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Want to make: hanging book display

This will probably not be something I do anytime soon, since there is a small investment in supplies and it requires the cooperation of my husband to get hung But it is an absolutely lovely idea. Click on the far right thumbnail to see the finished product - the main photo on this page actually just shows a kid in front of a regular bookshelf - which is what you are making an alternative for! Here is the link.

framed botanical pillow

I’ve yet to make any pillows. Would be nice, though! Here is a really pretty design, with instructions, that I saw at the purlbee.

tutorial link: baby kimono top

By now I have 2 different books with a pattern for this exact kind of top. But maybe you don’t! So here is a link I found for a free pattern. It is very pretty! Click here to visit the site.

more tutorials than you can shake a stick at

I meant to do better at keeping up my project notes. I have several drafts regarding my most recent projects, but I’m just not finishing them. In the meantime, I’ve run into a number of fantastic tutorials and I must link to them so I can always find them! Some of these I want to have, some of these will just be awesome gifts, and some, like the dollhouse, I may never make but it is so amazing I need to bookmark it.

A few of them came from this year’s sewmamasew Handmade Holidays. They also held a tutorial contest for contributions to this year’s affair, and I dug through the contenders to find some that I liked which didn’t make it.

• napkin set with linen case
• tea wallet, what a cool idea!
• combo reading glasses holder/bookmark
• dollhouse!
• make toddler pants out of a t shirt (in this boys’ clothes roundup from sewmamasew)
• awesome toddler dress out of button down dress shirt
• fabric bead necklace
• charging basket
• notebook and pencil holder
• brooch keeper
• best bib
• classic tote
• fabric postcard
• patchwork kitchen mat
• passport sleeve tutorial
• bamboo handle bag
• hanging bed organizer
• patchwork kitchen towels
• quilted patchwork hot pads

tutorial for wrap pants

These are way cool! Tute here.

tutorial for Reversible Shoulder Bag

Yet another bag tutorial. This one has a separate piece sewn on for the bottom, which is something I have not yet done. Otherwise resembles the tiny happy bag.

zipper top bag tute

I went looking and found this promising tutorial for a zipper top closure for a bag on craftster. Can’t wait to try it out!

lovely bag tute - “everything” bag

I’m finding free bag tutorials left and right. I love the format of this one, lovely photography. Although it’s not as handy of you like to print it out. Has a loop and button closure.

another tute found: Japanese knot bag

I don’t know if I would ever use one, but it is pretty and would probably make a lovely gift. Link here.

Want to make: totebag

Found another tute, and I love the design of this totebag. I’m actually very behind, however, on just adding my project notes for the last couple things I’ve finished. Argh.

By the way, I found it by following a link from this blog, a sort of sewalong group that appears to be aimed at newbies? looks like a great place to hang out!