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Kids Clothes Week Challenge 2012

April 19, 2012 – 3:05 pm
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I’ve signed up for Kids Clothes Week Challenge over at ElsieMarley.com… It sounds like fun! Basically, you set aside one hour a day to focus on completeing a sewing project for your kids. And it’s fun because lots of people are signing up and joining in to share their sewing projects, update on their progress and read more »

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Chinese New Year Dresses

February 2, 2012 – 9:17 am
Strawberry tea party dress

Every Chinese New Year, I go into a sewing frenzy. I used to sew new cushion covers, new curtains for my kitchen, and of course, new dresses for the kids. It’s a Chinese tradition to wear new clothes on the first day of the new year to signify a new  beginning, but many of us read more »

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Make your own Rubber Stamps!

January 15, 2012 – 3:47 pm

A few months ago, I got addicted to this magazine – Mollie Makes, which got me started on crocheting. In the magazine, they invited readers to submit their own craft ideas and mine was lucky to be picked for a feature. Click here to view my tutorial on Rubber stamp making! I first picked this up read more »

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Sewer’s Block

October 13, 2011 – 9:58 am

Is there such a thing? Like writer’s block? Last week inspiration hit me to create a really poofy skirt for my kids. I bought C some purple with white polka dots fabric, plus some white tulle. But the problem with sewing without a pattern is that I overestimated. I was trying to make a gather read more »

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Crochet collar dress

September 12, 2011 – 3:56 pm
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I came across something like this on another blog, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere in my bookmarks. Anyway, the idea was similar but she didn’t have a pattern because she just made it up as she went along, and so I just tried doing the same thing! It is basically a lattice read more »

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Apple Cosies

August 4, 2011 – 4:01 pm

Mollie Makes wasn’t kidding when they said crocheting was addictive. After getting the hand of making the flowers. (No pics yet because they disappeared right off my table when I attached them to elastic hairbands and have already gotten lost, so I need to go look for them) And then I crocheted a bag (a read more »

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Etsy Inspirations

July 28, 2011 – 2:04 am

I was “window shopping” on Etsy for vintage fabrics and stumbled upon this listing. I know it’s not a dress or fabric but I love the pattern! Here is the other one But I’m afraid it will look too much like home dec fabric. Will the dress turn out like a curtain or wallpaper? But read more »

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latest obsession – crochet

July 22, 2011 – 10:57 am

First of all, I would like to say that this magazine is sooo expensive in Singapore (Just like COEs). But I loved the previous issue so much I told myself I needed this one to do further research into crafts and craft related businesses In the end, I ended up with a new obsession – read more »

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New fabric line from Sarah Jane Studios

July 20, 2011 – 12:00 pm

I first came across Sarah’s work on etsy. I bought some prints from her cuz I just love her vintage style illustrations. And guess what! She now has a new fabric line! I can’t get hold of any yet so I can’t take a photo, apparently alot of it is sold out so I have read more »

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