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10 tips to sew your t-shirt quilt

Ever since I met him, my hubby has had a close relationship with geeky t-shirts. He has so many of them, that over the years I’ve been able to make some of them – those that were starting to wear out – disappear into my fabric stash without him noticing. Because one day, I would use them all to sew...

Pouf! How to upcycle jeans

Ripped jeans may be all the rage at the moment, but the ones we had here at home were torn in places of which I preferred people didn’t see them. Then again, I couldn’t just throw them out either. But I did have all the ingredients needed for an upcycle project. A pouf! From jeans! With pockets and everything! Inspiration...

Double oven mitt – Free downloadable pattern

My step mom, she knows how to bake. And she does it a lot (and when I say a lot, I mean a lot). All that baking had worn down her oven mitts, and the need for new ones got bigger every week. I started my search for fabric, and landed on an old skirt of mine. One I had...

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...

Johnny the hobby horse

We had a stick lying around the house. A nice and thick one. One that was asking to be turned into a hobby horse. Not just for the stick, but also for Ronny, our first horse. It was getting a bit lonely. Hobby horse number 2, Johnny, was born out of a torn sock. One with a big-toe hole. So...

Hobby horse from a lonely sock

Our little guy is an outsider. Literally. The more he can be outside, the better. Staying inside drives him crazy. Running outside, that what he wants to do. Most of the time just that little bit faster than his little legs can cary him. Favourite place to run: the woods. For some kind of reason that my mummy mind doesn’t...

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