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Hello Farmgirl Friends!
So are you wondering what fabric tape is? It is exactly as it sounds… fabric strips with double sided tape on the back! It is useful and fun for so many things and I always keep some on hand.
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Hello Farmgirl Friends!
So are you wondering what fabric tape is? It is exactly as it sounds… fabric strips with double sided tape on the back! It is useful and fun for so many things and I always keep some on hand.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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~ Mark Twain
is a certified farmgirl at heart. She’s happily married to her beach bum Yankee husband of 20 years. She went from career gal to being a creative homeschooling mom for two of her biggest blessings and hasn’t looked back since. Debbie left her lifelong home in the high desert of Northern Nevada 10 years ago and washed up on the shore of America’s hometown, Plymouth, MA, where she and her family are now firmly planted. They spend part of each summer in a tiny, off–grid beach cottage named “The Sea Horse.”
“I found a piece of my farmgirl heart when I discovered MaryJanesFarm. Suddenly, everything I loved just made more sense! I enjoy unwinding at the beach, writing, gardening, and turning yard-sale furniture into ‘Painted Ladies’ I’m passionate about living a creative life and encouraging others to ‘make each day their masterpiece.’”
Column contents © Deb Bosworth. All rights reserved.
Being a farmgirl is not
about where you live,
but how you live.
is a “MaryJane Farmgirl” who lives in a large metropolitan area. She is a lawyer who has worked in both criminal defense and prosecution. She has been a judge, a business woman and a stay-at-home mom. In addition to her law degree, she has a Masters of Theological Studies.
“Mustering up the courage to do the things you dream about,” she says, “is the essence of being a MaryJane Farmgirl.” Learning to live more organically and closer to nature is Rebekah’s current pursuit. She finds strength and encouragement through MaryJane’s writings, life, and products. And MaryJane’s Farmgirl Connection provides her a wealth of knowledge from true-blue farmgirls.
Column contents © Rebekah Teal. All rights reserved.
“Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away once in awhile to climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods, to wash your spirit clean.
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~ John Muir
an old-fashioned farmgirl with a pioneer spirit, lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As a “lifelong learner” in the “Live-Free-or-Die” state, she fiercely values self-reliance, independence, freedom, and fresh mountain air. Married to her childhood sweetheart of 40+ years (a few of them “uphill climbs”), she’s had plenty of time to reinvent herself. From museum curator, restaurant owner, homeschool mom/conference speaker, to post-and-beam house builder and entrepreneur, she’s also a multi-media artist, with an obsession for off-grid living and alternative housing. Cathi owns and operates a 32-room mountain lodge. Her specialty has evolved to include “hermit hospitality” at her rustic cabin in the mountains, where she offers weekend workshops of special interest to women.
“Mountains speak to my soul, and farming is an important part of my heritage. I want to pass on my love of these things to others through my writing. Living in the mountains has its own particular challenges, but I delight in turning them into opportunities from which we can all learn and grow.”
Column contents © Cathi Belcher. All rights reserved.
“Wherever you go, no matter the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
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~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
Dori Troutman is the daughter of second generation cattle ranchers in New Mexico. She grew up working and playing on the ranch that her grandparents homesteaded in 1928. That ranch, with the old adobe home, is still in the family today. Dori and her husband always yearned for a ranch of their own. That dream came true when they retired to the beautiful green rolling hills of Tennessee. Truly a cattleman’s paradise!
Dori loves all things farmgirl and actually has known no other life but that. She loves to cook, craft, garden, and help with any and all things on their cattle farm.
Column contents © Dori Troutman. All rights reserved.
Previous Ranch Farmgirl,
Oct 2009 – Nov 2013
Wyoming cattle rancher and outpost writer (rider), shares the “view from her saddle.” Shery is a leather and lace cowgirl-farmgirl who’s been horse-crazy all of her life. Her other interests include “junktiques,” arts and crafts, glamping, collecting antique china, and cultivating mirth.
describes herself as a goat charmer, chicken whisperer, bee maven, and farmers’ market baker renovating an 1864 farmhouse on an Ohio farm. With a degree in Design, Mary says small-town auctions and country road barn sales "always make my heart skip a beat thinking about what I could create or design out of what I’ve seen.”
