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One Yard Wonders is Here

I just received my copy of One Yard Wonders.  It's a compilation by Rebecca Yaker and Patricia Hoskins of sewing projects contributed by sewers from all over the Interwebs . . . including me.  The idea is that each project in the book can be made with a single yard of fabric.

I even made the back cover!

 
It's a spiral-bound book with full-size patterns.  Yay!

 
Here's a photo of my project.  It's a version of the charging station basket made with a single fabric.  The book includes lots of other projects: home dec items, baby gifts, simple clothing, bags.  With 101 different projects, there's a little of everything.
 

Storey Publishing is having a yard-of-the-month sweepstakes on their blog, which you can check out here.
 

November Fabric Focus

Happy Thanksgiving!  I'm getting ready to go to my parents' house for turkey and board games this afternoon and hope that everyone else has something nice planned too.

 
My November project for Sew, Mama, Sew! is up today.  You can find it here.

I'm guessing that most of you are already familiar with their annual Handmade Holidays feature but, if you haven't already, check out their daily posts in November featuring links to gifts you can make yourself, handmade gifts you can buy and gret holiday recipes.   

 
This is a simple gift project -- A fabric folder holding laminated fabric-backed recipe cards.  The cards are held together with both fusible webbing and iron-on vinyl.

For those of you who have been having trouble finding iron-on vinyl: My JoAnn told me that they no longer carry it on bolts.  I'm not sure if this is a nationwide thing or not, but thought I would mention it.  My JoAnn still had it in the 2-yard rolls in the notions section though and, according to their staffers, will continue to carry it this way.     

   

In other news, I will be BACK next week.  (Well, I guess I didn't really go anywhere, but I will be back to blogging.)