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Pet Food Totes

By: Lynda October 3, 2026

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If you have been with me for awhile, you know I love totes. This post is about using pet food bags, those plastic ones, to make totes. I made one years ago, but there was no sewing involved. You can find that post here. If you aren’t interested in sewing these totes, just put in…

Sew a monster

By: Lynda June 27, 2026

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I’ve been spending so much time on my Substack blog writing about my mom’s diary and her favorite recipes that my art has been a bit neglected. However, I have worked on a couple bag designs from some fabric I was given, but nothing really excited me until I saw the Oddkin Studio website and…

Readers Favorite Posts 2025

By: Lynda May 20, 2026

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I love looking back to see what were the most favorite posts with readers over the past year. Usually I post them in December, but time slipped away this year. Here are the top six from 2025. Links to the posts are in the titles. For the fourth year, Making Cheesecloth Word Skins was the…

Focused on bookmarks

By: Lynda March 10, 2026March 11, 2026

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I’m trying to get my muse back using my fabric which is all over my studio. Maybe if I worked on some small stuff, I could get back into the groove. I decided bookmarks were a start. Here are the ones I’ve been working on. I’m experimenting with different ways to make them. All are…

Ice Dyeing vs Snow Dyeing

By: Lynda February 17, 2026

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I wanted to show you how these two techniques get different results. It’s been awhile since I had snow dyed, and it was fun to see how they look side by side. So here are the two shirts dyed with Celedon. On the left is the ice dyed shirt. On the right is the snow…

Snow Dyeing 2026

By: Lynda February 7, 2026

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It’s been so long since I snow dyed, but with all of the snow that we had recently, I just had to do it again. I have a formula for how much dye I need for ice dyeing, so for the first shirts I used that. If you would like that formula, check out this…

Ice Dyed Shirts

By: Lynda January 5, 2026

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We’re going on a vacation soon so I thought it would be nice to have some new shirts to take with me. I could have low immersion dyed them, or printed on them, but I wanted them ice dyed. If you are new to my blog, I created this dye technique back in 2011 and…

Vintage Quilt Ornaments

By: Lynda January 1, 2026

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Happy New Year!! I’ve been wanting to do something with Grandma’s quilts that are tattered – holes everywhere. I’ve seen a lot of neat accessories made with them, but haven’t gotten around to playing with them until right before Christmas when I made my angel ornament for Dave for our Christmas Day ornament tradition. Directions…

2025 Favorite Books

By: Lynda December 30, 2025

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Since I’ve been reading pretty much every morning with my cup of tea and Molly, I wanted to tell you about my favorite books that I’ve read this year, and how I’ll be documenting the new ones in 2026. I decided this year that I would not push myself through books. If I didn’t like…