Next Project- Acacia Floor Cushion!



 

Happy Friday- I hope everyone has their sewing projects lined up for the weekend! Here's another to add to you list: the Pieced Floor Cushion Cover by blogger Amanda Hall (check out her blog at http://thecraftjunky.blogspot.com/). This pillow using Tula Pink's Acacia will give any room some extra spunk!

Click HERE for the instructions!

To continue the National Sewing Month Celebration, a new free project!

I hope everyone has been celebrating National Sewing Month accordingly and started on some great new sewing projects!  We want to continue inspiring you to rev up your machine and make some fun and easy projects using beautiful FreeSpirit fabrics!  This tutorial is the second of four in our National Sewing Month feature.  Thanks Jacey Lucas for this great project.  Visit her blog at http://jaceycraft.blogspot.com.

 

This is a simple sewing project, and the resulting café curtain will add color and fun to any room! The finished curtain in this tutorial is 42” L x 15” W and uses Erin McMorris' awesome collection Astrid. Click the picture below to get started!

National Sewing Month!

September is here and that means National Sewing Month! We’ll be celebrating all month long with some fun posts and fabric. We asked a few bloggers to help inspire you with easy-to-make projects in beautiful FreeSpirit fabrics. Each week during the month of September we will bring you a tutorial for a fun project from a different blogger. And at the end of the month, we’ll be giving away fabric. You won’t want to miss any of it!

Today, we kick things off with the perfect quilting accessory made from FreeSpirit Florence by Denyse Schmidt. The Mat Carrier by Melissa Peda fits an 18” square cutting mat with a pocket on the back for patterns, snips, threads, etc. The pattern uses an 18” finished quilt block for the front panel, although you can easily substitute a simple square in your favorite print. Click on the photo above for the PDF of this handy carrier.

The pictured project features a modified quilt block from Denyse Schmidt’s Between The Lines quilt pattern. The block is used with permission by Denyse Schmidt and is not part of the pattern which is available now at dsquilts.com and at local quilt shops.

We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate sewing. If you have a favorite sewing memory, please share it with us. We’d love to hear who first taught you to sew!