Sewing Archives - Lynda Heines Fabric Design

Cards and More Cards

By: Lynda April 28, 2020May 1, 2020

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I’ve really enjoyed using stamps to make appliques and embellishments on cards. Here are some of the ones I’ve made so far.

Foam stamp applique

By: Lynda April 22, 2020April 28, 2020

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I really like using stamps in different ways than just stamping the image on fabric. In this past post, I stamped and then thread stitched to make the applique. In this post, I’m making an applique using pieces of the stamped image.

Reverse Applique with four fabrics

By: Lynda April 13, 2020April 20, 2020

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I really love reverse applique. You can check out my tutorial here. However, I was only using a top and bottom fabric. Today I’m sewing reverse applique with four fabrics.

Sunday Roundup -April 5, 2020

By: Lynda April 5, 2020April 13, 2020

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Have you noticed how much people are blogging lately? Bloggers who only post weekly are posting every day or so. And it’s not just bloggers, businesses are emailing so much.

Making Masks

By: Lynda March 23, 2020April 5, 2020

Sewing, Uncategorizedface masks, sewing10 Comments

One thing I love about Facebook is you can find ways to help. Through the local quilters guild page (which I’ve not been a member in years) I found out that one of the local hospital needed face masks. After looking at the directions I figured I could make them.

Hidden Surprise

By: Lynda March 17, 2020March 23, 2020

Ramblings, Sewing, upcyclingsurprises, vintage quilts12 Comments

Dave has been spending a lot of time the past several weeks organizing. Once gardening season begins everything else pretty much is put on hold. We have an area in the garage where we put stuff in boxes for me to take to the local thrift store, or the Goodwill truck.

Stamped stitched applique

By: Lynda March 12, 2020March 17, 2020

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Thanks for all of the comments and private messages about my last post. My muse is not all the way back yet, but just writing and sharing about it, made me feel so much better. So I have been doing a little creating include making stamped stitched applique.

Rubber Stamps and Free Motion

By: Lynda February 15, 2020February 29, 2020

Free Motion, Rubber Stamps, Sewing4 Comments

Every year I make a Valentine card for Dave. This year I was having trouble coming up with an idea. I started going through my supplies and saw my rubber stamps I rarely use. Why not use rubber stamps and free motion?

Upcycled Tunic

By: Lynda January 22, 2020February 7, 2020

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Recently, I have seen a lot of really cool upcycled tunics and tops. I’ve wanted to try my hand at doing that, but had no idea where to start until I found Wendy Bryant’s online classroom. She has a free course “Upcycling a t-shirt or a tunic.” I watched that class, and then purchased her…