Easy DIY Molded Candle Holder
Your next perfect candle holder is as easy as a store-bought mold and some plaster of Paris or cement!
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How to Sew a Bookshelf Quilt Block
These bookshelf quilt blocks are a LOT easier to sew than they look!
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How to Make Quilted Greeting Cards
These quilted greeting cards have a whopping two additional steps over my quilted postcards, so they’re still a terrifically quick and easy way to do some scrap-busting of your sewing stash. You should also already either have a mini quilt block in mind OR know how to do the quilt-as-you-go method–here are a ton of mini quilt blocks to pick from, and here’s how to quilt as you go!
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How to Make Quilted Postcards
Quilted postcards are a fun way to let someone know you’re thinking about them.
The scrap busting is a bonus!
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Tutorial: Quilt as You Go Scrappy Mini Quilt Blocks
These quilt as you go mini quilt blocks are a terrific way to use up fabric scraps, and the finished quilt blocks are endlessly useful in all sorts of ways. I like to use them to sew zippered pouches, stitched coasters, and quilted postcards, in particular, but I have my eye on a few more projects they’d look beautiful in.
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How To Sew a Mini Quilt Block Coaster
A mini quilt block coaster is a useful–and beautiful!–way to destash some of your prettiest quilting cottons.
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Sew a Mini Square in a Square Log Cabin Quilt Block
My log cabin quilt block obsession has grown both larger… and smaller!
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This is THE Strongest Way to Preserve a Puzzle
The best way to preserve a puzzle is not with regular Mod Podge. It’s not even the Mod Podge marketed just for preserving puzzles–you know, that Mod Podge that’s just the same as regular Mod Podge but more expensive? It’s not duct tape or sticker sheets or foam board across the back, and it’s not packing tape or glass across the front.
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Sew a Solar Eclipse Bunting from Stash Fabric
My first official decoration is this solar eclipse bunting sewn from upcycled blue jeans and stash fabric. Y’all know how much I love buntings, so this choice shouldn’t surprise you. And thanks to the easy templates I used and my sewing machine’s superpower that is the zigzag stitch, I was able to take this bunting from concept to completion in half an afternoon. Here’s how!
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Tutorial: Quilt As You Go Scrappy Bookmark
Use up your scraps while making this cute and useful quilt as you go scrappy bookmark!
Y’all know how much I love myself a DIY bookmark!
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Sewing Machine Repairs You Can Do Yourself: Replace the Needle Plate
Skip the spendy sewing machine repair shop and replace your needle plate yourself. It’s easier than it looks!
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This DIY Braiding Wheel Makes the Best Friendship Bracelets
I’ve heard this nifty little braiding tool called both a Kumihimo Disk and a Trollen Wheel, but I most often refer to it around the kids I work with as a Friendship Bracelet Maker.
That’s because whatever you call it, this braiding wheel makes the BEST friendship bracelets!
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Cinnamon Dough is THE Most Delightful Winter Craft
Cinnamon dough smells amazing. It’s as easy to make and use as play dough. It dries to near-permanence with just a couple of hours in the oven. It’s been my favorite winter activity to do with my kids ever since they were tiny, and now I’m sharing it with YOU!
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How to Make Dried Citrus Slices for Garlands and Ornaments
These dried citrus slices are easy to make during a cozy half-day at home, and easy to string to make ornaments, garlands, and other holiday decorations. Here’s how!
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DIY Embroidered Cardboard Ornaments
So whether you’re obsessed with soothing symmetry like me, or you like to make your stitching free-form or representative, you can stitch the design of your dreams onto these embroidered cardboard ornaments. Here’s how!
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Here’s the Best DIY Upcycled Cardboard Building Set
This upcycled cardboard building set is a terrific open-ended toy that won’t cost you a cent!
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DIY Corrugated Cardboard Tower of Hanoi
This Tower of Hanoi is NOT made from plastic! Instead, it’s made from that likely-looking piece of corrugated cardboard hanging out there in your recycling bin. Cut it up, add some decorations, and you’ll have yourself a brand-new version of a 140-year-old logic game.
