How To: Basket Weaving

This summer we’ve been harvesting so many fruits and vegetables from our little organic garden, that I found my self out of picking baskets, with nothing left to harvest the veggies with, and absolutely nowhere to store them I realized I had to get working on some home-made baskets.  I started weaving simple picking baskets, with bright-colored, heavy weight papers, that I found on sale in the big box craft store. These baskets can be made as big or as small as you like, and can even be made to resist water with a few simple coats of Modge Podge. Now we have brightly colored baskets all over the house, all for the price of a $5 pack of paper and a bottle of Elmers glue. Here’s how to get started.

What you will need:
Heavy weight craft paper or cardstock.
Scissors
Whole punch
Elmers glue
Metal ruler
Paper clips

From Onesie To T-Shirt

I’ve been spending quite a bit of my time sowing lately, so when a  friend of mine asked for some help turning her son’s onesie into a T-shirt for his third birthday, I was ready to go.  It was a quick and easy project really great for beginning sowers.  Here is the step by step how to.

One: Start out by measuring the onesie on the child who will wear it. It needs to be long enough to really look like a shirt, about an inch and a half over their waist band. If the onesie isn’t long enough you can add extra material in a coordinating color later.Two: Place your metal ruler on the onesie, and line it up to your cut marks. Then using a rotary cutter slice off the excess fabric. Three: Fold over the fabric .5″ and iron to set it, then fold and iron it again. Four: Look at the style of the stitching on the sleeves and collar, and try to match it as closely as possible. On this t-shirt it was a two straight stiches a .25″ apart.  Here you can see me just about to start the second line of stiches.And there he is playing away!

Crafts – Halloween Activity Book

Halloween is just around the corner and I’ve been working away on my Halloween crafts. I’m making an activity books for my nephews and the other kids that will be coming to our Halloween Party. Inside, there are coloring pages, a maze, word search and more!