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May
3
In my earlier post about Craft Gossip’s Spring Fork and Talk Blogger’s Meetup, I forgot to tell you about the cute buttons one of the attendees brought along. Here’s mine, shown. Leslie of Leslie’s Art and Sew handed them out as everyone arrived, and we wore them on our lapels throughout the event. On behalf of all the Craft …
May
3
Join the team at Studio Calico to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day this Saturday May 5th. The design team has compiled challenges and of course there will be prizes! Click here for more information.
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May
3
Join Tami Taylor at Creative Passion Classes for a free online class: Got Glue? A Guide to Junk Journals, Smashbooks and Ephemera Diaries. The class will run from June 6th to 27th, and includes both written and video classes. Other content includes free printables. Click here for more information and to register.…
May
2
Add rustic charm and a bit of glamorous sparkle with Rustic Glam Votives! Simple seed pots transformed into glittery candle holders are perfect for favors or decor at bridal showers and weddings. Get the tutorial at my blog Serendipity Vintage Studio, and while you’re there leave a comment for your chance to win some amazing prizes during the May Arts…
Apr
30
We sewists/quilters know we are cool, but do button manufacturers? Not really. Sam of Hunter’s Design Studio decided to correct this injustice by creating this witty batch of buttons. My favorite is the one smack dab in the middle that says, The Ultimate Power Tool. Click HERE to learn more about these fun buttons.
Via The Bitchy Stitcher…
Apr
30
Megan Dougherty of The Bitchy Stitcher put some feelers out on her Facebook page to see if there is interest in a 2013 Quilter’s Shirtless Man & Spicy Burrito calendar. There is, and after several readers left favorable comments she issued a reminder,
Remember: photo must be in landscape orientation. Outdoors is best for lighting. And for the love of
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Apr
30
Veronica Armstrong shares her reasons why she thinks even amateur and hobby photographers should shoot in RAW format. She shows a few examples of how shooting in RAW has helped her to save some photos. Click here to read more.…
Apr
29
Kate Kretz‘s needle art is amazing. And I mean that literally. When I look at her work, my mouth falls open and I go into a kind of trance, enthralled by her concepts and captivated by her exquisite technique. You can see her art in person right now in Miami. Her news release says,
“This Sharp World…”, a solo
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Apr
29
Michelle Barnard gave us the heads-up about a group exhibit, TenPlus Textiles, at Stoke on Trent, UK, that runs through August. The group’s site says,
Ten Plus Textiles was formed in 1991 by ten textile artists from the North West who finished Part Two City and Guilds, taught by the renowned Joan Archer. They wanted to work together and promote
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Apr
29
The whole stitchy world fell in love with the goldwork beetle Arlene White created for the Fool’s Gold Crazy-Quilt Round Robin. So Arlene is going to teach how to make him! She has five online classes coming up–all fabulous–and this handsome guy is the subject of one of them. Go to Arlene’s blog post for links to all five classes…
Apr
29
Yea, Interweave Press! If all the recent online hoorah has given you copyright anxiety, Interweave has information you need. And it’s free! Check this message I received from Jaime Guthals of Interweave:
Here at Interweave we weren’t planning on releasing our new copyright for artists and crafters eBook until next month, but upon discovering that April 26 was World Intellectual
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Apr
29
If your life won’t let you take live classes or you don’t have the bucks to travel, online classes are the ideal solution. And one is coming up with Nancy Eha (The Beading Queen) that looks divine! It’s one of the online crazy-quilting classes now offered through Maureen’s Vintage Acqusitions, but you don’t have to be a crazy-quilter to enjoy …
Apr
29
Check out this rockin announcement from Helen Gibb‘s newsletter, Ribbon Snips:
Reknowned fabric artist Mary Jo Hiney is coming to Colorado to team up with Helen to teach at our annual Summer Workshop this June, and we can’t wait for you to meet her. Wahoo! We are so excited! Helen and Mary Jo will be team teaching a variety of
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Apr
28
Maureen Cracknell Handmade has not one but THREE fat quarter bundles to giveaway. They’re offered by Fat Quarter Shop and are from Valori Wells’ Cocoon line. There will be three winners, one for each colorway bundle - Butterfly, Caterpillar, and Moth. Go to Maureen Cracknell Handmade for the details and to enter. (Giveaway ends Monday morning, April 30, 2012.)…
Apr
27
Purple Onion stamps has just released the most adorable new line of images from designer Stacey Yacula called The Sweetest Day. With cute bunnies, a funky frog, a tweet bird and the cutest snail you’ve ever seen, these are truely ”awwww” worthy stamps! Click here to see all the images and stop by their blog for tons of wonderful samples!
-Heather…
Apr
26
Link parties are cropping up all over the net, so I thought I’d host one here. This one is limited to crochet – and to your original design(s). You don’t need to have a pattern available – although everyone will ask! The idea is for us to see all the wonderful crochet designs that are being created daily in the …
Apr
26
The Royal School of Needlework has just released a new catalog of classes available through December 2012. The site says it “includes new classes and, in response to the huge demand for our Introduction classes, additional dates.” Included are classes in San Francisco and Glasgow. Go to the booking page.…
Apr
26
Corinne of So September tries out Sticky Fabri-Solvy, a self-adhesive stabilizer you can run through your desktop printer. A super-easy way to transfer an embroidery design. Check her post to see how her experiment turned out.…
Apr
26
American Felt & Craft is celebrating the addition of 100 fans with its biggest felt sale ever. This makes me want to take out a bank loan–I want all the felt! Check it out now. The sale won’t last forever.…
Apr
26
Digistamps4Joy is under new ownership and they’re celebrating with a hop.
Here’s what Margy has to say: “The South African Digistamps4Joy company is under new management! We have a new blog, website, shop, and CDAC group! Come and see all the NEW and exciting digistamps in our store.
To celebrate our ‘new beginnings’ we are holding a BLOG HOP from 25th April to …
Apr
26
It sure looks like it since Sue of Quilt Notes named the quilt My Poopy Puppy. She explains it was in response to a *Quilting Arts Magazine reader challenge about pet peeves. Hers is dog owners not scooping up their dog’s poop in a public place we all must share, like a dog park. Go HERE to learn more…
Apr
26
This week on Write.Click.Scrapbook five team members share how they make Project Life work for them. Plus every day you get a free printable download! Click here to see more.…
Apr
26
Athena from The Stuff of Success shares a cost savings tip for purchasing 12×12 Cricut Mats. Can you guess what it is? Click here to get the details.…
Apr
25
Emma of DMC Threads blog is spending nearly a month in Bali, sharing embroidery and crafting skills with the children of Jodie O’Shea Orphanage. Follow her adventures through her blog posts. And thank you Emma, DMC, and all of the other awesome sponsors for sharing the stitchy magic.…
Apr
25
Gay of Sentimental Stitches has put together Embroider Me Collection 2–a set of 23 reproduction antique patterns for embroidered cloth dolls. She says, “They are presented in their antique form just as they were stamped on fabric and sold in kits during the early 1900s.” Go to her blog post to see her sweet collection of hand-stitched dolls and …