Tangled Thread - Tips, Trick and Tutorials in Sewing & Stitching

September 18th, 2008

Sew Sweet giveaway from Fabric.com

Fabric.com is holding a contest to win two fabulous prize packages for more than a $1000 of sewing, designing and quilting goodies!  To say nothing of the gift certificate for $300 of fabric…
The “Sew Sweet” giveaway runs from now until October 31st - and you can enter every day!
Just pick which gift package you’d like […]

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August 15th, 2008

free clip-art from Dover

I love Dover Publications books of iron-on embroidery transfer, clip-art and copyright-free designs! Did you know that they also offer free clip-art & patterns by email subscription?
To subscribe, just enter your email here.
As a bonus, once you subscribe, you’ll have access to several free pattern libraries immediately :-)

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Tags: , books, clip-art, embroidery […]

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August 1st, 2008

inspirational link of the day: new life for old uniforms

My friend Karen sent me this cool link from Craftster - an creative person has taken an old army uniform and turned it into a diaper bag… complete with changing pad!
The link is quite a detailed how-to as well - very cool :-)
Tags: diaper bags, diaper bags from army uniforms, Freebies, How To, links, project […]

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April 18th, 2008

Tangled Thread “Tags & Tie-Dyes” contest

I thought that it’s been too long since I’ve hosted a contest on Tangled Thread… I’m giving away on of my DH’s copper fiber art tags, this one says “Love” in block letters.  I had so many responses about my hand-dyed quilting cottons that I’ve decided to also include five 4 inch squares of the […]

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March 5th, 2008

how consistent are you with sewing? new poll

I’ve got a new poll over on the right sidebar—->  just over that way :-)
The reason I’m asking is because I tend to go through stages of doing a ton of sewing for myself (clothing) or for my family if they’re lucky.  But I don’t consistently sew clothing all the time.  I do however always […]

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March 1st, 2008

spring flowers from Simplicity Patterns

Simplicity Patterns is teaming up with New York’s M&S Schmalberg, Inc, creators of lovely handmade silk flowers - to offer these custom made gardenia’s for 18 lucky customers:

All you have to do it buy either this pattern:

Or this pattern:

Online between now and Monday, March 3rd.  If you’re one of the lucky ladies, Simplicity will contact […]

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August 29th, 2007

decorative covers for casts

I’m not normally a person to make decorative covers for things, but when a sad 8 year old boy asks - why not :-)
My neighbor’s young son just broke his arm a few days ago and really wanted to get a camouflage cast (to match his dad’s uniform, of course)   Unfortunately, the hospital wasn’t […]

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