- Coordinate your kitchen by sewing covers for any small appliances that have to remain on the counter. Make chair back covers, and stove and refrigerator handle covers from the same fabric. Use leftover fabric scraps to make pot holders. Decorate your tea towels by sewing a strip of the same fabric on both ends of the towel. Hot pads, coasters and place mats for the kitchen bar or dining table can be made by covering one or two pieces of cardboard with fabric.
- Sew covers for your wastebaskets in a fabric that matches the color scheme of the room. Small curtains for bathroom windows, tie backs or even valances are easily sewed. If your bath is small or doesn't have windows, hang a small curtain rod and set of curtains on a bare wall to give the illusion of an open window. Place an appealing art print behind the curtain. For the bedroom, sew simple dresser scarves to place under lamps or sharp-edged objects that might scratch the furniture. Matching curtain tie-backs and wastebasket covers can help coordinate the bedroom as well.
- Sew pillows in the shapes of cartoon characters for a child to play with. Use fabric scraps to make a large size patchwork floor pillow for smaller children to lounge on, or change the look of a den or living room by sewing simple pillow covers that can be changed quickly. Draft stoppers are quick and easy sewing projects that will save you money on heating costs by stopping heat from escaping under doorways.
- Potpourri shade pulls are easily made by wrapping potpourri in rounds of fabric and attaching them with ribbon to the window shade pull. Use a fabric that matches your bedspread or curtains to sew fiber fill-stuffed frames that can be attached the fronts of picture frames. Curtain tie backs that snap together with bows on their fronts enhance the look of any size window. Use fabric scraps from various discarded items of clothing to make a lap quilt; this quilt size is convenient to use when a full-size quilt would just be too much.
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