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DIY Upcycled Cardboard Polyominoes
You don’t need another set of plastic game pieces kicking around your home, though. Instead, here’s how to make any set of polyominoes that you want from sturdy, upcycled, recyclable cardboard.
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Here’s How to Make an Easy Macrame Plant Hanger
This easy macrame plant hanger makes a comfy home for all your favorite plants!
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How to Make the Easiest Sewn Fabric Baskets
These fabric baskets are purposefully a bit on the droopy side, because I don’t like to sew with artificial materials like interfacing. A little interfacing or even cereal box cardboard would firm them up, though, if you prefer that look.
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Sew a Wildlife Rescue Pouch from Fleece Scraps
Wildlife rescues use fleece pouches to contain small and baby animals in a way that keeps them feeling safe and comfortable. It mimics the type of pouch that a marsupial animal will be familiar with, and recreates the feeling of a nest for other animals.
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DIY Cat Scratcher from Upcycled Cardboard Boxes
This upcycled cardboard cat scratcher is a great way to use up all your corrugated cardboard boxes. Cats love it, and it’s a useful donation to your local animal shelter.
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Easy Stashbusting Project: Stitched Scrap Fabric and Felt Memory Game
This is a great way to use up small scraps from your recent projects, and especially other projects that you’ve sewn for these same kids.
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The Easiest Way to Clean Wax out of a Jar Candle
My go-to process for cleaning wax out of jar candles used to be tedious and time-consuming. But now I’ve successfully used the Power of Science to come up with THE quickest and easiest go-to process.
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No-Sew Mini Felt Heart Bunting
This mini heart bunting is a low-key gift, since it’s nice and small. Big hearts are corny, but small hearts are cute!
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How to Clean and Refurbish Old Wooden Building Blocks
Here’s how to deep clean wooden building blocks and simple wooden toys, how to refurbish them, and even how to polish them up so they look beautiful and fancy and like the high-quality heirlooms that they are.
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Easy, Eco-Friendly Christmas Craft: Paper Chain Christmas Tree Garland
However, you can do a lot more with the classic paper chain, especially in terms of Christmas tree decor. Because wouldn’t you rather have an eco-friendly, customized garland that fits your specific vibe?
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How to Replace the Zipper in a Pair of Pants
Be warned: pants zippers are tedious and painstaking to replace. What they are not, however, is difficult. If you’ve sewn with zippers before, and you’re comfortable using a zipper foot, you can make this repair.
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Upcycled Hair Accessories: Stashbust a Scrunchie
Scrunchies are one of my favorite stashbuster projects. Like the other projects that I mentioned, scrunchies are very forgiving, so you can fudge fabric dimensions as needed to fit your scraps.
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Leaning into the Discomfort, Part One: How to Upcycle a 2-Liter Bottle into a Planter
Somehow, until I made the effort to really think about how I could reuse plastic 2-liter bottles, it never occurred to me that a plastic 2-liter bottle is a nearly perfect planter. It’s cheap. It’s sturdy. It’s light. It’s easy to modify to fit a variety of needs.
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This Mend Will Stay Mended! The Forever Fix to Thigh Rips in Your Jeans
Reinforcing that entire thigh area, both the rip and the surrounding real estate, with a denim patch, as well as quilting the snot out of that patch, stops the rip.
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Clothing Refashion: Another Way to DIY Bell Bottoms
This method results in a pair of bell bottoms that are wide and blousy and flowy. You couldn’t get away with wearing them in all circumstances, but they’re also super dramatic and super fun for every bell bottom-appropriate occasion.
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20 Summer Camp Crafts for a Kid-Friendly Summer
Take a few pages out of the camp counselor handbook and check out my list of my favorite summer camp-style crafts. They’re all highly kid-approved, and you can very likely source all the necessary supplies from around your house, yard, or recycling bin.
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Summer Camp Crafts: How to Make a Yarn Tassel
This DIY yarn tassel is the perfect outdoor craft when it’s beautiful outside, and also a pretty terrific indoor craft when outside sucks.
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How to Remake Ugly Switch Plates and Outlet Covers with Paper
A little Mod Podge, a little polyurethane sealant, and my old plastic light switch plate and outlet cover are good as new, with some antique wallpaper street cred, too!
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