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Sewing

Tips, tricks, and tutorials, everything from hand-sewing to that dang-blasted Wal-mart rip-off curse of my existence serger, can be found below:

Fat Quarter Cloth Napkins

Superhero Cape Pattern

Using an Eyelet Setter

Camera Strap Cover

Oliver + S Puppet Show Shorts



 Waldorf Pocket Dolls

Dinosaur Log Cabin T-Shirt Quilt

How to Repair Adjustable Elastic-Waist Pants

Log Cabin Courthouse Steps Quilt Block

Jersey Knit Bias Tape

Jersey Knit Sheet Skirt

Patch Applique

Reverse Applique Handprint Turkey Shirt

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Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion

What's on Crafting a Green World Today?

  • Crafting a Green World
    Sew a Puff Quilt Part 3: Piece and Finish the Quilt - So

Crafty Blogs

  • Brown Eyed Baker
    The Weekend Dish: 8/30/2025 - The Weekend Dish: 8/30/2025 Happy last Saturday in August! WHAT?! How did we get here? We were just celebrating the last day of school and here we are at ...
  • Art Teacherin' 101
    My Top 10 Favorite Line Lessons! - *Welcome to my Top Ten Line Lessons!* Since I have been sharing so many LINE lessons on my blog lately (with more to come, yay!), I thought I'd create a bl...
  • In Color Order
    Quilted Tea Towel Pillow Cover - I have another recent pillow project to share! I thrifted this vintage tea towel so long ago that I can't even find a photo of it! Honestly, it could hav...
  • apple franca
    Helsinki part 2: What we did - This is part 2 or my Helsinki write up, see part 1 about where we stayed and what the city is like. This one is all the attractions we visited. It’s gett...
  • FanningSparks
    Catch My Drift - [image: Tree Driftwood at Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia @FanningSparks]There’s a gorgeous macrame wall hanging in the seaside Airbnb where we’re spending ...
  • FanningSparks
    Catch My Drift - [image: Tree Driftwood at Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia @FanningSparks]There’s a gorgeous macrame wall hanging in the seaside Airbnb where we’re spending ...
  • The Polkadot Chair
    Twelve Inch Basket Quilt Block Pattern; A Step By Step Guide - [image: Green and blue basket quilt block on gray background] Learn how to create a simple Basket Quilt block using squares and half-square triangles with ...
  • Slice of Pi Quilts
    These shoes were made for....sewing! - Laura of Slice of Pi Quilts is sharing a unique finish this week - shoes! Hop over to her post to see how she made her own fabric shoelaces!
  • smitten kitchen
    double chocolate zucchini bread - Oh you wanted a chocolate zucchini bread recipe? Don’t you know this is a food blog? I’m contractually obligated to tell a meandering and infuriatingly i...
  • Jenny's Crayon Collection
    36 Posca Oil Based Colored Pencils - These are 36 uni Posca Pencils. They are oil based pencils, 4.0mm thick lead. On the Posca website it says these have a creamy glide with vivid colors. T...
  • Papercrafts and other fun things
    A STEM Project: A Square Cube Vase: Where Math Becomes Art - A Square Cube Vase: Where Math Becomes Art Have you ever wondered what happens when geometry, code, and creativity come together in a single project? This...
  • Project Run and Play
    A New Chapter for Project Run and Play - With the new year comes new changes to Project Run and Play.First, all new blog posts going forward will be shared on the shop website, projectrunandplay....
  • Bear, Dolly and Moi
    Christmas crafting: it was a busy month! - This December was very busy with a lotof crafting, sewing, quilting, baking.I found it easier to share on Instagram(not something I thought I would say) So ...
  • CLONEHENGE
    Happy Solstice! Clonehenge Says Good Bye :’-( - Happy solstice and happy/merry other end of the year holidays to all! May 2024 surprise us by being wonderful. Friends, when I started Clonehenge the inter...
  • EPBOT
    Epbot Is Changing: It's Time To PIVOT - Hi, friends! Happy Friday! You probably noticed I've been doing more video content lately, mostly to stay afloat on social media. It's been a hard adjust...
  • flax & twine | craft + diy
    Knit a Pair! The Amazing Pauly Flax Potholders - The happiest kitchen table starts with little handmade touches… and ends with sips and sweets! Introducing the Pauly Flax Potholder Kit, the perfect comp...
  • Serving Pink Lemonade
    Snow Globe Ornament (Gifts Kids Can Make) - I ran into these laminated snow globe ornaments on Crafty Morning last year and thought they were so cute and clever. My kids helped me to make some to ...
  • Quilt Art by Lena Pugachova
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My Special Interests

