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Mar

7

Pieces Of Me Pendants Launches New Rings

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Lisa from Pieces Of Me Pendants is launching her new range of adjustable rings $5.95

and to launch her new range she is giving away 3 rings to CraftGossip readers.

For your chance to win simply visit her etsy store and select a ring design you would like

to win.

Enter by leaving a comment on this post with details about which ring you would…

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Tutorial: Update a plain tee by adding a bow

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Patterns & Tutorials

Cheri from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar uses a scrap of fabric, a button, and a length of crocheted trim to dress up a plain tee. I love the asymmetry of the bow on just one shoulder! Go to the tutorial.

[photo from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar]

Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, update, tee, t-shirt, refashion, bow, shoulder

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Tutorial: Button-top hanging dishtowels

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Patterns & Tutorials

Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary shares a tutorial for making this hanging dishtowel. It buttons around the handle of your stove so little hands can’t pull the towel off and take it places unknown. Get the how-to.

[photo from Sassy Sanctuary]

[via Someday Crafts]

Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, button, hanging, dishtowel, towel, kitchen

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Dressing Up Chocolate Eggs

in *All General Posts*, Easter, Edible Craft Recipes & Ideas, Holidays, candy

Dress up chocolate eggs with fondant decor with these fabulous ideas and how-tos from the cookie shop. Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head shown here, but click the link to find how-tos for bunnies and chicks, too.

Technorati Tags: chocolate, eggs, fondant, Easter, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, bunny, chick

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Who’s in the Kitchen?

in *All General Posts*

Cameo brooch

Originally uploaded by My Fimo Kitchen

It’s My Fimo Kitchen. I found this elegant brooch with an old-fashioned feel on the Craft Gossip Flickr group. To see the rest of the loely work from the artist, click on the picture, or click here to check out the blog!

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Felt Fower Video Tutorial

in *All General Posts*, Blogroll, Felting Artists, Felting Blog, Felting Patterns, Felting Tutorials, Fiber Artist, Fiber Trends, Free Felting Patterns, Indie designers, Up-cycling, eco-friendly felting

This is an easy to understand video tutorial if you are just getting into felting. I found it on Zazu Ta’s site who tells us: I have recently fallen head over heels in love with felt. Everything felt. Especially, felt flowers. I was browsing through You Tube and came across some really easy to follow, creative tutorials. Thought I’d share them…

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Miniature Wedding Cakes

in *All General Posts*, Edible Craft Recipes & Ideas, Product Reviews

Check out this tool for making precious little mini wedding cakes (or birthday cakes?). Find the cake pan HERE at Williams-Sonoma, found on the kitchn.

Technorati Tags: birthday cakes, wedding cake, miniature, cake pan

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Tutorial: Diamond wale corduroy throw pillow

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Patterns & Tutorials

Sew4Home shows how to use the stripes (wales) of a piece of corduroy as a design element by setting them at angles. The result is a luxurious textural diamond pattern on the front of your pillow. Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Sew4Home]

Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, diamond, corduroy, wale, angle, throw, pillow, toss

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How To: Lifelines

in 34

No, they’re not a life saving device. Well, wait a minute, maybe they are. If you’ve spent 64 years knitting a lace shawl and lose count and have to rip it all out, this very well may be what pushes you over the edge.

Marjorie Colletta, Bella Online’s Knitting Editor brings us a tutorial on how to use stitch and row…

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Lollipop Garden

in *All General Posts*, Edible Craft Recipes & Ideas, candy

I love this idea from Style Me Pretty: a garden of lollipops. Find the inspiration HERE.

Technorati Tags: party, favors, garden, lollipop

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Free cross-stitch charts

in 7813, Embroidery, Hand, Needlework general news, Patterns and charts, free

(1) Bonne fête Grand-mère from Arachné en son jardin
(2) La journée de la femme from Le blog de defidetoile
(3) Le fermier from bdcouture
(4) Monogram F from Stofnest
(5) Licorne from Le blog de kali
(6) Matriochka de Mars from Le blog de Vick
(7) Fleurs de printemps from les loisirs abbygaelle
(8) There’s no place like home from Stofnest
(9) Marzo from atmosfera di casa
(10) Little White Kitty from Happy Threads
(11) ABC 07 from Stofnest
(12) Fée from Le blog…

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Technique: Stamping in Beeswax

in *All General Posts*, Techniques, Tutorials, projects

image by Nathalie Kalbach and Stampington

Check out this totally cool video from Nathalie Kalbach on the Stampington and Co. site, she teaches you how to stamp into melted beeswax, how neat is that?? Click here to watch the video.

