Fabric is a medium for fun, and here you’ll find DIY fabric dye techniques, DIY upholstery projects and tutorials, all about block printing on fabric, and other DIY fabric ideas that’ll have you making crafts with fabric, and help you create your own fabric.
Let’s talk about how to dye polyester fabrics and other synthetics. Real talk: you can’t always find fabric to work with that’s exactly what you want it to be. The good news is that with rare exception the color of your fabric is editable. I use this process all the time, and I promise you …
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Let’s chat about how to upholster a kitchen chair. Once upon a time my Great Grandma had a beautiful red ice formica table and chairs. I sat around those, learned to pull strudel standing at it and had many many home cooked meals with little burned bits with lots of love. One day I vowed …
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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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Today we’re talking all about the essential tools you need to get started in DIY upholstery. We’ve all bought or inherited furniture with drab or worn out fabric. The cool thing about DIY upholstery is that with a few tools and some awesome fabric, you can fix that situation. I like to think of upholstery …
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Today is DIY Christmas cards day, and these ones are going to tell a story. For a long while now I’ve loved vintage sewing patterns, and truth be told, I’m always looking for creative ways to use their illustrations. For this project, you’ll be pairing up handmade ornaments with a basic card that you sew. …
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I am not a Cricut user, but as more and more of my friends have been playing around with this fun crafting machine, I’ve become Cricut curious. And one of the things I’ve been wondering about is how to cut felt with a Cricut. Big thanks to my friend Kathi for being my Cricut coach …
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Today we’re talking all about how to sew a DIY felt garland with some serious winter fun. If there’s one thing I love around the holidays, it’s a fresh bit of snow. Watching the snow fall while smelling some fresh gingerbread cookies, and I’d call that pretty much a perfect day. Sadly, cookies don’t last …
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Dyeing with bleach might be one of the most interesting ways to add some texture and design to plain fabric. If you think about it, designers have been using bleach on jeans for forever. It’s for good reason. A little bleach with a little thought can totally change the look. A standard pair of jeans …
Maybe you don’t buy nail polish just to make hand painted buttons like I do, but I just bet you love a beautiful button. The more I look to make garments I really love, the harder it seems to find good quality buttons. So many buttons these days are just not that interesting! Ah, but …
