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Imagine Fabric Blog: How To Make a FABRIC BOWL Imagine Fabric. Making a Fabric Bowl is as easy as ABC and it is a lot of fun.

Imagine Fabric Blog: How To Make a FABRIC BOWL Imagine Fabric

Just follow our step-by-step instructions and within an hour, you will be awarded with your very own Fabric Bowl. Let's get started. Select your fabric of choice - I picked some beautiful Joel Dewberry Fabric for my Fabric Bowl project. Used the size of your favorite bowl. Measure the bowl from side to side going underneath the bowl. Mail organizer tutorial. To kick off Spice up your Kitchen, I figured I should start things off with a tutorial to help you get organized.

mail organizer tutorial

You know all that mail that piles up on your kitchen counters? Come on, fess up. Well mine was finally driving me crazy enough to do something about it. Tutorial for Fabric Mail Sorter. 1 yard fabric for the body and outside of the pockets – can be cotton, linen, or even canvas would be ok ½ yard fabric for the pocket lining and binding – should be quilting cotton or similar weight ½ yard Pellon 70 or other ultra heavy weight interfacing ½ yard Pellon 987F or other lightweight fusible fleece or fusible interfacing 1/3 yard Pellon 40, 50, or other lightweight interfacing 65 inches of bias binding, if not making your own Extra-large grommet and setting tools Thread to match backing fabric 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Tutorial for Fabric Mail Sorter

Serger Instructions: Fold the lining over the top so that wrong sides are together and match the raw edges on the bottom. Non-Serger: With right sides together, match raw edges at the bottom and press from the bottom up so that you get a lining band at the top. Repeat for rest of pockets. 6. Mail sorter: a tutorial « bright and blithe. I always feel better greeting the new year with a clean house. At least, as clean as our house gets. It seems I’m in a losing battle with our mail. It ends up heaped in the office where things are buried, lost, and forgotten. Urban Nest » Blog Archive » Cereal Box Storage Bins. No-interfacing Storage Basket Tutorial. As promised, a recipe for making washable stand-up storage baskets: You'll need to cut 2 of each of these pieces (click on the pic to enlarge it to a readable size).

No-interfacing Storage Basket Tutorial

The measurements are in centimetres because that's the way I was brought up (sorry). A seam allowance of 1cm is included in these measurements. This basket's base is 15cm wide, but you could make any size using this slightly haphazard formula, where x is the width of the base and y is the height of the basket. And 2 is cm and seam allowance. Pieces cut, sew right sides together along these seams: Sew the boxed corners of the linings by folding the pieces open, matching the side seams with the bottom seams, and stitching across: Zig-zag the top edge of the smaller lining piece.

Hem the bottom edge of the outer sleeve piece, turning up 1cm all round and stitching it down. Turn the lining pieces so that their right side faces out, and slide the outer sleeve over. Almost done, except for the fiddly part! Back with buckets ! Hiya, Here is my very belated bucket tutorial.

Back with buckets !

I was hoping to do this for Whiplash but never mind. I fluffed the first lot of photos but had to use one of them here as I missed a step - just ignore the fact that the fabrics change won't you? There are probably a gazillion versions of these floating around in the craft cyberspace, so these are the way I make mine. They are super useful for little things in the sewing room or for hair ties and stuff ! For each bucket you will need:· 5 ½ x 18 ½ inch strips of outer fabric, light wadding and iron–on interfacing.· 6 x 18 ½ inch strip of lining fabric (note it is a bit bigger so you get the nice trim at the top.· Circles measuring 6 inches across in outer, wadding, interfacing and lining for the base.

Step 1. With outer fabric and lining right sides together (and the wadding interfaced piece under the outer fabric) sew along the long (18 1/2 inch) edge that will be the top of the bucket. You can see the layers here. Open up and press the seam. Fabric Scrap Basket. Tutorial: Fabric Basket. Thanks for those of you who asked for a tutorial on the fabric basket project I updated yesterday!

Tutorial: Fabric Basket

This is gonna be my second tutorial on my this blog. If anything isn't clear, feel free to leave me a comment and ask me for help. Remember that all seam allowances are 1/4" throughout the process, and seam allowances are included in all the fabric pieces used in this tutorial. ::Materials needed::Fabric: Natural Linen: 1/4 yard for Basket Exterior and Handles Pink Polka Dots Print: 1/8 yard for Basket Exterior Pink Geometric Print: 1/8 yard for Basket Exterior Flower Print: 1/8 yard for Basket Exterior Green Rabbit Print: 1/2 yard for LiningOther Materials: Fleece Batting: 1/2 yard First of all, cut out 2" squares from 3 different kinds of fabrics: 8 squares from each. (1/4" seam allowance is included, so your finished square will be a 1 1/2" square) Sew together two squares, making sure those two are different fabrics. Now Sew together pieces to create 2 6x2 patchwork layer.

Trim excess. Nature Brights Kitchen: Plastic Bag Keeper/Dispenser. For years, I simply stuffed my recycled plastic bags in an old, cracked plastic bucket under my sink.

Nature Brights Kitchen: Plastic Bag Keeper/Dispenser

Very stylish! It was a mess, and nearly always overflowing. This clever plastic bag keeper/dispenser tidied things up perfectly. I put mine on the pantry door, but it would also work great over a doorknob, inside a cupboard or just hanging from a hook on the wall. Easy to store; easy to retrieve. Our original sample was done in Patty Young's Flora & Fauna collection for Michael Miller Fabrics. Optional: Finish the raw edges of each fabric piece by stitching around all sides with a simple zig zag.

Hanging strap Lay the 2" x 11" Color A strip right side down on your ironing board. Top section Center interfacing piece on the wrong side of one of the 5" x 20" Color A pieces. Set finished top section aside. Bag body Working from the bottom up, you are going to piece strips together to make your bag body. Denim Do-it-All Bins. By Betz White Repurposing with denim is a natural.

Denim Do-it-All Bins

Who doesn’t have an extra pair of jeans lying around that are outgrown, out of fashion or worn out in some way? Put that denim to good use by making up a few Denim Do-it-All Bins. They’re great for organizing your yarn stash, magazines, or craft supplies. Materials. Spring Clean & Tidy Week: Sofa Caddy - Sew4Home. Spring Clean & Tidy Week: Nursery Storage Baskets - Sew4Home. You Asked 4 It: Structured Fabric Baskets - Sew4Home. Another You Asked 4 It survey request crossed off the list. Several people asked about structured fabric baskets. We're guessing there must be a lot of Sew4Home fans out there with a lot of stuff they need to organize in some terrific totes. We've come through with not just one but a pretty pair: a large basket measuring 10" wide x 8" tall x 6" deep and a small companion at 8" wide x 7" tall x 5" deep.

The two nest perfectly together. Wouldn't these make an awesome wedding shower gift filled with kitchen or bath goodies?! We dove into our stash for this project and came us with four beautiful Michael Miller Fabric prints that are still available through numerous outlets. We found Divine Damask in Black at Fabric.com , Hawthorne Threads and Emerald City Fabrics . Our You Asked 4 It survey article is still live on the site and we still check for new comments.