Sewing Archives - Lynda Heines Fabric Design

Letters, Lots of Letters

By: Lynda November 10, 2019November 10, 2019

cats, Giveaway, purses, Sew Powerful, Sewingcats, genealogy, letters, Sew Powerful, sewing4 Comments

I’ve got letters, lots of letters.

Ethel Tote

By: Lynda September 6, 2019September 23, 2019

purses, Sewing, totesethel tote, purses, sewing, Swoon, totes2 Comments

In my quest to use up some of my fabric, I sewed another tote. This one will go in our local library auction. I didn’t have enough of the ice dyed fabric, so added the yellow which I low immersion dyed last month for another project. This is a free pattern from Swoon. This pattern…

Raven cloth dolls

By: Lynda August 16, 2019August 26, 2019

cloth dolls, fabric, fabric scraps, hand stitching, recyclingcloth dolls, Kelli Perkins, recycled crafts, Sobo, upcycling6 Comments

I was cleaning my computer desktop the other day and ran across a pdf from Interweave about making art dolls. It’s a compilation of past articles in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine. Here is a link to the download.

August Under The Needle

By: Lynda August 7, 2019August 16, 2019

bookmaking, cats, Elna SU Cams, Free Motion, Free-motion, Sewingcats, Elna SU, free motion stitching, freemotion, stitch book4 Comments

It seems like I’ve not gotten much done lately. But I did finally finish my Elna Stitch Book.

Elna Cam Surprises

By: Lynda July 30, 2019August 7, 2019

Elna SU Cams, SewingElna cams, Elna SU, sewing, stitches8 Comments

Sometimes I can not believe what I don’t know! I have owned this Elna SU since 1987.

Upcycling Old Jeans

By: Lynda May 12, 2019May 21, 2019

Sewing, upcycling4 Comments

I love using my dyed fabric, but I have been wanting to try upcycling some old jeans and other thrift fabric I have around my studio. Before cutting up the jeans, I needed to decide what I was going to make. If I wanted straps made from the jeans I wanted to make sure I…

How to: Fabric Badges

By: Lynda March 10, 2019March 24, 2019

fabric, fabric scraps, Free Motion, Free-motion, hand stitching, Sewing, tutorialsCircle Sew Simple, fabric badges, fabric tutorial, Nancy Zieman, tutorial8 Comments

I have a new obsession – fabric badges.

February 2019: Around Here

By: Lynda February 28, 2019March 10, 2019

art exhibits, card making, hand sewing, hand stitching, leaf printing, teachingEmily Gartner, Fashion Art Design Collective, hand stitching, stitch meditation, teachingLeave a Comment

So what’s been going on around here this month? For Valentine’s Day I again made Dave a card. And since I’m back to hand stitching, I made this which reminds me of the string art from my childhood days. Do you remember doing that?

Thoughts on Free Motion

By: Lynda February 22, 2019February 28, 2019

Free Motion, Free-motion, Inktense Blocksfree motion, free motion sewing, inktense blocks7 Comments

I have this love/hate thing with free motion stitching. In my quest for the perfect stitch, I have spent countless hours and lots of bobbins on trying to find that special thread or thread combination so that I could have finish some pieces.