Cinderella Sews

Make this adorable doll or hamster sized tent from soft wool felt with my free pattern PDF download and practice your hand stitching! A fun sewing project for kids, teens, and adults!
A few months ago, my craft room hamster, Gus Gus, decided that his 2-story condo wasn't quite big enough and was trying to chew his way into a hammy heist! Thankfully, I already had plans to expand his home in the works and he was upgraded to a 5,000 ㎠ hamster haven. With this new space, he received some new toys and hidey-holes, one of which was a small wool felt tent.
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A great little tutorial to practice blanket stitches, this round retreat is also fitting for Miss Marie Mouse! She is enjoying her tent …

Recently I have been utterly devoured by the hexie bug. Serenaded by the EPP siren. Stolen from the land of tiny doll making and pouch profusery by the slow stitchery that is the mischievous quilting fairy. 

Joining in some English paper-piecing parties this late spring has cleared my creative palette, and I'm so excited to finish this quilted mug rug tutorial with you! This is a 3-part series involving learning beginner English paper-piecing techniques. You can find part one here and part two here.

With the dawn of summer's warm temperatures and children's loosened schedules, my preoccupation has been containing the mess of teaching a 3 and 5 year old to bake, garden, light candles, and other life lessons.

The call of motherhood has torn me away from my happy sewing place, but just as the quilting siren has given me creative rest, so too the end of the school year is giving me time with my oldest before he is a full-time kindergartner this coming fall.

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Welcome to the second installment of my hexie mug rug tutorial! If you’re new to quilting or English paper piecing this is a great tutorial for you. You can find the first part of the tutorial on “How to Make Hexies” here. Otherwise, let’s get down to the tutorial!
Again, this will be a video tutorial. You’ll need 7 Hexies from the last tutorial, hand quilting thread or embroidery floss, and embroidery needles.
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You can find the tutorial for making the little tin sewing kit here, the pattern for making your own Cinderella Satchel here, and magnetic needle minders here.
As I said in my last tutorial, I have a few places I like getting fabric. For this tutorial, I’m using some lovelyLittle Red…

If you follow any other sewing blogs or have been stalking the sewing community of Instagram, you may have seen some adorable designs made from hexagonal tiles of fabric. These are known as hexies in the quilting word and they are absolutely addictive to make! 

 I’ve been working on my first ever hexie project featuring 4 hexie “flowers” to go in the corners of a mini quilt, centering around my Cinderella Glass Slipper Embroidery Pattern. They have been sew fun to make—especially while joining the #sipteaandepp party on Insta! 



For those who don’t know “epp” stands for “English paper piecing.” This quilting technique involves cutting and sewing blocks and tiles of fabric around small paper (or more modernly, acrylic) tiles to create exact edges in quilting together shaped designs. 

It’s a fun technique and very relaxing, since it’s repetitive, small, and can be taken anywhere (I’m going to plug right here, that my Cinderella Satchels are perfect for carrying a small sewing kit, precut fa…