One day I looked around my house and saw lots of red. I love red, and yes I picked out all of this furniture, and yes it was just a few years ago, but now, I want a clean, crisp, neutral, linen palette. A few months ago my bedroom went from this to this (click […]
Feed Sack Kitchen Skirt
The photos in this post were taken at our old city house. For those of you that sent condolences on the loss of my sewing machine, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. There wasn’t much of a service, just me saying, “Oh crap!” over the corpse. But I moved on to a new love. […]
The Big City Bedroom Reveal
Well, if you have been following the posts lately, you know I have been sewing like crazy. The last thing to show you in my newly neutral bedroom is my new bedding. (Yes I know I just got a new quilt for the ranch, but this is the city. I am loving the creamy neutrals […]
A New Slip for my French Settee
I have sewn many, many slipcovers in my day, sofas, club chairs, little dining chairs, a loveseat, and even several wing chairs, but never did I have a challenge like this one. Let’s call her Colette. She’s gorgeous, curvy, and not easy to sew for. People ask me all the time how I make slipcovers, […]
Another Feedsack Pillow Tutorial
Are you tired of seeing the daybed on my back porch? I hope not, since I have another tutorial on the feedsack pillows. Today we will be covering this smaller pillow. The daybed project can be seen here, the backporch project can be seen here, and the tutorial on the large feedsack pillows can be seen here. […]
LAZY MARTHA project Vintage Feedsack Pillows
I promised to show how I made the daybed cover and pillows in Dreamy Daybed Redo click here, and here is the “how to” for the pillows. I made four different types of pillows (all from vintage feedsacks) and the daybed cover. This post is about the large pillows with the single blue stripe, shown below. Feedsack pillow on […]
Dreamy Daybed Redo with Feedsacks and Linen
I wasn’t going to blog about this project yet, since I have several posts already written and pretty much ready to go, but I couldn’t stand it any longer. This is what I did ALL of last week. I will show pictures later of how I made the pillows and the cover for the daybed but here are the […]
Beautiful Budget-Friendly Burlap Ideas
Burlap is the new silk if you haven’t noticed. It is popping up everywhere. In perusing the Ballard Designs website and catalog, I have saw several items of interest, that acted as a jumping off point for me. I wondered how I could add a little burlap love to our country home. I first made […]
