Tadaa Studio — tutorials

So, my card table had seen better days.  The cheap vinyl covering had scratches and tears, so it always required a tablecloth.  My usual solution was to cover with a piece of chalkcloth - instant fun kids table!  A great solution, but still the table was lacking. This project was definitely easy, took about an hour of actual work time and had minimal pain in the #$%  annoyances. Do learn from my mistake, take a staple that works in your staple gun to the store so you buy the right size, nothing like a hardware store run to kill your...

[caption id="attachment_447" align="aligncenter" width="216" caption="Step 1: Cut sleeves and neck opening to create handles"] Welcome to everyone who just found us via Lish's fab blog post on Craft about our appearance at the Ann Arbor Mini-Maker Faire a couple weeks ago. We had a blast teaching folks to make over 200 t-shirt bags.  We met loads of great people, many who never had attempted using a sewing machine before and couldn't believe how much fun and easy it was.  Plus the bags were the perfect accessory for Mini-Maker to carry all the loot from other booth's make and takes folks...

This is the time of year to go through the kid’s closets and try on summer clothes and shoes to figure out what doesn’t fit and move it down to the next child in line. To give the old shoes a little bit of new attitude, here is an idea to remake girls dress shoes. In our case, we had a barely worn pair of white dress flats that mysteriously had glitter and nail polish all over them, hence making them unacceptable, in the opinion of the next child. Fair enough. So, I went digging and found some leftover bright...

It always happens that in the midst of a sewing or craft project that neat stack of materials and supplies that I have gathered becomes scattered all over the place: thread in one spot, notions covered by fabrics, pattern packet and instructions separated from each other.  Sometimes I feel like more time is spent searching for the pieces I need than actually sewing.  Here is a simple way to be stylishly organized. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: less than an hour Materials: Chunky Picture frame 11” x 14” 4 -2-1/2” finish nails 4 cup hooks 2 clothes pins & 2 1" finish nails...

First Communion is coming up quickly, only two weeks away, and I just finished the dress over the weekend.  Now it is time to make the veil, a fun and quick project that could also be adapted to make a wedding veil for a little girl's dress-up box. Time: 1 hour for the basic veil, a little more time for adding custom details Materials : $5 approx. 1 yard tulle 45" wide-  the finer the tulle the nicer it will drape 1/4" satin ribbon (5 yards) thread fabric padded headband assorted millinery flowers -optional Step 1: Fold in half width-wise...