Quick and easy use for your sewing machine: If you still iron a few of your shirts and blouses, and are constantly working with the front facings to keep them pressed, why not just sew the facings in place? Even if you don't iron your shirts and blouses, some of them have facings that wrinkle and keep creasing in the dryer.
For the last several years, I have been sewing the facings down to keep from having to iron them. Pin the facing to the front and press. Sew down the front on each side to keep the facing in place.
Do this the next time you have the sewing machine out to work on a crafts project or new quilting adventure. You will be glad you did.
Linda
cajunC
Monday, September 7, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Needlework Crafts: Recycle with Quick Sewing Projects
Once you learn to sew, it seems that the crafts possibilities are endless. Many sewing projects become essential to keeping up a household. That includes alterations, particularly to children's clothing, and mending anything from socks to curtains.
Another great use for the sewing machine is in recycling. If you have towels that are frayed along the edges and no longer look good, they are ideal for recycling or as they say, repurposing. Each worn towel can make several washcloths, and at the price of washcloths, this is worth the effort. You can find make washcloths from old towels by using a purchased washcloth for a sample size. Cut the washcloths from the part of the towel that is not badly worn.
As a fun crafts project, you may want to make something from vintage pillowcases. You can make doll clothes, a purse, or a blouse embellishment with a little imagination. You can also think up your own ideas, like an apron for the holidays. The embroidery work is already done on the pillow cases, so you have a head start!
Make it fun and productive, too!
Linda
cajunC
Another great use for the sewing machine is in recycling. If you have towels that are frayed along the edges and no longer look good, they are ideal for recycling or as they say, repurposing. Each worn towel can make several washcloths, and at the price of washcloths, this is worth the effort. You can find make washcloths from old towels by using a purchased washcloth for a sample size. Cut the washcloths from the part of the towel that is not badly worn.
As a fun crafts project, you may want to make something from vintage pillowcases. You can make doll clothes, a purse, or a blouse embellishment with a little imagination. You can also think up your own ideas, like an apron for the holidays. The embroidery work is already done on the pillow cases, so you have a head start!
Make it fun and productive, too!
Linda
cajunC
Friday, November 14, 2008
CHRISTMAS is the best CRAFTS Time of the Year
We sell crafts books and love needlework and woodworking crafts as well as art and fabric arts like quilting. Crochet and knitting books, learn how with patterns for macrame, quilting, thread crochet, sewing, cross-stitch and embroidery as well as tatting and other crafts books are available for sale in our ioffer store. We have been selling sewing patterns and crafts books for four years and have about 4000 items listed at any time, with more available before Christmas.
We love Christmas, and specialize in Christmas crafts with over 2000 available at the present time. You can find our Christmas Crafts here.
All of our sewing patterns are UNCUT and UNUSED, with many vintage patterns available. We have over 2000 sewing patterns available, and these are specialty and crafts patterns, vintage and collectible designer patterns and patterns you can cut and use for sewing for your home or clothing. We do not carry current patterns in our selection of Butterick, Simplicity, McCalls, or any of the easily available companies, but have older patterns and have Burda, Advance, New Look, Style, Stretch and Sew, Vogue and many private companies like Green Peppers and patterns made in Texas.
It's time to do your Christmas crafts, make your outfits for parties, or just have fun looking at the old styles. Come visit our iOffer Store where you can BUY IT NOW and PAY WITH PERSONAL CHECK or GoogleCheckout. All our items are in stock and ready to ship. You can find out a little more about us by checking out our website. We've been buying and selling on the internet for ten years and have a reputation for fast delivery and superior products.
Linda
cajunC
We love Christmas, and specialize in Christmas crafts with over 2000 available at the present time. You can find our Christmas Crafts here.
All of our sewing patterns are UNCUT and UNUSED, with many vintage patterns available. We have over 2000 sewing patterns available, and these are specialty and crafts patterns, vintage and collectible designer patterns and patterns you can cut and use for sewing for your home or clothing. We do not carry current patterns in our selection of Butterick, Simplicity, McCalls, or any of the easily available companies, but have older patterns and have Burda, Advance, New Look, Style, Stretch and Sew, Vogue and many private companies like Green Peppers and patterns made in Texas.
It's time to do your Christmas crafts, make your outfits for parties, or just have fun looking at the old styles. Come visit our iOffer Store where you can BUY IT NOW and PAY WITH PERSONAL CHECK or GoogleCheckout. All our items are in stock and ready to ship. You can find out a little more about us by checking out our website. We've been buying and selling on the internet for ten years and have a reputation for fast delivery and superior products.
Linda
cajunC
Sunday, June 1, 2008
WHO makes RED CLAY pottery?
RED CLAY potters are often studio pottery, but FRANKOMA is the most famous red clay pottery. Probably more than 50% of the red clay pottery found in America today is from FRANKOMA, an Oklahoma pottery started by John Frank. Early FRANKOMA is NOT red clay, but was made of Ada Clay from Ada, OK. In the mid-Fifties, Sapulpa clay was used, and it was a red clay. Some of the more recent Frankoma is even more red than the Sapulpa clay color. Most of the Frankoma red clay pieces are marked, BUT NOT ALL. You can find a treasure if you know what you are looking at, and red clay is a start.
HARRIS STRONG used red clay for many of his beautiful tiles, and early PETERS AND REED pottery was RED CLAY. Grueby pottery is red clay, too, but we do not often see a piece of Grueby.
Much of the RED CLAY production pottery comes from CANADA today, and it is BLUE MOUNTAIN POTTERY, known for a drip glaze in green and black. They made beautiful animal figurines in different sizes, many with drip glazes.
There are so many pieces of pottery available that are not easily identified, and maybe YOU have one. I will be available to look at some of these if you contact me, and hopefully I can identify it or tell you where to look for the identification.
Happy hunting American pottery!
HARRIS STRONG used red clay for many of his beautiful tiles, and early PETERS AND REED pottery was RED CLAY. Grueby pottery is red clay, too, but we do not often see a piece of Grueby.
Much of the RED CLAY production pottery comes from CANADA today, and it is BLUE MOUNTAIN POTTERY, known for a drip glaze in green and black. They made beautiful animal figurines in different sizes, many with drip glazes.
There are so many pieces of pottery available that are not easily identified, and maybe YOU have one. I will be available to look at some of these if you contact me, and hopefully I can identify it or tell you where to look for the identification.
Happy hunting American pottery!
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