This is nice.  The tutorial (found here) was easy to follow, with loads of good photos.  I only have two not glowing things to say about it: Read it VERY VERY closely.  If you gloss over this one, you will miss important steps which will make your life a PITA.  However, if you do follow the instructions accurately, you will end up with a nice, semi sturdy, very professional looking fabric basket.  Which leads me to my other not glowing comment.  If, like me, you have difficulty visualizing size based off of measurements, this thing is SMALL.  Once finished, it easily fits in the palm of my hand, which is fine, but not necessarily what I had in mind when I began working on it. However, all the wonderful (albeit diminutive) compliments can definitely be applied to this project: cute, adorable, sweet.  Even easy!  This would be adorable for a young girls easter basket, maybe with longer handles.

This is another awesome tutorial.  Again, great pics, no surprises.  I did have some modifications for mine.  Since I was using heavy denim for my outside fabric, I did not feel the need to interface (and with the finished size, there is plenty of body, so I was correct in that assumption.  This is not always the case.) and I had no canvas webbing, so I simply made my handle out of a scrap of denim, 4″x11″, folded like bias tape and stitched on both edges.  I really liked the way this turned out.  The size is good for holding gifts, and it is practical in and of itself.  The one in the photo is for my niece, and I plan on making another for her brother (same denim, with dragony-dinosaurs and blue or green interior), as well as both my kids, and filling with small goodies (hairbands for the girls, books, legos, something small for Boogie).  I also plan on using some linen (and heavy interfacing) and a variety of my lovely Japanese fabrics (especially the navy colored ones) and making a bunch of them.  Then I want to screw little hooks up and down the side of one of my shelving units to hang them from.  They are a good size for holding small books, patterns, individual handwork projects, and the general flotsam and jetsam of my workroom.

Not a tutorial, although one will be involved in the future:

Can you believe these were found in a thrift store in HOUSTON?!?!? Those would be four 100% wool sweater in truly yummy colors (much better than the crappy cameraphone can show) and one gray wool shawl. People actually bought these and WORE them. In Houston. Gods, I hope they were bought for a ski trip or something. Wool . . . in Houston. It makes me itch just thinking about it. Ahhh, but the felting and felty goodness that await these specimens . . . bwahahahaha! (No, I have no actual plan, yet, but it will be cool. Oh, yes. It will.)

Oh, and because the last few days of the Sew, Mama, Sew blog haven’t thrilled me as much as the first few, here are some goodies I want to keep track of from whip up:

1. (okay, I was going to post a tutorial for rolled fabric roses, but it has this annoying automatic background music, and I hate that stuff so much I refuse to link to it)
2. Fabric Care Symbols Explained – because the thought of a T-shirt that says “Normal” in laundry code makes me giggle. A lot.
3. Covered Tape Measure Tutorial – I did one, but it looks horrible. I would like one that doesn’t.
4. Printable Valuable Document Envelope
5. Free embroidery patterns – Vintage-y
6. Bandana Pants – look, ma, no hemming!