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Midlife Quilter

Find your AGF Sewcialite Bundle!

Find your AGF Sewcialite Bundle!

As you know, I'm an AGF Sewcialite this year!  When I was a teenager, I loved taking quizzes that promised to match me with my ideal style, my ideal job, etc.  It was so fun to take those magazine quizzes and I wanted to capture that feeling again. There are 10 AGF Sewcialite bundles and they each are so gorgeous in their own right.  Take the quiz below to find your "ideal" bundles!   I'm partial to Beloved myself, but I am admittedly biased. Have fun and remember this is for entertainment purposes only.  You can read all about the Sewcialite crew...

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How to Make a Pillow Case

How to Make a Pillow Case

Spring time is when I love to do a bedding refresh!  Pillow cases are a wonderful way to spruce up a space and make something unique. A pillow case was one of the first things I ever made.  If you can sew a straight line—you can make these pillow cases. What I love about using this “burrito” method of making a pillow case is that it creates a lovely finish and the use of French seams means there are no raw seams to fray when you wash them. I like to use Art Gallery fabrics quilting cotton for my pillowcases. ...

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How I Continued to Create Through Grief

How I Continued to Create Through Grief

Shown: Vista Quilt made in April 2023. Pattern by Sharon Holland. Fabrics are Kindred by Art Gallery Fabrics, also designed by Sharon Holland.  In the last five weeks, my life has changed in ways that will impact me forever.  I’ve experienced grief in a raw, unnerving way.  And in the middle of all of it, I had to stay creative and keep sewing at a time when I just wanted to huddle up and die myself. I am still navigating through this.  Maybe in a few weeks I’ll have better answers, but I wanted to share what I’ve learned and...

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How to Make Corn Heating Pads

How to Make Corn Heating Pads

  Even though spring is starting to spring, the nights and mornings here in West Michigan can still be quite chilly. One of the most useful sewing projects I know is the corn heating pads my mother in law used to make for us! Every Christmas, we could count on them to be in our Christmas stockings.  But these last couple of years, my mother in law has been spending her winters in Arizona.  (She is so lucky!) So it has now fallen on me to make the corn heating pads we love so much! I made a few at...

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How to Make Your Own Reversible Duvet Cover

How to Make Your Own Reversible Duvet Cover

This post is written as part of my AGF Sewcialite Series and is sponsored by Art Gallery Fabrics.  This post also contains affiliate links, which means that I may earn a small commission when you purchase through these links.  There are no additional costs to you.  Although it isn't quite spring yet, we've had a few sunny days here in West Michigan and some of the birds are flying back to stay! Spring cleaning is one of my favorite things and it also always makes me want to refresh the house linens.   When I saw these new 108" widebacks available from...

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