Joyous Home’s community is now open. Any homemaker may participate by registering to join. To start off the community, we have a Playful Pumpkin Patch Quilt Challenge! See the details below. A quick rundown on the community: You have to register, or update your old password to login. We have one chat group, Joyful Homemaking Chat. Chat […]
Welcome! Free Quilt Pattern Download Mini-quilts are a good place to start for a beginner in quilting. The Farmhouse Floral mini-quilt download is a FREE digital quilt pattern for our newsletter subscribers. Color ideas for fabrics can be played with on the blank diagrams included in our patterns. All of the videos are FREE. There
Several years back, we did a webinar entitled 8 Hand Embroidery Stitches to Teach Your Girls. When I came across the audio and class in my files, I was so encouraged, yet again, on the goodness of teaching hand embroidery as a skill for our girls. 8 Hand Embroidery Stitches to Teach Your Girls At
I’m not great at making pretty paper cards. Paper crafting isn’t really a gift of mine. But I like pretty cards! I decided to try embroidering cards, and found it’s not too hard, and definitely pretty. You can’t hand embroider quite the same as you would on fabric, so here’s how to hand embroider on
While making dresses for our fall Seasons at Home tea, I decided to take pictures and explain how to sew in a zipper. It doesn’t matter how many times I put a zipper in, I get confused each time, regardless of the instructions on the zipper pack. I bet that’s why you’re here too! So
Here is a quick tutorial on how to do the backstitch in embroidery. In this easy fall embroidery project, we used cookie cutters to trace a shape and then embroidered the shape on a piece of linen. This is an easy project for those just beginning in embroidery. Use a variety of fall cookie cutter
I love this quick and easy applique` using my sewing machine, I had to share! I’ve been working on some little projects for some carry-around stitching storage (honestly, I’ve got thread and little bits of projects all over the place!), pincushions, and needle books, so I’ll share an applique` tutorial from these projects. This is
Soft frosted sugar cookies. Storytime and baby kisses. Coloring and playing outside. Lots of laundry and cooking comfort foods on cold days. Sneaking in sewing during the quiet times (which aren’t many!) Enjoying shopping days with grandma and aunts. Those are words that describe my days lately. So busy, but so sweet. It’s hard to
Mason Jar Lid Ornaments are another fun ornament we added this year to the tree. Each year we make at least one new ornament. My tree is filled with lovely memories and continues to fill. So fun to look at each special decoration my children made through the years. Mason Jar Lid Ornaments can be
Welcome beginning knitters! Today, I’m sharing my video on how to make this Easy Pattern Knit Dishcloth. There are no step-by-step pictures outside of the video. I did include the key and pattern instructions below the video. For a beginning knitter, I actually started with a doll pattern because it’s what I needed to do
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’ve always admired little dresses with tiny little pintucks on them. Those little, almost magical, raised lines that give such an elegant, old-fashioned and charming look to the garment. Do you love the look of pintucks also? If so, this post, Pintucks for Beginners, is exactly what you need to
Video: Watch how to make the Colonial Knot This embroidery tutorial was inspired by a technique called candlewicking. Candlewicking originates from the pioneer times of America, a time when women had very little access to varying fabrics and threads. Instead, they would use the twisted cotton wicks that were normally used for candle making. Candlewicking
