Abfabulies

Upcycling towels – Here’s how you do that

Towels live forever, in this household. Well, almost forever, that is. The old towels that I took with me from home when I went to live on my own moved along with me through each stage in my life. Now and then, one doesn’t make it. Depending on how it ends of this one, it sometimes gets upcycled. That’s what...

Spiderman glittens

The dragon era at the Abfabulies house has passed. I no longer have a full-time knight in the house, he started working part-time. And the time that was freed up, is now filled with Spiderman. I honestly don’t know where this new love comes from. Here at home, we’ve never watched Spiderman. Still, our little boy does know him. And...

New cover for our cargo bike seat – With free pattern

When our little boy was born, we bought a cargo bike, for all kinds of practical reasons. Our bikes were the fastest means to get to and fro, and with that cargo bike, we could add baby seat and all. At that time, I still had a company car, but sometimes weeks went by that I didn’t use it. One...

Dinosaur pen case

Drawing is a passtime that’s very much liked in this house. With pencils, crayons and felt tip pens. Felt tip pens of which you can wash out the ink, just to be on the safe side. Before, all these utensils were kept together in a plastic bag. There was definitely some room for improvement. With the backpack theme still in...

Book binding for lazy housewives – The washi tape method

In my previous post I already mentioned Kathleen’s blog calender, which you can find on her blog Verbeelding. Apart from that, Kathleen also shared a very handy  sewing planner. I’m starting to consider Kathleen as my personal organiser 🙂 To keep all those sewing plans nicely together, I wanted to make a booklet, as I’ve already done before. But since I’m pretty inpatient and...

Dragon cowl

You can’t have dragon paws, without a matching scarf, right? I chose to make a cowl. To make it extra warm, I used double-knitting. Green on the outside, orange on the inside. In theory, it’s reversible, but in practice, the dragon spikes – exactly the same as for the glittens – make that impossible. Because a cowl is knit in...

Tutorial – How to make a reversible cloud pillow

Since I had a whole collection of raindrop pillows that I made for my guest post over at fortunecookiez.be, I couldn’t but sew a cloud pillow as well. A reversible one for that. Angry on one side, happy and sunny on the other side. Do you want to make your own? You can find the free pattern below. What do...

Raindrops keep falling on my head – Free pattern for a raindrop pillow

What do you need? Something round to use as a template to draw the basic circle of your pattern. Think pots and pans, your coffee mug (if you want a small raindrop), your earmuffs, whatever you have lying around. Or you can act like a real professional and use a drafting compass A ruler, paper, pencil and scotch tape Some...

Tablet Cover with magnetic strip and camera hole – tutorial

I already put some clothes on the e-readers in this house, but the tablet we got as a gift when we subscribed to our newspaper has been lying around very naked. Time for action. New cover, again based on the pattern by Eva Maria, but with a magnetic strip and a camera hole. What do you need? A piece of fabric...

E-reader cover

For my birthday, I got an e-reader from my hubby. So I added to my sewing list: Make an e-reader cover. But that list is pretty long. And I hadn’t gotten round to it yet. In the meantime, I used the little insulation thingy it came in. I thought that would be enough for now. It wasn’t. A couple of...