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French Press Cozy
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T-Shirt to Newborn Gown Tutorial
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Click here to read all about how to make newborn gowns from old t-shirts.
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Sew Your Own Cloth Diapers
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Birthday Banner Tutorial
Another incredible idea from Kristin at See Mommy Sew. I don’t think I’ll be able to get this one finished in time for Hubby’s birthday at the end of the month, but I would love to make this someday. It is just soooo much cuter than the cheap ones at the store, and will hold up better over years and years of use too. 
You could even make one for every person in your family in customized colors, or with a third banner that had their name on it!
(Pssst… Kristin… cute living room, too! 
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Stretch Waist Skirt
Okay, okay… maybe over at See Mommy Sew, she calls it a maternity skirt, but since I am not in a place in my life where one of those is needed, I just call it darn cute, easy to make, and comfy.
Ruffled Pillows Pattern and Tutorial
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Basic Embroidery Tutorial
I want to learn to do some basic hand stitches to cute-ify some of my sewing projects, and the purl bee has a really simple tutorial over on her website:
Elemental Embroidery Tutorial by the purl bee.
Smocket
A totally adorable smocket pattern from The Mayfly (it’s cuter when you actually see it on a kid, but I didn’t want to copy pictures of someone else’s child onto my blog… that just felt creepy… so follow the link to see it on an adorable little model).
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One Man’s Trash is My Treasure: A Tutorial for Etching Glass
Oh my goodness. I am so excited and proud of my latest project!
Some day this week was junk pick-up day in the city (I was told it was Monday, but trash stayed out on the curb in some places until Wednesday). I’m always eyeballing the curbs when this happens, just hoping for some lost treasure… and this time I found it! Driving home from work on Tuesday, I spotted an old white window pane sitting by the road. I quickly turned around, pulled up in the driveway of the house (this is during rush hour, mind you, and in the rain, and in my good work clothes), threw it in the car, and squealed out.
I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I decided on this design:
And set to work getting it etched into my new glass.
I have made a quick rundown of the steps involved, in case anybody else wants to try it.
How To Create Your Own Glass Etching Design
1. Find some glass that you’d like to etch.
2. Find a design (or you could freehand the drawing, in which case you’d be a lot more artistic than myself).
3. Buy white Contact brand paper and some glass etching cream (I got mine from Michael’s, I’m sure most craft stores carry it).
3a. Almost croak when the cashier rings up your total because you didn’t look at how ridiculously expensive the etching cream is.
4. Load your design into Photoshop (or a similar program… your best bet is actually one that has a poster printing option, as I’ll explain in step 5) and change the dimensions of it to match the size you want it on the glass.
5. This gets tricky. I cropped and printed small sections of the design one at a time and then taped them together because Photoshop doesn’t have a poster setting.
6. Tape the printed design to the back of the contact paper and trace it onto the contact paper.
7. Since I was doing a window, I measured each pane and the width of the pieces between the panes and drew it out on top of the traced design. I cut out all of the places where it wasn’t going to be glass.
8. Apply the contact paper to the glass and trace over every line with a razor blade. The parts you peel off will be the parts that are etched. Clean the exposed parts with Windex so the cream will have a good clean surface to adhere to. Here is my window all cut out and ready to etch:
9. Put on a mask over your nose and mouth, long sleeves, pants, cleaning gloves, and safety glasses. Lock your pets and husband in another room. This stuff is no joke.
10. Apply to glass according to the directions on the bottle. Mine only had to sit for 5 minutes.
11. Because of the scale of mine, I wiped the cream off with damp paper towels until it was all gone.
12. Peel off Contact paper and appreciate your new one-of-a-kind work of art!
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