-Heather

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Free patterns: Hand embroidery

in Embroidery, Hand, Needlework general news, Patterns and charts, free

(1) Wisteria from Four Seasons Wallhanging from Maureen’s Vintage Acquisitions Blog
(2) Big and little housekeepers from doe-c-doe
(3) Thirteen motifs from Broderie d’Antan
(4) Antiquated mossy stone from Wild Olive
(5) Three sweet vintage patterns from Faster Kittykill! Blog! Blog!
(6) Eleven spring motifs from Broderie d’Antan
(7) Eleven more designs from Broderie d’Antan
(8) Bloomin’ Marvellous 5 from materialistic
(9) The virtue of forgiveness from Wild Olive
(10) Big and little…

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New Downloadable Patterns From Tilli Thomas!

in Free Patterns, Patterns

Lots and lots of free patterns. Sweaters and scarves, tanks and shawls, they’ve got it all, and, of course, they have the yarn to knit these with. Like one of my all time favorites,

Flurries, which is Austrailian Merino with beads. Oh my!

Free patterns and awesome yarn, I think I’ve died and gone to heaven!

The goodies are here: http://www.tillitomas.com/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=101

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Recycle a cd case into a classy gift card box

in *All General Posts*, 9, Craft Patterns & Tutorials, Recycled Tutorials

Over at the blog Chica and Jo there is a wonderful tutorial on how to recycle a cd holder into a gift card box. I do love the irony here in that the gift card they happen to feature is for i tunes, hehe.

[tags]how to make a cd case into a gift card box[/tag]

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Tutorial: Rhinestone Bracelet

in *All General Posts*

Obsessively Stitching has shared a fun tutorial on how to make rhinestone studded bracelets out of skull and crossbones shoelaces.

Looks like a fun project yo try with kids.

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Adorable Little Girls Sweater

in Free Patterns, Patterns, Product Reviews

Isn’t this adorable? I’m actually going to make this one, not just dream about it. Even have a recipient in mind!

The pattern is from Caron International, and free, here: http://www.caron.com/projects/ss/ss41_cable_toddler_po.html and is knit in Simply Soft yarn from Caron. The colors are yummy. Solids, variagateds, heathers, oh my! And I’ve used this yarn before, it really is so soft, just a…

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Giveaway: Digital Photo Organization Class

in 3253, 4039, Blogroll, Digital Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Classes, photography

It’s Giveaway Day on Write.Click.Scrapbook and it’s a doozy! Enter to win a place in Molly Newman’s class Get it Together. Keep it Together: Organizing Your Digital LifeStyle.”Get a handle on your digital photos, scanned images and digital scrapbooking supplies once and for all with this hands-on class.” Click here to go to giveaway.

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Tutorial: Reusable mesh produce bag from an old t-shirt

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Patterns & Tutorials

Pascale from //Between the Lines// shows how to make this reusable produce bag from an old t-shirt. It’s covered with little slits to mimic mesh and make the bag stretchy. T-shirt knit is not only soft but it also doesn’t fray, which makes for a quick, easy, and practical bag. Get the how-to.

[photo from //Between the Lines//]

Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, reusable,…

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Tutorial: Pincushions from plastic bottle and jar lids

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Patterns & Tutorials

Karen from Sew Many Ways shows how to make a pincushion ring out of a plastic bottlecap. Brilliant! She also shows how to make a slightly larger pincushion from a plastic jar lid that will velcro to the front of your sewing machine. Double brilliant! Go to the tutorial.

[photos from Sew Many Ways]

Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, pincushion, pin, cushion, bottlecap, plastic,…

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Tutorial: Fold-up playmat with zippered toy pocket

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Patterns & Tutorials

A Little Great shows how to make a fabric playmat for toy dinosaurs, action figures, or any other small toys that seem to multiply around the house. When you’re done playing, just put the little toys into the zippered pocket and fold up the mat for easy storage. Go to the tutorial.

[photo from A Little Great]

[via seven-thirty-three]

Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, play,…

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Thrifty Thursday at Designer Digitals

in 4039, Digital Scrapbooking, Online Stores, Scrapbook Deals

Today only, the template shown above by Katie Pertiet is only $0.99, instead of $2.99. Plus get 30% off on over 300 items! Click here to go to store.

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Video tutorial: How to create a ruffle

in *All General Posts*, Sewing Techniques

Chica and Jo continue their Sewing 101 video tutorial series with a video showing how to make a basic ruffle. If you’ve never made a ruffle before, you’ll be happy to know that this is actually a fairly easy technique. Once you master it, you’ll be adding ruffles to everything around you. Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Chica and Jo]

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Shop: Studio Mo Carved Stamps

in Shops

image by Studio Mo

And who doesn’t love Etsy?? This cool hand carved stamp is from Studio Mo on Etsy, she also has lots of other cool carved stamps, you can see them all by clicking here and checking out her shop.

-Heather