Category: tutorials

ROPE BASKET

For the last seven years, our family has hopped around twelve times.  Twelve.  We were moving every six months or so, and when your life is that transitional, you don’t exactly let yourself root in anywhere and make meaningful connections with people.  I was getting by on friendly smiles and small talk, essentially, for years.  […]

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ROPE MAKING

It’s been much too long since I’ve added a tutorial to the Yellow Spool blog!  This is one that I’ve been meaning to share for a long time.  Rope making.  It’s such a useful skill to have, whether you want to make rope for a project, or you need to make rope in an emergency, […]

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LEARNING NATIVITY

A nativity set is one of the fundamental Christmas decorations. Problem – most of them are fragile, and Lenna’s Inspector Gadget hands would manage to destroy a ceramic nativity no matter how high I put it. So I set out to find a way to make a simple wooden nativity, and it turned out better than I had even hoped!

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BANDANA DRESS

When I was pregnant with Lenna I had a little stash of random bandanas that I was just dying to make into tiny little dresses.  When I started to look for tutorials for bandana dresses, all I could find were patterns that used more than one bandana.  The problem was, none of my bandanas matched.  […]

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DIY SNAP SUIT

Every time I make/ buy a swimming suit for my babies, I add snap tape.  Why the baby bathing suit industry does not add snaps in standard is a mystery to me.  Have you ever tried to finagle a wet suit off of a squirmy baby to change their diaper?  Worst. Luckily, you can buy […]

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