Rooted in the countryside, she likes simple things and old ways … gardening, preserving the harvest, cooking, baking, and all things home. While you might find her selling baked goods from the farm’s milkhouse, teaching herself to play the fiddle, or sprucing up a vintage camper named Maizy, you will always find her in an apron!
Mary says, “I’m happiest with the simple country pleasures … an old farmhouse, too many animals, a crackling fire, books to read, and the sound of laughter … these make life just perfect.”
Column contents © Mary Murray. All rights reserved.
Farmgirl
is a condition
of the heart.
is a budding rural farmgirl living in Palmer, the agricultural seat of Alaska. Alex is a graduate student at Alaska Pacific University pursuing an M.S. in Outdoor and Environmental Education. She lives and works on the university’s 700 acre environmental education center, Spring Creek Farm. When Alex has time outside of school, she loves to rock climb, repurpose found objects, cross-country ski on the hay fields, travel, practice yoga, and cook with new-fangled ingredients.
Alex grew up near the Twin Cities and went to college in Madison, Wisconsin—both places where perfectly painted barns and rolling green farmland are just a short drive away. After college, she taught at a rural middle school in South Korea where she biked past verdant rice paddies and old women selling home-grown produce from sidewalk stoops. She was introduced to MaryJanesFarm after returning, and found in it what she’d been searching for—a group of incredible women living their lives in ways that benefit their families, their communities, and the greater environment. What an amazing group of farmgirls to be a part of!
Column contents © Alexandra Wilson. All rights reserved.
Previous Rural Farmgirl,
June 2010 – Jan 2012
Libbie’s a small town farmgirl who lives in the high-desert Sevier Valley of Central Utah on a 140-year-old farm with her husband and two darling little farmboys—as well as 30 ewes; 60 new little lambs; a handful of rams; a lovely milk cow, Evelynn; an old horse, Doc; two dogs; a bunch o’ chickens; and two kitties.
Previous Rural Farmgirl,
April 2009 – May 2010
René lives in Washington state’s wine country. She grew up in the dry-land wheat fields of E. Washington, where learning to drive the family truck and tractors, and “snipe hunting,” were rites of passage. She has dirt under her nails and in her veins. In true farmgirl fashion, there is no place on Earth she would rather be than on the farm.
Farmgirl spirit can take root anywhere—dirt or no dirt.
Suburban Farmgirl Nicole Christensen calls herself a “vintage enthusiast”. Born and raised in Texas, she has lived most of her life in the picturesque New England suburbs of Connecticut, just a stone’s throw from New York State. An Advanced Master Gardener, she has gardened since childhood, in several states and across numerous planting zones. In addition, she teaches knitting classes, loves to preserve, and raises backyard chickens.
Married over thirty years to her Danish-born sweetheart, Nicole has worked in various fields, been a world-traveler, an entrepreneur and a homemaker, but considers being mom to her now-adult daughter her greatest accomplishment. Loving all things creative, Nicole considers her life’s motto to be “Bloom where you are planted”.
Column contents © Nicole Christensen. All rights reserved.
Previous Suburban Farmgirl,
October 2009 – October 2010
Paula is a mom of four and a journalist who’s partial to writing about common sense and women’s interests. She’s lived in five great farm states (Michigan, Iowa, New York, Tennessee, and now North Carolina), though never on a farm. She’s nevertheless inordinately fond of heirloom tomatoes, fine stitching, early mornings, and making pies. And sock monkeys.
Very pretty, love those clothes pins!
I am going to try this on the top edge of clay flower pots!
Wow Dori, you have certainly inspired me! How about sticking a lovely piece to your dog, or if your cat wears one, collar. Might as well dress up fidos leash while you’re at it. Could work for the show ring on livestock halters, too.
