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Tutorial: Attach A Shoulder Strap To Your Bag Project
Lazies, Let’s take a close look at how to attach a shoulder strap to a bag project and take note of the things to consider. Once again, we are working with the Miranda Day Bag from our previous blog...
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How To: Pressing for Professional Results on Any Bag
Lazies, Look at what a difference perfect final pressing makes on this Claire Handbag in the before and after pictures below. Not only does Claire stand up even nicer, but we’ve defined her shape and...
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Tutorial: Choosing Fabrics to Accent a Bag Design
Lazies, When looking for fabrics to dress my bag designs, I focus on fabrics that will work together as well as compliment the design features of the bag. Sometimes I draw fabrics together from all...
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Free Tutorial: Add a Water Bottle Pocket to Your Favorite Bag
Lazies, On these horribly hot days of summer, I make sure I tuck a bottle of water in my purse when I head out the door. I didn’t used to be like this. I think it started after a trip to Las Vegas nine...
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Tutorial: Add A Patchwork Feature To Your Next Bag
Lazies, as you’ve probably noticed, my bag designs do not include piecework such as quilt blocks or applique. That’s intentional on my part. As I have found myself saying, I don’t dictate detail. So...
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Nancy Zieman Tablet Keeper: Paper Pad Keeper With Pen Holder
Lazies, Thanks for joining me on my stop of Nancy Zieman’s Tablet Keeper blog tour. If you’re new here, subscribe to our blog feed to keep up with my Lazy antics. Nancy’s new Tablet Keeper template...
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Tutorial: ‘Wrap & Fold’ Technique For Perfect Handles Every Time
Lazy Girl Designs ‘Candice’, shown with perfect handles made the Wrap and Fold way. (LGD130) Lazies, Making perfect handles for your next bag creation is easier to achieve than you might think with...
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Cheat Your Way to Yarny Goodness by Mixing Crafty Passions
Mock felted Chloe Handbag, Lazy Girl Designs #LGD120 Lazies, One of my all time favorite creations is this gorgeous mock-felted Chloe Handbag. Not only do I love the limey greens and earthy undertones...
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Tutorial: Add Purse Feet to Your Next Bag Creation
Lazies, Adding purse feet is a simple way to add a professional finish to your next bag creation. I recently showed purse feet on my Hobo Tote for Nancy Zieman’s blog tour. And I used them on Mom’s...
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Tutorial: Make a Tie Mask From a Man’s Silk Tie
Lazies, Here’s an easy tutorial for turning a silk tie into a comfy and beautiful eye mask, or more appropriately, a Tie Mask. I’ll show you how to make a mask that is perfectly contoured to your face...
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Technique: How to Steal a Bigger Pocket
Lazies, Some times, little pockets on our projects are barely useful at best. They can be difficult to access, hold very little and feel like a waste. Gathering and pleating are the usual techniques...
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Easy Double Mitered Corners
Lazies, I just returned from Quilt Market in Houston and one of my most popular demo’s was showing how to do a double miter. Actually, it’s a double fold, double miter. The big boy of mitering. I must...
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Tutorial: Bendy Bits, A Bendy Bonus Project
Lazies, If you’ve been making Bendy Bags (LGD134) like I have, you have some leftover bits waiting for love. Since Bendy’s release in February, Lazies have been posting (or emailing) how they are using...
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Giveaway & Tutorial: Fussy Cut A Border Print
Lazies, Border prints are a special opportunity in bag construction. A border print in quilting cottons is really just an elaborate stripe, often times with some calm background fabric showing between...
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Dress Up Your Bag With Easy Ribbon Embellishment
Lazies, Becca Bags is a perfect canvas for embellishment due to her clean simple design lines and construction. Here I’ve combined a beautiful ribbon designed by Sue Spargo for Renaissance Ribbons,...
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New Craftsy Class Giveaway!
Lazies, Get ready to join me for round 2 at Craftsy! My second class will launch soon. To enter the giveaway to win free enrollment in my class, follow the link at the bottom of this post. Here are the...
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New Class, Giveaway: Zippers The One-Zip Way!
Lazies, It’s here! Please join me in my Craftsy class ‘Zippered Bags With A Twist: The One-Zip Way’. Use this link to enroll in either of my two Craftsy classes by June 14, 2016 to save 50% and you’ll...
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Zip Through 3 Cute Projects With Me!
Lazies, Ready to make your bags and accessories more fun and more functional? Join me for my online Craftsy class Zippered Bags With a Twist: The One–Zip Way. You’ll learn how to use my one–zip method...
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The Slickest Way To Make Templates
Lazies, When you hear the word ‘template’ does it make you want to run screaming? I get it. I feel that way. Well, I have an option to share and I hope you like it because my four new patterns come...
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The Easy Way to Sew a Button On and Giveaway
Lazies, Sew, with the arrival of our four new Stiff Stuff Crafts patterns, let me share my Lazy buttony ways for attaching buttons by machine. I can already tell you that this is not in the category of...
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