Category: Sewing

Chipmunk Glove Puppet

Gloves (like socks), while born to be part of a pair, often end their days in lonely solitude, separated from their mates by the forces of the universe that conspire at every turn to pull them apart. Alone, they sadly serve little purpose (aside from the occasional show biz appearance for only the most sparkling among them), and are left to languish in the backs of a drawers and bottoms of closets — that is, if they’re not disposed of all together. Ah… but it’s a new day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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T-shirt Quilt

If you collect T-shirts like I do, then you’ll need to make room in your closet for more… What do you do with the old ones?? Turn them into a quilt, of course!

Here is the finished product... just waiting to be moved to my dorm bed :)

Supplies:

– 24 cotton t-shirts (this was for a 4 x 6 square quilt for a twin-size bed). You may want extras so that you can decide to leave some out at the end if they don’t fit your color scheme.

– fabric scraps galore (these should be strips of fabric, up to 14″ in length, in widths from 1-4″)

– large piece of fabric for backing (2 yards (72″) by 3 yards (108″) gave me enough extra to make a border for the front as well)

– rotary cutter, cutting mat, long plexi-glass ruler, and scissors

– sewing machine, pins, and thread

– iron and fusible interfacing

– heavy-weight batting

– 3 skeins of embroidery thread in a neutral tone and an embroidery needle

complete instructions here