My fabric cabinet(s) are filled to the top of most shelves with fabric of all sizes and yardages. I just can’t seem to walk by those fabrics in the stores that are “calling out for me!” I love fabric sales and it never fails – I also find regular priced stuff I just can’t live […]
fabric scraps
Seamstresses and Alterationists – Bring Out Your Scraps!!
We’ve talked about fabric scraps previously and the need to save them and categorize them for easy access. Today, we’re going to talk about two craft items that can be made out of your scraps — to be used by yourself, given as gifts, taken to a craft fair or put on ebay. Anyway you […]
Decorating With Scraps
Trims by the yard and large-motif trims are great for use in making Christmas ornaments, greeting cards and gift items. A burlap wall hanging or a greeting card made out of construction paper can have candles of woven-braid trim, each topped by a flickering flame (a single notch from gold rickrack makes a perfect flame). […]
Flowers from fabric remnants
If you’re like most of us in the sewing business field, we tend to accumulate boxes and drawers full of fabric scraps. A few months ago I made up my mind that those scraps in the boxes and drawers were NOT making me any money, and decided to put my thinking cap on to see […]
Holiday Sale & Yard Sale Goes Hand in Hand
I have just figured out another GREAT way to sell your craft items – get rid of some of your fabric scraps and make some extra money! Do you live in an area where you hold yard sales or garage sales from time to time? Or if you live in a subdivision perhaps you can organize […]
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Today is Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate than to figure out ways we can reduce, reuse and recycle — not just in our businesses, but in our homes as well.If we all determined to do a little more recycling of things we’d normally toss into the trash can, we could literally “save […]