I just finished a set of cushion covers for a screen porch wicker set. The client had some beautiful but faded fabric from Thailand that needed an update. She chose a P/Kaufman Lifestyles outdoor fabric in a dramatic black and white damask. Here is the finished product!
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I have had the wire form from a busted lampshade sitting in a box for a few years, waiting for some sort of project. I thought I might make a new fabric or paper cover, but I just never felt like it.
Then I realized, with a lot of bags of plastic beads and some 20 [...]
This week, I’m trying to finish all Works In Progress so that my workroom can be in better order. First up: a lime potholder.
I chose a lime because I got a ball of green yarn and a ball of white yarn in a Salvation Army sewing and craft grab bag for a dollar (along with [...]
I finished up the soccer ball (started here) last night. It was sewn by machine, mostly, except for the last pentagon to close it up.
On the whole, I’m happy with it, and it didn’t take long (maybe 2 hours of sewing altogether). It’s pretty big for a toy, but it might make a great [...]
I just finished a 89.5 inch long (24 inch wide) cushion for a client, which is actually 7.4′. It’s a lot longer than I had pictured in my head. It doesn’t fit in some of the rooms of my house!
It is, obviously, a directional pattern, but the pattern runs along the length (the selvage) of [...]
I just wanted to post a work in process that I’ve been picking up here and there for the last year or so. It’s a cross stitch canvas that is 7 inches x 6.5 inches in cranberry and what Crayola and Wikipedia calls “Brink Pink.” I think the impetus of the motif might have been [...]