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I've had a sad plastic cabinet in my sewing room, under my ironing board for several years now.  It was leaning so bad that I couldn't even get in the drawers without lots of trouble.

sad plastic cabinet unloaded

Several months ago, I found some brand new mesh baskets at Salvation Army.  It was only the baskets, no shelving unit to put the baskets in.  I looked online, and the company is no longer in business.  Well, hubby said he'd make me a cabinet to hold the baskets.  Here is the cabinet he made for me.

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I was asked to make some placemats for a friend.  She wanted something that looked like Spring/Flowers.  I'd seen something online years ago (can't remember where), and decided to do something similar.

I made 4 different blocks, using fabrics from the Pioneer Woman collection.

Then I cut each block into quarters, and stitched a quarter of each block into a center square block.

I then used some of the extra strips I'd cut to make side pieces.

placemats

I finished 8 of these placemat tops.  I have the center squares stitched to make another set of ...