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I Heart You Pillow

Finished Size: Approximately 12˝ high

What Do I Need?

•½ yard of fun decorator- weight fabric

•Fat quarter of fun fabric for the pocket (see Fat Quarter)

•Red perle cotton, size 8 (optional)

•Polyfill stuffing

• Basic sewing supplies

If you are using a ¼˝ presser foot, don’t forget to use washi tape as a guide to make the correct seam allowance width for this project.

special skills

•Refer to The Rules of Sewing

• Making and using templates

• Sewing around a corner

• Clipping curves

• Sewing a backstitch

• Sewing a whipstitch

• Using an iron

Prepare the Pieces

1.Trace the template patterns for the heart pillow and pillow pocket. Use the template

2.to cut 2 heart pieces from the decorator-weight fabric.

HERE’S his ragged “roundabout”

Turn the pockets inside out:

See; his pen-knife, lost to use,

Rusted shut with apple-juice;

Here, with marbles, top and string,

Is his deadly “devil-sling,”

With its rubber, limp at last

As the sparrows of the past!

Beeswax—buckles—leather straps—

Bullets, and a box of caps,—

Not a thing of all, I guess,

But betrays some waywardness—

E’en these tickets, blue and red,

For the Bible-verses said—

Such as this his mem’ry kept—

“Jesus wept.”

Here’s a fishing hook-and-line,

Tangled up with wire and twine,

And dead angle-worms, and some

Slugs of lead and chewing-gum,

Blent with scents that can but come

From the oil of rhodium.

Here—a soiled, yet dainty note,

That some little sweetheart wrote,

Dotting,—“Vine grows round the stump,”

And—“My sweetest sugar lump!”

Wrapped in this—a padlock key

Where he’s filed a touch-hole—see!

a teeny bit more challenging

Super-Sweet-Smelling Lavender Sachets

Finished Size: Approximately 4¾˝ × 6½˝

What Do I Need?

•Large scrap at least 6˝ × 15˝ or ¼ yard of cotton fabric for the outer bag (You can make 3 bags with ¼ yard.)

•Large scrap at least 5˝ × 14˝ of muslin for the inner bag

•⅛ yard of fun-colored cotton for the ties

•Dried lavender (about 1 cup)

• Basic sewing supplies

special skills

•Refer to The Rules of Sewing

• Using an iron

If you are using a ¼˝ presser foot, don’t forget to use washi tape as a guide to make the correct seam allowance width for this project.

Prepare the Pieces

1.Cut 1 piece of cotton fabric to measure 5½˝ × 14˝ for the outer bag.

2.Cut 1 piece of muslin to measure 4½˝ × 13˝ for the inner bag.

3.Cut 2 pieces of cotton to measure 2˝ × 22½˝ for the ties.

a teeny bit more challenging

Pom-Pom Scarf

Finished Size: Approximately 7¼˝ × 49¼˝

What Do I Need?

•½ yard of lovely fleece or wool fabric (at least 50˝ wide)

•3 balls of yarn in fun colors

•Coordinating sewing thread

•4 pieces of cardboard 5˝ × 5˝ (You can cut up a cardboard box.)

• Basic sewing supplies

If you are using a ¼˝ presser foot, don’t forget to use washi tape as a guide to make the correct seam allowance width for this project.

special skills

•Refer to The Rules of Sewing

• Sewing a whipstitch

• Sewing around a corner

Prepare the Pieces

Cut 2 pieces of scarf fabric to measure 8˝ × 50˝.

Let’s Make It

THE SCARF

Place the 2 scarf pieces right sides together and pin all the way around.

Mark a 5˝-long no-sew zone near the center of a long edge of the scarf. This is the area that we do not want to sew.

WHEN Little Claude was naughty wunst

At dinner-time, an’ said

He won’t say “Thank you” to his Ma,

She maked him go to bed

An’ stay two hours an’ not git up,—

So when the clock struck Two,

Nen Claude says,—“Thank you, Mr. Clock,

I’m much obleeged to you!”