enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: sewing projects
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Last month, I sewed up a flannel dress and last Saturday we finally had "fall-ish" enough weather to wear it. I adore this pattern. It's the Tova dress from Wiksten (also available as a downloadable PDF). It's complicated enough that you feel like you're really making clothes, but easy enough to follow (especially considering this…
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How are we doing? Anyone making progress? I am trucking along. A step at a time. It's a little quilt factory around here and I've considered making the ironing board part of our seasonal decor. I just stick a tree skirt around the bottom and call it festive. As mentioned, I am making four quilts…
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I am on a mission to make four quilts by Christmas. Technically, I'll be wrapping them up (with big red bows) on 12/22, but "Quilts by December 22nd" doesn't have the same ring. One is just for fun and for me to keep (and more than likely will be the first one complete!) but the…
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Alright, friends, I had some requests for a full quilt tutorial, so here we go. Things to know before you start : this is not hard, it just has a lot of steps. If you are comfortable with your sewing machine, you can make a quilt! I will be sharing exactly how I made my…
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Hands down, this is my favorite project so far. Quilts are awesome. There are so many steps, but if you break it down each one is easy enough. And the errors somehow make them more charming. I am totally hooked on smaller size quilts (this is my third quilt, but first that's smaller than a…
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When I last shared, I had a pile of triangles… On Thursday, I turned those triangles into squares. A giant pile of squares. That evening, I trimmed the threads and ironed the seam of each square flat. And then on Friday, I laid out 9 rows of 11 squares (my table is small – so…
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This summer has obviously been busy and the fall is looking just as crazy. Much of what's on my list professionally for the next few months is writing, writing and more writing. I'll be developing content for my Big Picture class and helping out with another e-course (more details on both projects in the next…
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Oh, leather. Since day one, I knew you'd turn into a clutch, but I didn't know you'd look like this. To be fair, I didn't use actual leather, I used "fake lamb leather" in "leather brown" color and purchased it from this etsy shop. My first attempt to use this fabric was a massive fail.…
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I should put "complete three just for fun projects" on my goals list every month. I'm getting more accomplished in June than in the past three months, for sure. I feel like I've had this pillow on my mind for months – at least since I posted about this one from Crate & Barrel last…
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Sometimes I see stuff on Pinterest and I re-pin and sigh, "someday." Other times I pin something and immediately shut my computer and head to the fabric/craft store. This dress (pinned here and original source/tutorial here) was one of the latter. But the result was somehow hilarious and I was wildly entertained on Sunday afternoon…
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