Category Archives: Tutorial

Improvisational Heart Block – A Tutorial

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.” Blaine Pascal My scrap tower is approaching avalanche levels.  And Valentine’s Day is coming up, so I worked up an improvisational heart block. Assuming you want a heart made in pink or … Continue reading →

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Scarfy Goodness

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

 

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Crepe Paper Poppy Flower – A Tutorial

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

We made lots of crepe paper flowers (the tutorial for which is here) for a fiesta some months ago, and then along came another fiesta party and our crepe paper flower expertise was requisitioned again. We were able to recycle … Continue reading →

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Improv Pumpkin Block – A Tutorial

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

It’s pumpkin time! I like pumpkins. I like the way they look, I like them as pie, I like them in soup and I like the smell of them. I like that I can have them as sophisticated centerpieces and … Continue reading →

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Crepe Paper Flowers – A Tutorial

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

We’re making these for a Cinco De Mayo party, and we’re making lots.  I found other tutorials on the web that show how to make these things, but having proto-typed, noodled, and experimented, I’ve come up with revised instructions that … Continue reading →

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Bao 豆沙包- A Recipe/Tutorial

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

Yesterday we made the bean paste. Today we are making Bean Paste Bao. There are lots of other things for which one can use bean paste – Rice cake filling, Eight Treasure Pudding filling, a filling for a crepe….This way … Continue reading →

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Red Bean Paste 紅豆沙- A Recipe

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

My mom came into town.  ’Some of this, some of that, mix until right’ recipes can be hard to follow, and I’m easily confused with things that are multi step processes. So with that in mind, we’ve been working on … Continue reading →

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Sandwich Bags – A Tutorial

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

I’ve been cringing about buying plastic sandwich bags. It seems contradictory to my environmental diligence about plastic grocery bags – I’ve been using reusable grocery bags for years – to be buying and throwing out plastic ziploc bags on a … Continue reading →

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Scrap Bowling – A Tutorial

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

I don’t know about you, but I have a lot little scraps and things that get generated in the process of sewing things.  Little triangles of fabric that need to be clipped off.  Thread tangles. Lint balls.  Other things I … Continue reading →

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