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Christmas In July!!!!  50% OFF Everything in Gift Store!

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That’s right!  This year our Christmas In July sale is the best ever, with every item in our Gift Store marked down 50% – just use the promo code: Christmas50.

Our gift store is packed with all sorts of gifts —- gifts for you, gifts for friends, gifts for parties and much more.

Our gift categories include Square Fabric Tissue Box Covers — Dress up the look of the rooms around your house by using a colorful, pretty square tissue box cover. During pollen season we have tissue boxes in nearly every room – later when the “cold and flu” season starts, we have them in EVERY room!   These are also great for your office, or a nice gift for a loved one’s room at the hospital or a “just because” gift for a friend.  The fabric tissue box cover is hemmed at the bottom, all seams are finished and fits perfectly over the square tissue boxes.

Eye Masks – Migraine cooling eye mask.  Puffy Eye Relief, Stress Relief, Headache Relief, Sinus Pain Relief, Cold and Flu Eye Pack, Unisex Eye Mask

Use our Handmade Hot Cold Eye Masks to help decrease your pain, discomfort, and tension as well as promoting emotional and physical support on those stressful days. Benefits are dramatic! Feel the effects as they promote calming, relaxing, and healing properties.  You can see how our Eye Masks are shaped so there is ample cooling area in the forehead as well as under the eyes.

Car Clutch Pockets – an item nearly everybody needs.  The Car Clutch Pocket “stops the drops” – meaning the keys, food, glasses, etc that somehow slide through the opening between the car seat and the console.  You can see the items, but just can’t reach them!  The Car Clutch Pockets are placed in that opening, attaches to the seat belt, so those items simply drop into the “pocket”.  The Car Clutch Pockets come in a set of two – one for each side of the console.

Cooling Bandanas – The TropiCooler Cooling Bandana wrap is great for various outdoor activities like gardening, hiking, walking, golfing, biking, fishing, mowing the grass, outdoor sporting events, BBQing, construction workers, and many more.  Also great for hot flashes and sore muscles.

Sample Sale – When we make patterns to sell, we make samples of the product to show in the sewing pattern.  From time to time we put these samples online to sell, so this Sample Sale category is just that – samples made from our sewing patterns.  NOTE:  Just to let you know, items in the Sample Sale category go fast, so check them out early.

Check out all the items that are in this super sale – use the promo code Christmas50 to get the 50% discount off EVERYTHING in the gift shop!  The sale is good through the month of July.  Happy Shopping!

AND, while you’re looking around, don’t forget the Sewing Book section where you’ll find Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer, Serger Repair For The Home Sewer, Complete Guide To Treadle Sewing Machines, as well as other sewing books already marked down 50% or more – no promo code necessary for the sewing books.

Tutorial – DIY Fabric Wreath

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Materials needed:

Plastic wrapped straw wreath and a couple yards solid color fabric, or two or three colors of co-ordinating solids and a print fabric of your choosing

Step 1:  Purchase a plastic wrapped straw wreath – ours is a 14″ diameter wreath.  DO NOT take the plastic wrap off the wreath – the plastic helps secure the fabric in place.

Step 2:  With pinking shears, cut the fabric into 4″ squares.  Ours has a green print with green and white solid fabrics.  You can choose colors for Valentine’s day, St. Patrick’s Day, 4th of July, Fall colors or Christmas colors — this will be so much fun to make, why not make one for every season and Holiday and keep your front door beautiful all year long.  NOTE:  You will need a couple hundred squares, depending on the size of your wreath.

Step 3:  To assemble – wrap one square around the tip of a small screwdriver, keeping the right side to the outside.  Put a drop of school glue on the tip of the square before inserting the fabric into the straw wreath.

Step 4:  Poke the fabric into the wreath, using the screwdriver, making sure the fabric is secure in the straw wreath (reason for the glue is to hold the fabric in place so it can’t be pulled out easily).

Step 5: Keep poking the fabric squares into the wreath, putting them approximately 1″ apart.  Fill the outside and inside of the wreath, alternating colors – if using co-ordinating colors – leaving only about a 2″ empty area on the back, as the following picture shows. (OR you can completely fill the straw wreath if you prefer).

Step 6:  Place a wreath hanger on the back or do a string tie on the back to hang the wreath.  Now you’re ready to decorate your front door!

Awesome NEW Fabric Tissue Box Covers To Check Out!

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Recently we had a cyber sale on our Tissue Box Cover PDF Pattern, and the response was terrific!!!  We were pleasantly surprised how many of our Christmas and Holiday fabric tissue box covers we sold, as well as the pattern.

We have added many more tissue box cover styles that we think you might like to check out…………for example look at the playful dogs on gray background tissue cover!

If you’re looking for tissue box covers for a man’s office, a teenager’s room or a gift for friends or relatives, look at the Blue Jeans and Black Denim tissue box covers.  This could be a perfect gift to be used all year long!

We invite you to check back on a regular basis as we are adding new designs and styles often.

Cyber Sale on DIY Tissue Box Cover Pattern

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Tissue box covers make an excellent gift for just about anyone!  During our CYBER WEEK SALE we’re giving you a 15% discount on our newest pattern – covers for tissue boxes!  No coupon code is necessary – prices are already marked down.

The DIY Tissue Box Cover pattern has full size pattern pieces for all three tissue box sizes – large rectangle, short rectangle and square.

Tissue box covers can be made out of remnant fabrics, so dig into your scrap box and start creating some great Kleenex box covers.  You can make sports related tissue box covers, patriotic covers, favorite pet fabric covers (these are a HUGE success!), nursery room tissue box covers, and that’s only a beginning.

For all those that do sewing and alterations and have a customer waiting area, I would suggest you make some fall, Thanksgiving and Christmas fabric tissue box covers – put them in your customer area, with price tags, and be ready to sell a lot of them.

If you’d like to see some that I have available already made up, check out my store at Etsy.com – I have some fancy Lace Tissue Box Covers and a wide variety of Fabric Tissue Box Covers.

Regular price for the Tissue Box Cover Pattern is $4.95, but your price during this sale is $4.21.  Download your pattern today and make some winter / Christmas tissue box covers to give to co-workers, friends and relatives – don’t forget to dress up your house this Holiday Season with one in every room!