Pink Penguin Tutorials

If you want to learn to make a paper pieced teapot or a cute drawstring bag or even an adorable fabric basket, head over to the Pink Penguin blog. She has some amazing tutorials and takes such beautiful photos. I know she just loves to get comments from readers too, so if you make anything using her tutorials, please let her know and tell her Anna sent you! Someday I hope I’ll even have time to make something using her directions!

Happy Stitches,

Anna

Cure Your Fear of Curves (tutorial)

Sarah, an WONDERFUL designer and author from Australia posted a tutorial on her blog about how to sew curves. When I saw it I thought, “Oh no, ” and had horrible flash backs of the Drunkard’s Path blocks from my sewing class. Then I read on and looked at her pictures (super helpful in sewing tutorials) and it looks not too bad! Also, her last sentence is “…very different to the curved piecing you would want to do on a Dunkard’s Path block or something of that sort which requires precision.” Ha! She pegged me! That is the reason I had so much trouble that darned precision! So, please, please visit Sarah’s blog post about piecing curves.

Happy Piecing,

Anna

Directions

I am thinking about taking this blog in a new direction (anything is better than the direction it was going in, which was NO WHERE.) I keep finding such wonderful tutorials all around blogland and I would like to have a place to list them and maybe if someone finds this blog, they’ll be able to access the list of tutorials. This mostly comes from the fact that a) I have very little time to actually write tutorials for projects and b) I have more time to surf around and find the great tutorials written by others. I sincerely hope they don’t mind me linking to their ‘tuts’ as they are called. I promise to give credit where credit is due, because even though I would love to be the one writing the instructions, I also love to do the research. Also, if I continue along the lines of posting things in alphabetical categories, hopefully that will make it easier to find the tutorials.  So, let’s hope I can keep up with this idea. I’ll also try to keep posting my own ideas about sewing and quilting as I was formerly doing, and sprinkle in those tutorials whenever I can.

Happy Stitches to You,

Anna