Dear Readers,
It’s National Sewing Month! To celebrate, AllFreeSewing.com is hosting a special blog series throughout the entire month. Check back daily for posts featuring our favorite projects, new sewing videos and tutorials, guest blogs from talented designers and more. We’re also giving away a HUGE sewing prize at the end of the month. You won’t believe how EASY it is to WIN!
Leave a comment on any of the blog posts with the headline “National Sewing Month”. Your comment will count as an entry into the giveaway. You are free to comment as often as once per blog post (for a total of 30 chances to win!). At the end of the month, we’ll pool all of the comments together and pick one lucky winner to win the mystery grand prize. And trust us; you want to win this one!
Whether you’re already a sewing enthusiast or new to the craft, our hope is that this September will encourage you to create wonderful sewn projects.
Happy National Sewing Month!
Here’s today’s post:
As the editor of AllFreeSewing.com, I look forward to rounding up the top projects at the end of each month. August was a great month for AllFreeSewing because with the summer coming to a close, we were able to celebrate the end of one season and the start of another. Personally, I love the transition of summer to fall and with so many great sewing projects and tutorials to choose from, there’s no shortage of things to make for either season.
We let our readers decide which projects are worthy of making the top projects list. Out of all the projects featured in August AllFreeSewing newsletters, these are the ones you’ve deemed the best. If you’re not subscribed to receive our newsletters, you’re missing out! You can subscribe here.
For a quick recap on the things you missed, check out a few of the top projects in August. If you’re one of the regulars, please take this opportunity to revisit your favorites – they could spark some new inspiration!
How to Make Mini Me Cloth Dolls
Personalize these fun dolls for friends and family! They make for fun and creative gifts or just a fun sewing project for you to work on.
Vintage Inspired Dinner Roll Holder
If you’re in the retro mood, make this dinner roll holder – perfect as a useable table decoration.
15 Quick Impressive Hostess Gifts
Headed to a dinner party or family gathering? Don’t show up empty handed. Make any of these easy hostess gifts you can sew right before the event.
Large Tote With Rounded Opening
Large enough to fit everything you need for a day at the beach or traveling, this tote bag is both useful and cute.
For the entire list, see the “Top Projects of August” collection.
What kinds of crafting projects did you make in August?
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I love the dinner roll holder! I am going to make one for my daughter, too!
The only project I completed in August was a cute little fox softy. I turned my son’s high waters into shorts and used the denim that I cut off of the pants.
Mmm looks very interesting. I will check all the projects out and perhaps make something. Thank you !
August was a month of patching and remaking my clothes over. Now it’s time to get a start on Christmas gifts and I see some projects here that would make great gifts.
I worked on burp cloths for baby gifts.
I cleaned and reorganized my sewing/guest room in August and did some mending.
I have made quilt blocks, embroidered, knitted, crocheted, hemmed pants, made more pincushions & the list goes on. I didn’t realize how much I had done!
August was mostly outdoor fun, but I did manage to put in a few stitches into my ongoing English Paper Pieced grandmother’s flower garden. I’ve been working on this for several years, taking it to meetings and while riding in the car with dh on long trips. One of these years I may even finish it!
“SEW” much inspiration!
I’m so glad I found you !!!
It seems like every month at my house is National Sewing Month,the prospect of getting free goodies to make it official makes it soooo much better! Thanks to your wonderful site I have dozens of projects patiently waiting their turn. Keep up the fabulous work so all of us can too!!
The only things I got to make in August were some pacifier straps as shower gifts for 2 different baby showers. They come in handy and the mom’s really appreciate them!
I haven’t gotten to do a lot of sewing except patching up jeans cuz I’ve been painting rooms in the house this month.
I am working on some purses,and yes from patterns that i have found here at my FAVORITE PLACE..FAVECRAFTS!!!! My hubby says I spend way to much time here,but I love this place!!!1 Thanks for all the hard work you guys do!!
It is still very hot here in the deep south, but I’m trying to finish up quilts for winter gifts.
I made a cute purse out of a mini skirt that I got at a thrift store.
August wasn’t necessarily a project month, more like a finish up project month. I tried to finish up lots of little tasks that pile up in order to make room for all the holiday sewing and crafting that I need to be starting. I’m always amazed by just how much space and time all those ” Quick little fixes” do take up!
Vintage sheet to maxi dress was my fav August post. Drawback was the sheet used was so perfect, that I have yet to find a sheet worthy of making this project!
That dinner roll holder is so cool.
I stitched two baby quilts – I’m “expecting” a new great niece, and great nephew this fall!
I started a crocheted farmer’s market bag for a good friend. The colors are blues, pinks and yellows and it is coming along nicely!
I look at what AllFreeSewing has to offer every time I get an email. Since I’ve been sewing for about 50 years, a lot of what I see isn’t “new” but I do find myself being reminded of things I hadn’t thought about and encouraged that a new generation is being introduced to all this diversity in projects. While so many of the projects are presented as “beginner” skills, every one of them can be executed to a higher skill level by applying some new technique — applique something on one side, create a “window” where you can insert a business card or a change of print fabric, replace boring off-the-bolt fabric with something you made yourself (stitching laces and bias strips together, assembling patchwork, “weaving” ribbons and fusing them over interfacing, doing something wild and wonderful courtesy of that stabilizer stuff that dissolves away with water).
Currently sewing bags ‘for Ladies who Lunch’…
Haven’t sewn anything yet but I did crochet 3 different sets of scarves, hats, and gloves as well as some baby items for family and friends.
What wonderful ways to use leftover or smaller pieces of fabrics! The dolls would be great for that!
Thanks for this!
I like the Quick, Impressive Hostess Gifts page. The wine tote will have to make an appearance in my future.