Gorgeous Fabric Flower Roundup Tutorials free patterns

You all know I am obsessed with flowers.
Time to freshen up your flower collection with some of the top ten best tutorials.

Maize in Montana created an easy to understand tutorial on how to make this frayed fabric flower.

Boutique NutMeg Designs created a tutorial how to make a these a flower pattern to approx 3″x3″.

 The frayed flower card Ashely made is soooo cute.

 This is Molly Chicken’s  beautiful simple version.

 Wise Craft also has a flower tutorial  the purse is wonderful

 I hit the mother-load of fabric flower tutorials on The Domestic Diva. These are amazing!

 This is Pink Paper Peppermints rounded petal fabric flower

I love this one Sooooo pretty!

 Here is Sew Ritzy Titzy’s multi-petal flower tutorial.

 Julia created a tutorial on how to make her Fabric Flower brooch.

 This is  Grace Violet’s rosette embellished tank.

Please send me any photos of flowers you make.

The Little Garden

Well readers it has been 1 year and a few plants more .
The little garden has began to grow. Both trees are healthy and tall ,pansies are still blooming around the flowering pear and the wisteria is shooting all over the place.
Thew veggie garden has cucumbers where the tomatoes were last year and the plastic still protects the peppers.
Temps still dropping into the mid 30s at night in the middle of July.
The Little pear tree had no flowers this year.We had a late snow and froze all the flower buds.

This year we have snow peas,garlic for the marmots,tomatoes,lettuce, tons of strawberries,parsnips,peppers,an artichoke and cucumbers.

Coffee Grounds

How to use old coffee grounds

1. Soften and add shine to hair. When washing your hair, rub coffee grounds through wet hair and rinse.

For brown hair, coffee grounds add highlights.

2. Use coffee grounds as an exfoliant for skin. Pat on skin, massage over skin, rinse.
3. Add coffee grounds to your skin mask beauty routine.
4. Make homemade tattoos (temporary) with henna and coffee grounds.
5. Fertilize plants. Old coffee grounds are nutrient-rich for plants that thrive in an acidic soil.
6. Add used coffee grounds to the pots of indoor plants.
7. Work used coffee grounds into your garden soil before seed planting. After your plants start to emerge, work in coffee grounds near the plants. Used coffee grounds are said to repel snails and slugs as well as adding nutrients to the soil.
8. Increase your carrot and radish harvest by mixing seeds with dry coffee grounds before planting the seeds.
9. Use coffee grounds to repel ants.
10. Keep cats from using your garden as a kitty box by spreading used coffee grounds and orange peels throughout flower beds.
11. Deodorize a freezer. Place a bowl with used coffee grounds in the freezer to remove unwanted odors. Add a few drops of vanilla to coffee grounds.
12. Rub coffee grounds on hands to get rid of smells from chopping or cutting up pungent foods.
13. Make a used coffee grounds sachet. Fill old nylons or cheescloth with dry used coffee grounds. Hang in closets to absorb odors.
14. When you need an abrasive cleaner, coffee grounds can be used. Be careful of any surfaces that might stain.
15. Remove furniture scratches with wet coffee grounds.
16. Got a fireplace? Sprinkle wet coffee grounds over the ashes to keep from becoming engulfed in the plume of dust ashes create when you need to remove them.
17. Dye fabric, paper or Easter eggs. Simply add used coffee grounds to warm water and let sit a bit to create a dye.
18. After you give your dog a bath, rub coffee grounds through the coat of your pet. Coffee grounds are said to repel fleas.
19. Keep bait worms alive by mixing coffee grounds into the soil before you add worms.
20. Grow mushrooms on old coffee grounds.
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