If you’ve got a sewing machine and a love for fabric, why not try out these home sewing projects? Sewing projects for the home is great for beginning seamstresses, and anyone who wants to give their home a little more DIY personality and color. These easy home sewing projects are a perfect place to start in your DIY home decorating adventures!
Ever thought about how to make tab top curtains? Custom curtains are one of the best ways to put your own personality stamp onto your house. The good news is that tab top curtains are super easy to sew. Tab top curtains make for a casual look you can use and love in kids’ bedrooms, …
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Let’s talk how to make an ironing board cover. Let’s be honest…. If you sew a lot, you know how gross your ironing board cover can get. Scorch marks, bitlets of old fusible interfacing and any number of other weird marks just get on your cover over time. A fresh ironing board cover is what …
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Got an old hall tree or a window seat in your home that’s in need of a makeover? Here’s how to sew a cushion cover for a bench. Box cushions and window seat cushions are no harder to sew than a simple pillow cover, but they can add so much style and comfort to a …
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Love the look of custom drapes but can’t find what you want—here’s how to make back tab curtains. Tab top curtains are some of the easiest curtains to make, but we’re going to dress them up by putting the tabs on the backside of the curtain. Custom curtains add so much life to a room, …
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Today we’re talking how to upholster a storage bench. Why bother, you ask? Well, plain storage benches usually have lifeless neutral fabric with zero personality. When said boring fabric gets gross from life with kids, I start looking at it, knowing it could be better. I’ll show you how to break down a storage bench. …
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Today we’re talking all about framing a scarf. Not too long ago a reader asked me how to frame a Hermes silk scarf. While I don’t own any Hermes silk scarves, in our conversation I realized that I’ve framed a lot of vintage scarves and I have opinions about how to do it! Vintage scarves …
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We’re making DIY ombre curtains today! This is the project for those times you want fresh room decor and can’t find any decent curtain fabric. As someone who has spent far far too many hours combing Ebay and Etsy for the *right* curtain fabric, I’ll tell you now you might not find it. Thankfully you …
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Once upon a time I made a DIY floor pouf. Many feet have been happy resting on it. My kids have rolled on it, built forts with it, used it for pillow wars, created cozy hobbit holes and many more things. Lately, it’s been starting to come apart at the seams. Crafty me, I saw …
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Today we’re breathing some new life into 2 boring lampshades with these 2 easy DIY lampshade makeovers. Lampshades are a funny thing. You don’t notice them in a room, but when you take a few minutes to spruce them up, you’ll wonder why you never paid attention to them before. Even better, this is a …
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Today we’re talking about how to make curtains with grommets. I always love how much DIY curtains can totally transform a room. Maybe it’s because I love big scale prints but rarely would sew a big scale print as a garment. Whatever the case, sewing your own curtains is a big time chance to add …