How fun!!! I would use fabric tape on cards, bookmarks & care packages sent to my Navy grandson!!! You have some really great creative ideas here my friend!!’ As always 🙂
What a cute and easy idea. I would use it on a plain white shirt and change it out each time I wore it so I’d always have a different look.
How Cute and it looks like this tape will be as much fun to make as it will be to use it!!! It would be an interesting collage if you used the tape to hold done bits of lace and old photos etc… in a random method!!! Each collage would take on a different look depending on the fabric you choose to make the fabric tape with!
That is such a wonderful idea. I send a lot of packages and I think that would be so cute! I love a personal touch! I can think of many ways to use the fabric in my little. Intake caper , Mary Jane. Thanks for the opportunity!!
I would love to use them on my many clothespins. Yours look so attractive and I could make mine look that way too. Thanks for all your wonderful ideas.
I think this is the cutest idea. I have this giant clothes pin, the strips would be perfect for.
You could also put different edges on them and put them on doll skirts. like rick rack etc.
Thank you so much for sharing. I love this .
I would use the fabric tape to decorate the tops and bottoms of letters to my 88-year old Mom. She lives only 2 hours away but she LOVES receiving letters from me. I always include news clippings about quilting or other things she’s enjoys … as well as any recent photographs I have taken that she might like. The fabric tape would add an old-fashioned look to the letters that I know Mom would love. Great ideas here, Dori!
What a FANTASTIC idea! I am going to have fun with this. I also make homemade soaps and this will be a great way to dress up the packaging and kept closed!
What a fun idea! I think I’ll plan a crafting session with my grandkids and we can make up some fun tapes to wrap gifts in. They can each make several tape sets to bag up and take home for future use.
Thank you for your inspiration!
Bonnie, in Oregon
what a great idea! I love it. I would never had known this great craft if it wasn’t for your site. I am always looking for new ways to use up a lot of my fabric scraps. I would love to be more creative.
You are a true blessing to all of us who read your site.
winnie J.
This is a great idea to use up any left over fabric and also go through my wardrobe to see what clothes don’t fit anymore which have some as new fabric ,cut the garment material into strips and make some of those beautiful strips. Wilhelmina
I see some really cute bookmarks, especially if they match a pair of pajama pants! Cute idea. Thanks!
Super cute idea! Love it, great instructions.
I work with special needs children and would love to try a project using the fabric tape. I think the kids would be much inclined to create images or words with something colorful but easy.What a great idea!
Great idea, and simple enough for even kids to do. (With some help with the rotary cutter, of course). I think a strip added to a hang tag/price tag of my quilts for sale would be a perfect finishing touch. A strip across the laundering instruction might also add a nice touch and insure the label is saved. And for scrap booking…real fabric strips to replace washi tape…oh the ideas keep coming. Thank you so much for this inspiring post, as always you deliver!
What a great idea to use the smallest of fabric strips. I didn’t know about double sided duct tape. Thank you so much! Have a blessed day.
As a quilter, I am always looking for uses for the scraps I collect. Fabric tape is perfect! I would use fabric tape on the special cards I make for friends and family. In addition to embroidered and knitted/crocheted motifs, the addition of fabric tape would make the cards very special.
Beautiful! I think it would look beautiful to wrap around taper timer candles. Also, little girls could decorate flip flops!
Delicious! I love this idea! I don’t think I’ll ever use ordinary tape again! I’m thinking of starting an Etsy shop and this tape would be a great idea for some signature packaging. Thanks for the tutorial! ~joanne
I would use the tape with my Family Childcare children to make Mother’s Day gifts.
What a great idea! I like all of your suggestions for using this fun tape, but another idea that comes to mind is using it to decorate my clothespin basket. 🙂
That is such a great idea, I would use the tape on my old wooden spools of days gone by.
I have been trying to think of ways to use and decorate them.
You always have such great ideas.
I love getting your letters, they are always inspiring.
