And depending on your specific decorating vibe, you can use your Halloween quilt all year--I certainly do!| Crafting a Green World
Let's say you need a pillowcase. You need it to be organic, because a loved one is going to be mushing her face into it for eight hours every night. You need it to be soft, because you want your loved one to be comfy so that she gets that whole eight hours. Oh, and you need it to be awesome, because your loved one is pretty stinkin' awesome.| Crafting a Green World
At least for decorative pillows! If you're sewing a pillow for a bed, do yourself a favor and check out the "magic" pillowcase tutorial.| Crafting a Green World
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Yes, you can 100% make sea glass in a rock tumbler.| Crafting a Green World
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There are so many cute ways to personalize handmade gifts, and so many cute personalized gifts to make!| Crafting a Green World
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My daughter wanted to figure out how to make matching skirts for her and a friend. With just two yards of fabric, you can do this, too!| Crafting a Green World
Not too long ago, I showed you a quick and dirty way to take in a too big tank top, but that's not the only way you can use your sewing skills to alter thrifted treasures! Here's how you can shorten a pair of thrifted pants in just a few simple steps.| Crafting a Green World
Why, yes, this IS an oddly specific tutorial that I’m writing here.| Crafting a Green World
Because it's so versatile and can take on so many looks, a log cabin quilt block is a great choice for a ton of fun projects.| Crafting a Green World
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Prepping and sewing these puff quilt pieces is a LOT of work, but when you finish, you're a third of the way to a finished quilt!| Crafting a Green World
Puff quilts are very on-trend right now, and I know this because my very on-trend teenager asked me for one.| Crafting a Green World
Yeah, I know board games are cheap--and even cheaper if you thrift them!--but sometimes it's fun just to make something by hand. And that's not even| Crafting a Green World
These wood burned building blocks are super special to us.| Crafting a Green World
I particularly love the open-ended playability of path tile games. I love that depending on the design, the path you follow could be a highway or a| Crafting a Green World
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I hate every hemline on every pair of shorts ever sold in stores. I feel like this is a universal experience that unites us all, yes? Why is the hemline on| Crafting a Green World
From the decorations to the party activities to the food to the favors, you can DIY pretty much any party theme. Take, for example, the Coraline party that I| Crafting a Green World
No matter where your keys came from, you can make them spooky enough for a Coraline party!| Crafting a Green World
I am short, so I always have to hem any pants I buy, whether they're thrifted or new. Fortunately, it's easy!| Crafting a Green World
This DIY Coraline button garland is a fun--and sustainable!--way to decorate for a birthday party.| Crafting a Green World
When I say I'm going to show you how to dye pasta, I sure don't mean dyeing it some pale color that looks like a three-year-old would string on yarn.| Crafting a Green World
It's a bummer to have to mend a quilt, but it's honestly not that hard! You just need fusible webbing and matching thread.| Crafting a Green World
Dyed Epsom salts are a cheap, easy, and fun sensory material for preschoolers.| Crafting a Green World
Want a batch of play dough in a hurry? This two-ingredient, no-cook play dough is ready in minutes!| Crafting a Green World
Your next perfect candle holder is as easy as a store-bought mold and some plaster of Paris or cement!| Crafting a Green World
These handmade greeting cards don't require a PhD in Scrapbooking!| Crafting a Green World
You can lay out the pieces the way that they look the prettiest, of course. You can cut your fabric to the exact dimensions you want. You can even use a design wall and plan the whole thing before you sew a stitch. But what you WON'T have to do is follow a pattern! All of the quilt blocks in my list, below, are ones that you can construct as you go or that are so dead simple that you don't need a pattern to make them. Even if you're the most beginning-est of beginners at sewing, I promise tha...| Crafting a Green World
You'll never need store-bought greeting cards again! I don't like to buy things new when I know that they could be handmade, but I'm also not much of a paper crafter. Fortunately, there are so many ways to handmake greeting cards using my favorite craft: sewing!| Crafting a Green World
These bookshelf quilt blocks are a LOT easier to sew than they look!| Crafting a Green World
These quilted greeting cards have a whopping two additional steps over my quilted postcards, so they're still a terrifically quick and easy way to do some scrap-busting of your sewing stash. You should also already either have a mini quilt block in mind OR know how to do the quilt-as-you-go method--here are a ton of mini quilt blocks to pick from, and here's how to quilt as you go!| Crafting a Green World
I’m obsessed with DIY coasters, and I want you to be, too! DIY coasters are the perfect craft project, in my opinion.| Crafting a Green World
You're going to love these adorable mini quilt blocks and mini quilts! No, my mini quilt block obsession is not yet over.| Crafting a Green World
Quilted postcards are a fun way to let someone know you're thinking about them. The scrap busting is a bonus!| Crafting a Green World
These quilt as you go mini quilt blocks are a terrific way to use up fabric scraps, and the finished quilt blocks are endlessly useful in all sorts of ways. I like to use them to sew zippered pouches, stitched coasters, and quilted postcards, in particular, but I have my eye on a few more projects they'd look beautiful in.| Crafting a Green World
A mini quilt block coaster is a useful--and beautiful!--way to destash some of your prettiest quilting cottons.| Crafting a Green World
My log cabin quilt block obsession has grown both larger... and smaller!| Crafting a Green World
Use up your scraps while making this cute and useful quilt as you go scrappy bookmark! Y'all know how much I love myself a DIY bookmark!| Crafting a Green World
Upcycled cardboard is a magical material. It's free from your recycling bin, it's easily modified and embellished, and it's eminently recyclable.| Crafting a Green World
This upcycled cardboard building set is a terrific open-ended toy that won't cost you a cent!| Crafting a Green World
You don't need another set of plastic game pieces kicking around your home, though. Instead, here's how to make any set of polyominoes that you want from sturdy, upcycled, recyclable cardboard.| Crafting a Green World
I have made SO many macrame plant hangers this summer, using my easy technique that lets me make them exactly the length that I want.| Crafting a Green World
This DIY coloring book has a cover made from upcycled cardboard, and filled it with coloring pages downloaded from the interwebs.| Crafting a Green World
You can DIY fabric bins using stash or scrap fabric as a base. You can make all sorts of ways to organize your stuff.| Crafting a Green World
hese nesting fabric baskets give you a lot of storage options. Sew a set in the same colorway from the same fabrics.| Crafting a Green World