Easy Children's Rag Blanket Tutorial Today I want to show you a quick, easy and fun way to make a Rag Blanket that is a great couch quilt for kids! The great thing about making rag blankets...aside from their cuteness and how quickly they come together is this: As you sew the blanket top together you are sewing the blanket back together and it doesn't need to be quilted! You also don't need to bind these blankets. Sure you need to clip them but that can happen on the couch ... View the Post
Sunflower Pillow Pattern
After months of requests we finally have turned our Sunflower Pillow Tutorial into a PDF Pattern!!! The free tutorial, of course, is still available HERE at Simple Simon but now you also have the choice to purchase it as a complete PDF pattern. The pattern only costs $3.95 and can be purchased HERE in our shop. And to celebrate we have added a limited supply of our navy sunflower kits back into the shop! (You can find those kits HERE!) Happy Sunflower Season and Happy ... View the Post
How to Make an EASY Hanging Dish Towel
Today I am excited to show you how to make one of my kitchen essentials...an oven hanging dish towel. I use these all the time and they are super easy to make. All you need to put one of them together is: a dish towel, a hot pad, and.... a shank button. (There are three different buttons pictured here...all with shanks. Shanks are buttons with a "neck" on the back, usually centered on the back of the button with a hole in the middle of the neck that allows the thread to be passed ... View the Post
The Dorm Room Quilt PDF Pattern Release!
Today we are excited to release our newest quilt pattern....THE DORM ROOM QUILT! For awhile now we have wanted to design a quilt that mothers and grandmothers could make for their young adults as they head off to college or their first apartment...and finally we have one finished! (I still have the quilt my grandma gave to me when I went off to college and it is a treasured possession.) This quilt finishes to approximately 60" x 92" which is a great size to put on a twin ... View the Post
Simple Polar Fleece Blanket Embellishment
Today we have a simple polar fleece blanket embellishment that is perfect for a last minute Valentine's Day gift. ... View the Post
Easy Valentine Pillows Tutorial
Today we have some easy Valentine Pillow Tutorials for you...well...maybe more like a how-to's rather than tutorials...but either way they are easy and I really love them so let's get started. To make each of these pillows I followed the instructions from THIS POST about HOW TO MAKE A PILLOW COVER and then just made a few minor changes.... For my heart quilt I started with a 20" x 20" square of striped home dec weight fabric along with two 13" x 20" pieces of coordinating home dec ... View the Post