Sewing category

  • Iron Craft Challenge #5 – Flower Pot Pincushions

    So a little confession here, often when I am posing an Iron Craft challenge I already have an inkling of what project I might do to meet it. This time with the dollar store challenge, I went in withou...
    Mar 13, 2012 7 Comments

  • Love On The Rocks – A Serger Update

    Recently, I got a new-to-me serger. Armed with lots of enthusiasm, and a solid working knowledge of sewing, and a dog eared manual, I got started. There were trials and trials, and more trials. I bro...
    Mar 12, 2012 5 Comments

  • Weekend Eye Candy

    Would you, could you with a needle? Would you, could you with some thread? Knit a Lorax with this free pattern from Rachel Gallagher-Miller? Wear a Cat in the Hat style hat from Craft Elf? Quilt up...
    Mar 03, 2012 No Comments

  • Bag of the Month – Penelope Bag

    Happy leap day! We are coming in right under the wire for the February bag of the month. Actually I have an excuse, this bag was my latest Iron Craft project and I wasn’t allowed to show it unti...
    Feb 29, 2012 1 Comment

  • Iron Craft Challenge #4 – Penelope Bag

    For this Iron Craft Challenge, Susi asked us to create something inspired by something we’d seen in a catalog, store or online that we didn’t buy, because we could make it. I had pinned a ...
    Feb 28, 2012 1 Comment

  • Which came first? The lesson or the serger?

    I have wanted  a serger for YEARS now. I see so many cute dresses and leggings and knit pieces, and I just think “I could make those for the cost of the fabric.” (A serger a type of sewin...
    Feb 20, 2012 10 Comments

  • Designing On The Fly

    Yesterday, I showed you the fleece blanket sweater I made for this week’s Iron Craft challenge. Making it was a interesting experiment in sewing without a pattern and I wanted to share the proce...
    Feb 15, 2012 1 Comment

  • Iron Craft Challenge #3 – Fleece Blanket Sweater

    The theme for this week’s Iron Craft challenge was Warm Up. At first I didn’t feel very inspired because I had just finished knitting the Sweetheart Mittens and couldn’t think of any...
    Feb 14, 2012 4 Comments

  • Weekend Eye Candy

    I love plushies! Radcliff Raccoon from Flickr user Danielleorama. I love, love, love the square shape. (check our her Theory of Cute Etsy shop). Doesn’t Tawny by Tiddlywinksdolls look like h...
    Jan 28, 2012 1 Comment

  • Bag of the Month – Seat Back Tote

    Hi, this is Jenny from A Mom and 2 Things welcoming you to the first Bag of the Month here at Just Crafty Enough. When Susi said she was thinking about doing a Bag of the Month, I told her that I wou...
    Jan 25, 2012 3 Comments