It's a tissue case! Sew Funky has a great tutorial: http://www.sew-funky.com/2009/05/01/tutorial-tissue-case/!
Please post your pictures if you decide to make one, make two or make more!
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Tissue Case
Hello everybody! Here's a quick sewing project that's so easy! Its quick and does not use much fabric, scraps, in fact! Think I will be making one for each of my girlfriends!
It's a tissue case! Sew Funky has a great tutorial: http://www.sew-funky.com/2009/05/01/tutorial-tissue-case/!
It's a tissue case! Sew Funky has a great tutorial: http://www.sew-funky.com/2009/05/01/tutorial-tissue-case/!
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Christmas Spider Legend
How many of you have heard of the Christmas Spider Legend? Well, if you haven't here it goes:
THE CHRISTMAS SPIDER LEGEND
A long, long time ago, a gentle mother was busily cleaning the house for the most wonderful day of the year ... Christmas Day. Not a speck of dust was left anywhere. Even the little spiders had been banished from their cozy corner high up on the ceiling. To avoid the housewife's busy cleaning, they finally fled to the farthest corner of the forgotten attic.
Finally, it was Christmas Eve. The tree was decorated and the children delighted. But the poor spiders were frantic, for they could not see the tree, nor be present for the magic of the season. The oldest and wisest spider suggested that perhaps they could wait until everyone had gone to bed and then sneak through the crack in the door to see the wonders of the tree. The little spiders silently and carefully came down out of their attic corner and across the floor to wait in the crack on the threshold.
Pretty soon all was quiet, so the spiders quickly crept into the room. The tree towered so high that they couldn't see the ornaments on top. In fact, the little spiders' eyes were so small that they could only see one ornament at a time. They all scurried up the trunk, out along each branch, filled with a happy wonder at the glittering beauty. The spiders loved the Christmas tree. All night long, they danced in the branches, and every place they went left a trail of dusty, gray web. When at last they had inspected every bit of the Christmas tree, it was shrouded in the dusty gray of spider webs.
Santa smiled as he thought of the happy spiders seeing the tree and how much they liked it, but he also thought of how sad the little mother would be over the dusty tree. He reached out his hand -- and just then the sun came through the window and touched the tree. All the webs started to sparkle and shine turning into shimmering, sparkling silver and gold. The tree glistened in greater beauty than ever before!
According to legend, ever since this happened, people have hung tinsel on their Christmas trees. It has been a custom to include a spider among the decorations on the tree..
A long, long time ago, a gentle mother was busily cleaning the house for the most wonderful day of the year ... Christmas Day. Not a speck of dust was left anywhere. Even the little spiders had been banished from their cozy corner high up on the ceiling. To avoid the housewife's busy cleaning, they finally fled to the farthest corner of the forgotten attic.
Finally, it was Christmas Eve. The tree was decorated and the children delighted. But the poor spiders were frantic, for they could not see the tree, nor be present for the magic of the season. The oldest and wisest spider suggested that perhaps they could wait until everyone had gone to bed and then sneak through the crack in the door to see the wonders of the tree. The little spiders silently and carefully came down out of their attic corner and across the floor to wait in the crack on the threshold.
Pretty soon all was quiet, so the spiders quickly crept into the room. The tree towered so high that they couldn't see the ornaments on top. In fact, the little spiders' eyes were so small that they could only see one ornament at a time. They all scurried up the trunk, out along each branch, filled with a happy wonder at the glittering beauty. The spiders loved the Christmas tree. All night long, they danced in the branches, and every place they went left a trail of dusty, gray web. When at last they had inspected every bit of the Christmas tree, it was shrouded in the dusty gray of spider webs.
Santa smiled as he thought of the happy spiders seeing the tree and how much they liked it, but he also thought of how sad the little mother would be over the dusty tree. He reached out his hand -- and just then the sun came through the window and touched the tree. All the webs started to sparkle and shine turning into shimmering, sparkling silver and gold. The tree glistened in greater beauty than ever before!
According to legend, ever since this happened, people have hung tinsel on their Christmas trees. It has been a custom to include a spider among the decorations on the tree..
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Heart and Hand
I've been getting my sewing on and with the holidays approaching, eek, it's time to push that pedal to the metal! It will be here before you know it.
Here's a really cute gift you can give your sewing friends! A needle keeper! I used Darlene Zimmerman Fabric (Robert Kaufman), for the log cabin quilt pattern heart, except for the center fabric. I used red felt! The rest of the hand should be made from heavier fabric.
Here's a really cute gift you can give your sewing friends! A needle keeper! I used Darlene Zimmerman Fabric (Robert Kaufman), for the log cabin quilt pattern heart, except for the center fabric. I used red felt! The rest of the hand should be made from heavier fabric.
The pattern is from the book, Folk Hearts by Pieceful Heart Designs! The design is Heart and Hand Needlekeeper
Happy sewing!
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