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Felt Chocolate Bunnies
I didn’t end up making the felt eggs for my March felt food swap, but I did make chocolate bunnies! I made 8 total. Five were for my felt food swaps, 1 for Bennett’s Easter basket, and 2 extras. They … Continue reading
Regrowing Celery and Bok Choy
I while back I’d seen on Pinterest that you can regrow celery from the bottom of the stalk. I had some celery a couple of weeks ago to make sausage casserole, so I thought I’d try regrowing it. … Continue reading
Soft Rainbow Colors Book
I have another baby busy bag exchange this month. I didn’t want to do the same thing as last month, the crinkle squares. I wanted to make something I haven’t exchanged yet to add some variety. I’d been stumped about … Continue reading
More Sashiko Rabbits
Well, it took me well over a month to finish this sashiko panel, but it’s done! Lots of other things needed doing… other projects, school exams, and busy bags. :) This is a long term project anyway. So here are … Continue reading
Making Vanilla Extract
Today I went to the Olympia Food Co-op to pick up some Ecos laundry detergent and I remembered that I wanted to get some vanilla beans to make some extract. It’s a pretty simple process of letting split vanilla beans soak … Continue reading
Upcycled Fair Isle Easter Egg
I’m participating in a felt food swap this month. I thought I’d try making an Easter egg from a fair isle sweater to see what would happen and this is the result. I felted the wool sweater in the … Continue reading
Preschool Busy Bag
I realized that I forgot to post what I made for my Preschool Busy Bag group! Whoops! That’s what happens during finals week. My brain is full of Environmental Technology. Heh. I made small chalkboard mats… They have about a … Continue reading
Posted in Busy Bag, fabric, Stash busting
Tagged Activity, Busy Bag, fabric, preschool, sewing
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Crinkle Square Tutorial
Here’s my tutorial for how to make a crinkle square toy for a baby. You’ll need fabric, some kind of crinkly plastic, ribbon, and thread. I used fleece fabric, an up cycled cereal bag (food grade plastic), grosgrain ribbon, and … Continue reading
Busy Bag – Baby Crinkle Square
I’m involved in a Busy Bag exchange where each of the 6 mothers in the group makes 6 of something small to occupy our children. The idea is that you keep one and send out the other 5. The other … Continue reading
Getting Froggy
I made two frogs this week from Funky Friends Factory pattern. The first one was made of some super soft minty green cashmere sweater bits that I have left over from making some upcycled baby hats. I had to size the … Continue reading
Sew the Day 