Sewing and Pattern Design Archives (2024)

Have you ever wished you had a Retro-Style Shirt-Collar Dress Pattern for your little girl? Our tutorial shows you how to remodel a basic pattern into a lay-open pointed collar pattern. My niece visited this winter, bringing her sweet little girls with her. She sews the cutest dresses for them. On one of the…

Today we want to show you how we create a Raglan Bodice Pattern from our basic bespoke pattern. In these posts we showed you how to make a bespoke Bodice Pattern, made exactly to your measurements: Learn Bespoke Sewing: 7 Measurements To A Basic Bodice Pattern Develop Your Personal Pattern: Bespoke Sewing Part 2…

You need to know how to make a Peter Rabbit outfit when you put on a Mr. McGregor’s Garden Baby Shower. Here’s the pattern for the twig stand, blue coat and little tam-o’-shanter hat. We saw this lovely corner room box card by pixiehill.com and it became our inspiration. In our Mr. McGregor’s Garden Baby…

Super easy beginner macrame belt pattern. This project takes 30 minutes! Square knots on alternating cords makes it economical, too. We all like a macrame project where we don’t have tons of cord left over, right? This belt pattern is the one! In fact, after making a few, in different colors to match every…

You’ll want to make all your fleece Baby Blankets with this amazing and easy bow-edge. Yarn, needle and scissors make a magically sweet border. We’ve talked about sewing with the Church ladies, like in this post, and last time I brought home a project to finish for our Christmas Baby Bundles. Every year…

Our post today shares how to design a Quarter Circle Skirt Pattern. This Sewing Tutorial shows how to use an online calculator or to just fold your fabric, measure and cut. Did we tell you our family on the Little Farm by the River is expecting a baby? Yep, we are super excited! She/He…

Do you like striped fabric? If you do, here’s an easy pattern variation tutorial for you to try: cut the stripes in different directions for style interest. Every once in awhile, our paper of the day has nothing to do with stationery. Like when we sew, and the paper of patterns is in focus….

Here’s how to make a princess style pattern alteration to get a perfect fit. Fixes the issue of seam drape to fit the apex of the blouse front. Last week my friend came over with a pattern and a plan. She wants to sew a coat dress for her son’s fall wedding, but she…

Quick and Easy No-Sew Phone Pocket. Wear this mini tool apron so you don’tlose calls while you go from kitchen to basem*nt to garden. This isn’t a magic cure for never leaving your phone in the wrong place, and it’s not as handy as a built-in pocket. But this can be a great no-sew…

Sustainable Market Bags DIY. Learn how to make an origami tote for your weekly grocery haul, plus simple muslin produce pouches to organize and ecologize your refrigerator. Yes, ecologize is a word. A good word. At kimenink we try to ecologize, even though we don’t always succeed. You know, we forget the market bags…

Ruffled Diaper Cover 2. Baby Layette Sewing Tutorial The sweetest diaper cover ever, but easier than “Ruffle Butt” style. Last week we debuted our pattern for a Ruffled Diaper Coverin this post. You can also download the free pattern from that post for a short time. After that it will be available in our baby…

Ruffled Diaper Cover DIY: Baby Sewing Tutorial For when your baby girl has an adorable dress without a matching diaper cover. Or you have her dressed in a onesie and leggings or tights, and she needs RuffleButts but you don’t have any. No worries. This easy sewing DIY can be whipped up in…