Threading Your Way ~ Features

This week's features - (all have been Pinned)...

A very clever way to design a quilt, added to the Quilting & Patchwork link party. All you need is the initial quilt block...

How to Use PhotoScape to Test a Quilt Block Design by Joy, from Joy's Jots, Shots & Whatnots...  this week's featured blog. Joy, look out for your blog button in my sidebar. Joy is an experienced seamstress. She regularly shares sewing tutorials covering everything from making doll clothes to quilts. Her Tech How To posts are also very popular and well received.

How to Easily Mend Stretched Ribbing on Clothing

I have to admit, I'm not overly keen on clothing alterations or mending a worn garment. To prolong the life of a garment, however, I'll overcome my lack of enthusiasm. Today's sewing involved one such task - fixing the stretched ribbing on the sleeves of a favourite cardigan. As far as mending goes, the fix was relatively easy.

30 Sewing Projects to Use Up All Those Little Scraps of Fabric

If you're anything like me, you'll have a healthy stash of little pieces of fabric. Mine is growing at an alarming rate, as I find it hard to throw away even the smallest of scraps. Today I'm sharing 30 projects from the ongoing sewing link parties here at Threading My Way. All can be sewn with small, left over pieces of fabric or with tiny scraps pieced together.

Fabric Bookmark with Stitched Flower ~ Tutorial

A fabric bookmark is a quick and easy sewing project - so much better than bending over pages to mark your place. Today's tutorial will show you how to make a fabric bookmark with frayed ends and a machine stitched flower.

Threading Your Way ~ Features

This week's features - (all have been Pinned)...

A striking bag, added to the Purses, Clutches & Pouches link party. Awesome combination of fabrics...

Open Wide! Zipper Bag by Daryl, from Patchouli Moon Studio...  this week's featured blog. Daryl, look out for your blog button in my sidebar. Daryl has an eye for colours and fabric co-ordination. Over at Patchouli Moon Studio, you will find a wide range of projects. I especially like her fabric rope bowls and her detailed quilting projects. Check out her vase of flowers quilt.

Additions to the Stash

It's less than a month since I showed you the last fabric I acquired and today I'm showing you even more fabric that has entered my house in the last two days.

Keeping Track of Needles in Sewing Machine

A very quick post today to show you how I keep track of the size and type of needle that is currently in my sewing machine.

Impersonation on Twitter

I'm not a big fan of Twitter, so I don't use it as often as some other forms of social media. You can imagine my surprise when I found there was two of me on there. Well, not two of me, but two Threading My Way accounts on Twitter. Someone had impersonated me!!!

Cushion Covers with Hidden Zipper

Last Christmas I made my daughter two cushions. Eight months later I've finally sewn another two and she has a complete set.