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    DIY Travel Pocket Pillow

    Hi everyone, it’s Cataleya (@happystitches_us on IG)! My newest project solves the “car-ride mess.” If you love sketching in the backseat like I do, you know how annoying it is when your sketchbook slides under the seat while you’re napping. I decided I needed a mobile art station that was soft, pretty, and worked perfectly!   MATERIALS: two 18 x 18 squares exterior (floral fabric) one 18 x18 square for the pocket (pink dotted fabric) 10″ piece of cotton webbing for the handle 1.5″ x 1″ strip of the floral…

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    Summer Tiered Dress for Kids

    Hello, it’s Duana with Duana Studio (@duana_m_chandler & @duanastudio) and we are in beach season, so I thought it would be great to create a cute Summer dress pattern for my daughter to wear. I love making clothes for my daughter! She especially loves dresses, and she can wear this at the beach or even to the park, or put a denim jacket over it for chillier days. But it is such a cute and easy summer dress that I drafted for her and created it into a pattern that…

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    DIY Spring Drawstring Bag

    Hello, it’s Duana with Duana Studio (@duana_m_chandler & @duanastudio)! We are in May, so I thought it would be great to do a cute springtime drawstring bag to wear out in the sun. You can wear this at the beach, to the park, or wherever your heart desires, because it’s such a cute bag to carry with you out on ANY spring/summer adventure 🙂 I chose to use a white corduroy fabric for the outside, and a floral cotton fabric for the inside. I think the floral fabric adds a…