Mothers Day Gift Guide

Mothers Day Gift Ideas

  50+  Beautiful, Easy-to-Make Mothers Day Gifts Pretty, personalized,  functional & stylish gifts for moms.  You have 2 weeks left to either make a gift yourself, or give your mom the project materials along with a free printed tutorial.   Ideas for Older Kids Who Can Make Mothers Day Gifts

Kids Bedding & Furniture: 5 Décor Ideas to Create a Travel-Themed Room

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Pulling a travel-themed room together requires more than a vintage map in a picture frame, a map-covered wall, or a cool globe to hide your travel savings. Here are 5 interior design tools to help you create that air travel or cruiser look.  Use rugs, pillows, storage and bedding with fun travel-themed detail to transform [...]

Owl Pillow Sewing Tutorial

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Learn how to make this adorable, cheery owl snuggle pillow. DAY 1 in OWL-WEEK: April 16-20. Am bombarded with owls everywhere. I resisted at first, but then their charm got to me… Cute owls. This entire week, I’ll feature a free owl tutorial, so that your life too can be completely filled with owls, everywhere. [...]

Bench Before / After

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BEFORE: A classic Saturday-morning-garage-curb-sale-find. None wants it. It’s dated, to bulky, and used up. AFTER: In the ‘after’ photo, you barely recognize the prior monster as is featured a beautiful, contemporary foyer bench that we all want to have.  All of a sudden you can recognize its key features of large storage and ample seating [...]

Howto: Bolster Pillow with Romantic Print

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Pin It This handmade romantic bolster pillow is so authentically French. It looks like the most sophisticated, delicate hand embroidery. Yet, Nan, from ‘You Could Make That’ showed us how to make this so-French pillow by simply printing the design onto fabric.   Easy-to-make accessory for a romantic bedroom!

Contemporary Hexagon Pillows :: Free Sewing Pattern

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: this hexagon designer pillow pattern reads like a nature mosaic. Something soulful about handmade pillows that have such attention to painstaking detail. It’s an exquisite sewing pattern and it’s free.   By centering 6 identical petals, the master seamstress team at Sew4Home has orchestrated yet another winning design.   They share the sewing tutorial [...]

Felt Ruffle Rosette Pillow Pattern

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Tired of snow, rain or otherwise gloomy winter weather? Cheer up. This happy orange pillow tutorial will bring you into a good mood again. Dazzling ruffles are fast to produce on this easy-as-pie pillow.       The tutorial ::   Felt Rosette Pillow Step-by-step Instructions 1. cut circles 2. fold them twice and secure [...]

Christmas Stocking as Holiday Pillow

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Just a quick tip to repurpose your excess Christmas stockings that you might have been gifted over the years as holiday pillows.  Aren’t they fun?      How to Make Your Own Christmas Stocking Pillow No sewing machine required, just fill them up, and close them with a few stitches (or if you’re really in [...]

Getting Kapok

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How Much Kapok Do You Need ? Depending on the exact measurements you’ll choose, for a zafu meditation pillow like this, you will need approximately 2.5 lbs. of kapok. Where to buy quality Kapok? At Carolina Morning. I’m excited to announce our new affiliation with Carolina Morning. The folks there just love their work, and [...]

Why Kapok in Zafu Meditation Pillows

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Pin It Last New Year, I posted a tutorial on how to make your own Zafu Meditation Pillow, as meditating is a wonderful New Year resolution.     To sit comfortably while you meditate you really must have a zafu. If you haven’t made one of these pillows yet, now is the perfect time to [...]

Sew a Wild Scrappy Pillow

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: a unique quilting pattern. Quilting may sound kind of tame, however, with Alisa Burke, quilting changes tack and sails the winds of adventure! Look what she did….     Step-by-step Fabric Painting, Sewing & Quilting Instructions   1. Hand stamp & hand print your  own fabric. That is: make your own stamps with foam [...]

Back-to-School College, Teenage & Kid Bedroom Decorating

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This article on ‘College, Teenage & Kid Bedroom Decorating Projects & Ideas’  finishes the ‘Back-to-school Ideas’- week, however, during September we’ll add a few more individual back-to-school ideas, as they pop up in our minds.   College Room, Teenage & Kid Bedroom Ideas Child Bedroom Furniture Stencil Plan This article contains free templates and a [...]

How to Make a Parasol Bird Pillow

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Today we’re starting something new: FEATURED GUEST BLOGGER CRAFT TUTORIALS. What I mean is that I’m inviting lovely and really talented craft bloggers to guest post tutorials for their wonderful unique crafts on FineCraftGuild. Our first guest blogger is the creative Beverly from Flamingo Toes, based in California. Ahhh. Look at the sewing project she’s [...]