Peggy
This is a great idea and will be a new addition to scrap-booking that I do for my family genealogy scrapbook. I can add strips to my pages or use them to underline or border a quote or an explanation of a photo. I can also make bookmarks for my reading books. Thanks for the idea. Can’t wait to try it out. I get so much inspiration from MaryJane’s Farm bloggers and her magazine. Hope it never stops.
Oh, I also had another idea; for frayed or worn clothes that I hate to part with and love to wear, I could decorate them with this tape and cover up the worn and frayed parts, and just remove them before laundering. Save my clothes.
Amazing idea of fabric tape!!! And what fun to use all the scraps we have left over!! And so fun for grandkids to help!! I love to cook and give away as gifts. These beautiful strips could decorate homemade bread or cookies or anything. What a unique idea to make our items extra special with a new look. Thank you so much for this idea!!
So many ideas in my head…im cant wait to do cards i mail!!! Bookmarks..n cards for christmas the grandchildren and i can make special cards for family members
Fun! I know a couple of 8 year old grandgirls who will be excited to help with this cute project!
First of all……I love your blog and have been following since you were building your beautiful home. I think this cute tape would be a great way to seal up those college care packages that I plan on sending to my granddaughter when she heads off to college in the fall.
This is really a great idea. I might make some with my longer scraps of fabric to add to journal pages in place of the washi tape I use often! I will be checking out the tape isle the next shopping trip I make! Thanks for the clever share!
Super cool!!! Besides fabric crafting I do paper crafting and use paper tapes, why hadn’t I thought of fabric tape – duh. Well my mind is going wild now, going to Walmart today and get the tape and away I go. I just put some chicken wire in an old picture frame to hang ideas etc. above my sewing machine and now I have the clothespins to do and hang this idea and some fabric tape from it. Oh gee on this cold/WINDY/snow on the ground day, this makes everything look brighter. You are a true inspiration. God bless.
A picture frame
Your beautiful fabric tape “recipe” looks easy. I would use this tape on the back of farmgirl mail I send out. A cute way to decorate the mail.
Fabric tape would be great on a project box so you can quickly identify what’s in it. The color fabric will jump out at you better than writing on a label. Thanks for the tutorial. been waiting for your blog this month.
Love this idea. I am not an artist so I could use fabric tape on packages (saving money by buying white wrapping paper), cards, pots, etc. I also can use some shirts to cut up into strips. I am sure I will be sticking them on a lot of things. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you for that cute idea. I may just try it or maybe I’ll win your giveaway! Either way, I appreciate crafty people with imagination. Keep up the good work!
What a cute idea! I love your quick and easy projects. I am doing a Mother’s Day project with clay pots for my daughters and putting my grandkids’ pictures on the pots. I think I will used your fabric tape to accent the borders around the pictures. I am so excited! Thank you.
Joanne
I did not know about this craft. So many ideas now come to mind. Thank you for sharing this
what a clever idea! I make my own cards too so I loved that idea and would try that. I also like the long strips to use on wrapping gifts too. thanks for sharing that with us!
Great Idea!!! Thanks Dori!!
Wow I need some, and what a great way to use scraps, and also chic decorating idea.
I love this!! So many things come to mind. I would use it to weave a cover on a Journal, wrap around Mason Jars, wrap the hands of my garden tools, or decorate boxes being sent in the mail… and so many more ideas are brewing! Thanks for such a fun idea!! I can’t wait to show this to my granddaughter. THANK YOU!
I would use the fabric tape to trim my wallpaper.
Marilyn
I love the tea lights! What a great way to use up the smaller pieces of fabric in my stash. 🙂
What a charming craft idea! I use vintage clothes pins all over my house for a variety of things. They would look even cuter dressed up in these fabric tapes! Thanks for all of your terrific ideas!
What a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing. I will make some to send to my 4 year old granddaughter. She will love this.
Absolutely love this idea! This will be something to use at the Senior Center I volunteer at and a fun project for the Extension Homemaker Club to make and package for our yearly Country Store.
I would try dressing up a plain lamp shade with fabric tape!