate these fine feathered living dinosaur friends of ours than to give you not one, not two, not three, but FOUR festive ways…
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Awkward Animal Portraits Series: Seasonal Special Edition
If you’ve been following along with our Awkward Animal Portraits (AAP) quilt pattern series, you’ll know we’re now ready to humanely release our October creature, and in true nocturnal partying weekend style, a certain someone is oh-so-fashionably late, but as we know, better late than never. So without further delay, please welcome our first Seasonal Special…
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Official Debut: Awkward Animal Portraits!
I’m very excited to share with you the launch of a brand spanking new harebrained project! WOOOOHOOOOO! After much intensive behind-the-scenes work and top secret scheming with partner-in-crime in this feral endeavor, Jessee Maloney, we are proud to reveal our brand new Awkward Animal Portraits (AAP) quilt pattern series! Beginning today, we will be releasing…
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Catch of the Day: Mermaid Tail Beach Blankets!
Splish! Splash! I’ve got a fresh new DIY project out today over on the Spoonflower blog: my fresh-from-the-seas Mermaid Tail Beach Blankets! There are not one but two fun design options to pick from and, get this, they both come in adult and kid sizes! Woohoo! Full rainbow gradient fun printed on a perfectly snuggly minky substrate,…
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SK’s Chocolate Milk Tent Debuts!
Did you catch it on Tuesday? The great folks at Spoonflower have just debuted their first-ever catalog (both in print and online) of wonderful custom fabric offerings. I designed this Chocolate Milk Tent project exclusively for the catalog debut and you can check it out in all its tasty goodness on page 41! Plus, my Hungry Monster…
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GEOGRAM Blog Hop Wrap-Up!
Well, well, well. Here we are. It’s the week after QuiltCon, my quilts arrived home safely from the show before I could even get my bag unpacked. Then I went head-first into three big projects this week with hot deadlines of TODAY. So what better thing to do, but to cram in my final Geogram Blog…
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My New Design Class Launches Today!
BIG FUN NEWS!!!! I’m SO excited to announce my new class, Designing Patterns That Work: Creating Motifs for Products, launching today on Skillshare in collaboration with Spoonflower! If you’ve ever wanted to try pattern designing for the first time or to expand on what you already know, I think this class will be perfect for…