  • A year of reading the world
    Book of the month: Nauja Lynge - This month, a dream came true. I spent two weeks visiting Greenland with my hero, legendary Togolese explorer Tété-Michel Kpomassie, sixty years after he f...
    2 days ago
  • The Pioneer Girl Project
    The Wilder Family Business - The family business of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane was writing for publication. It was a joint venture, employing the capital of...
    2 days ago
  • Sewhooked
    Upside Down & Inside Out (TTMT #845 Life Changes & Sewing Room Reconfiguration) - This was a hard one for me. Trigger warning for discussion of cancer and death. Feel free to skip this one if you need to. I spent the last couple of weeks...
    5 days ago
  • The Geometry Code
    AI Geometric Art Tools - This post will pose more questions than answers, since it seems we’re still in the “wild west” early days of popular adoption of a plethora of AI offerin...
    6 days ago
  • MathHappens
    MathHappens @ The Buda Library - On Wednesday, July 30th, 2025, MathHappens joined Buda Library for the final event of their summer programming. MathHappens staff, Matt Hertel and Austi...
    3 weeks ago
  • Use Resources Wisely
    Finding requirements for retired badges and interest projects - I've heard from more and more leaders who want their girls to find badges that meet their interests. They're not content to a few dozen options, or the vag...
    9 months ago
  • Bloggy Come Lately
    BAD DOG – RAFIL KROLL-ZAIDI - Bad Dog by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi My rating: 4/5 cats WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT! this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll...
    2 years ago
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Popular Posts

  • Here's Every National Park Junior Ranger Badge You Can Earn By Mail (Updated August 2024)
    January 2025: A reader, Elena, made the coolest Excel spreadsheet for the Junior Ranger badges that can be earned by mail , and was kind eno...
  • Tutorial: Melted Crayon Canvas Art
    At any given moment, I have on the back burner easily two dozen projects that are kid-centric, just waiting for a willing kid or two to come...
  • Nightmare before Christmas before Labor Day
    My partner and the kiddos are off having lunch at China Buffet right now--it's a place into which I will not step, but I did ask them ...
  • Our DIY Aerial Silks Rig
    For playing such a large part in our daily lives, this DIY aerial silks rig of ours is something that I haven't really shared as such ye...
  • Upcycle Your Crayons!: How to Make New Crayons from Old Crayons
    When I was researching melted crayon tutorials for my last post on upcycling crayons , I realized, "Hey! Everybody else does it wrong!...
  • Cornstarch Glue, and Valentines, Too
    Have I spoken to you of my famous kid, spokeschild for the line of bulk cornstarch for sale at Kodo Kids ? I traded them usage of the photos...
  • How NOT to Make Melted Plastic Bead Ornaments (and also How to)
    We've got a medium-sized stash of random, mixed-up, unsorted beads, and one day I dream that we shall instead have a stash--of any size-...
  • Tie-Dyed Socks on our Feet
    Nobody, and I mean nobody, matches socks around here. A giant hamper of clean socks lives in the closet. When my partner and I need clean ...
  • DIY Cat Scratcher from Upcycled Corrugated Cardboard Boxes
    This tutorial was originally posted on Crafting a Green World . This upcycled cardboard cat scratcher is a great way to use up all your corr...
  • How We Earned the Girl Scout Cadette New Cuisines Badge
    I know I told you over and over that the Cadette Book Artist badge is my favorite, but y'all--that's before the kids wanted to earn...

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