Crafts By Materials

Did you know that March is National Craft Month? Let’s celebrate by getting extra crafty for the rest of the month. Come and join us in creating the adorable Happy …

I thought I was going to stop making Valentine’s projects for this year as it is just a few days away, but when I saw Martha Stewart’s Felt Fortune Cookies …

A great addition to any Halloween-themed office or study. Easy-to-follow instructions for making a Halloween mummy holder complete with a pesky spider. Remember the yarn wrapped recycle pencil holder I …

Want to frighten off your trick-or-treating guests? Hang these DIY ghost lights onto some bare tree branches in the dark during Halloween to scare them and have fun 🙂 I …

It’s that time of the year again, and the weather is starting to cool down, making indoor activities more appealing. How about making an adorable pumpkin basket with a sewing …

Can’t believe that I sewed this Butterfly Sleeve Blouse in less than 2 hours? from paper sketching to the finished blouse. It looks challenging but the truth is it is …

If you have an old sweater that you are no longer wearing, let’s repurpose it! Let’s learn how to sew your old sweater into a kid’s rompers. I sewed another …

This is the 4th shorts I sewed for my kids and it will be the last one until I sew this boy shorts pattern again from my old blouse. Though …

I am so addicted to sewing shorts for my kids with the fabrics I recycled from my old cotton shirts. This time, instead of sewing out of the same pattern …

Are you looking for short pants or shorts sewing patterns? Get the free sewing pattern for kid shorts (with pockets) for children aged three to twelve. Learn how to sew …

I need to make some quick fabric covered buttons to embellish my recycle bag, and I am thinking of placing a mini ric-rac on it. Thank goodness, the button maker …

Tired of normal square or rectangle pillow in your house? Why not spruce up your home decor with this safety sign triangle pillow? I got a triangle pillow form/pillow insert from …

It seems like just yesterday that I sewed the chenille bib for the babies. Now, the bib can no longer comfortably fit onto the necks of the growing-up toddlers. They need a …

I was up late in my sewing room working on some adorable garden bug applique patterns and designing a few cute onesies for my 7-month-old godson. I wanted to make …

Basket weaving hasn’t been so easy with this method: weave around a cardboard frame. Originally, I saw this easy basket-weaving method in a Japanese craft magazine; I searched around for …

We often talk about upcycling trash and garbage, but one thing we all have in abundance that gets thrown out or donated is old fabric in the form of clothing, …

So, you have seen the denim vest and the denim skirt refashioned from an outgrown denim dress in my recent 2 tutorials. Today, the third tutorial in the series is …

Discover how to make a Ruffles Flower Corsage HeadBand. This Ruffles Flower can be removed from the headband and worn as a brooch on its own. It is May, the …

This is the last tutorial on how to fully recycle an outgrown denim dress into a 4-piece outfit: make a denim rosette brooch out of a sleeve and its hem. …

This is the denim skirt I refashioned from an outgrown denim dress I mentioned in the earlier post. This is the second part of the refashioning project after I made …