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Feb
8
As CraftGossip’s head editor and co-founder AND as a Work-At-Home mum, finding time to work on CraftGossip & Craftbits is very hard limited.
So when I find myself spending endless hours reading through our social media networks like Facebook & Twitter I have to justify my addiction time.
So I am inviting all our readers to come along and follow me …
Feb
2
Check out this amazing offer for CraftGossip readers from Black Dog:
Tapestry: A Woven Narrative is a review of contemporary tapestry design, discussing the progression from early designs to tapestry production today. The book investigates the current tapestry scene, in which weavers and artists across the globe have begun appropriating the medium to present their work and ideas in a
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Jan
26
Our sister site, Craftbits.com, has just published their Valentine Card themed newsletter, and it is chock full of great handmade card ideas. It is published in full below.
Handmade Valentines Day Cards
This Newsletter is filled with handmade Valentines Day Paper Card ideas.
9 card ideas
- Beating Hearts Card - Very simple
- Card Making – I Heart U - I
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Jan
16
A big congrats to Julie Shearer, she’s the winner of the Savvy stamps giveaway!! Enjoy your new stamps Julie!
-Heather…
Jan
13
You still have through Sunday to enter to win five new Valentine stamps from Savvy. Click here to go to the orginal post for info on entering.
-Heather…
Jan
11
I got some exciting mail from Carmen, a representative from OLFA, right before the holidays hit. Inside were these OLFA 5-inch Precision Appliqué Scissors shown here. She asked me to try them out and share what I thought about this new product on Quilting at Craft Gossip. I was only too happy to oblige. Then I put them …
Jan
9
Jenny at JB Cross Stitch www.jbcrossstitch.com says, “Thank you for all of the lovely comments we have received from your readers who downloaded our free charts. We would like to offer your readers an exclusive 20% off all of our products. Just enter the code “craftgossip20″ in the cart before checkout to receive the discount.” …
Jan
9
I am truly honored to be a guest today on American Patchwork and Quilting Radio. I’ll be chatting with host and superstar quilter Pat Sloan. If you’ve been curious about my personal quilting journey (since I mostly talk about yours) don’t miss my interview/live Podcast. Showtime is 4 p.m. ET. If you cannot join right then (you’re at …
Jan
5
I did not know that the author of the Mary Poppins book series was born only about 255 kms (161 miles) from where I sit today (Brisbane, Australia), in a sleepy old two called Maryborough (The name of the town probably has nothing to do with the name of the character that the author created).
Yes, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious indeed! P. L. …
Jan
4
Thanks to all our editors and loyal CraftGossip readers, 2011 was again a very big year for us. We are grateful to everyone for letting us find the best in DIY and Craft, and we hope to continue to do so for many more years to come.
Here, in reverse order, are the top 10 most popular posts for 2011 …
Dec
20
But there can only be one winner of the IZZE Holiday Crafting Challenge!
Before we reveal the winner, thanks to IZZE for sponsoring this competition. Next, thanks to all the contestants for all the wonderful creations! And finally, thanks to over 1000 people who voted. Without further adieu, the winner is…
Congratulations Leanne! This was a true IZZE inspired …
Dec
16
Maoli entrepreneur Kalani is a December baby and he gets to celebrate the Winter Solstice, Christmas and Three Kings Day. Lucky kid. But he’s also a giving soul and wants you to have 50 % off the entire range of Maoli’s Awesome Winter Lip Balms he prepared and packaged just for you. To be one of the lucky 50 Craftgossip…
Dec
15
Yes, we know. And we are working to fix it.
Links within the posts should still work.
Thank you for your patience.…
Dec
13
The winner of my Second Giveaway of December, 2011 and this wonderful book is:
Robyn R. who was chosen at random from all entries. Her entry was this one:
http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/
What a treasure trove!
Robyn’s entry was a blog with which I was already familiar – but there were many entries mentioning blogs that were new to me. …
Dec
12
We are so excited to partner with IZZE Sparkling Juice to bring you the IZZE Holiday Crafting Challenge!
This holiday season, IZZE gave a select group of crafters a challenge. IZZE sent them all a surprise box full of the SAME goodies and challenged them with creating a unique holiday craft, using ONLY the contents of the box. …
Dec
9
Can you imagine it? No you can’t? Let’s try and see what will happen if there was no smartphone.
No smartphone means no wake up alarm. No wake up alarm means no way to get the kids to school on time.
Then, no way to know what is planned in the day. With friendly reminders, and detailed itinerary planning, the smartphone schedules …
Dec
7
The winner of this useful and handy book is Dina who posted this:
i am a very new crocheter so my favorite book is still: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crochet.
It is making it easy to learn new stitches and of course blogland has added a whole new vision of what crochet can be. Loving it.
Dina, please email me with …
Dec
1
This motif really grabbed me! This is the winning motif and the winner of the book is Diane!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39648301@N02/4452880024/in/photostream/
I encourage everyone to take a look at all the entries for this Giveaway. There were designs I had never seen before, including this winning motif. Plus, I was pleased to see some of my favorites like the Wool-Eater Blanket chosen …
Nov
29
One of the things I like best about crochet is how flexible it is. First, I found and posted the beautiful Finnish shawl. Then a friendly reader, Christina, translated the pattern for us (see Comments Section of the link above). Then Wanda emailed me with a picture of how she interpreted the pattern to create a lovely and unique …
Nov
23
Actually, there are two secrets. But first, the basic details.
Go to http://silhouetteamerica.com/shop.aspx on midnight 25th Nov 12:01 MST, and use the promo code BLACK to get 30% off any purchase (excluding CAMEO, download and gift cards).
You can also get the shapes for only 50 cents each! There are over 19000 designs to choose from!
The sale starts …
Nov
23
á bbi is the hottest new line of beauty products on the market right now! To get the Craftgossip exclusive discount code that entitles you to a whopping 40% off your order, available till 15th December click HERE there is a giveaway to so be sure to check it out! mmmmmm Tahitian Vanilla!!!!!!!!!…
Nov
21
I recently got the chance to play with a brand new book from Klutz called Stamp Art. And when I say play, I mean it, I had a blast with these stamps! Stamp Art comes with 64 clear stamps, a clear block, 3 double-sided colored pencils, a black ink pad and a really fun book with loads of ideas and places …
Nov
17
Editors Note: We would like to again welcome Matt Lowe who has kindly written this guest post about the Fair Use of text and pictures for bloggers writing about other artists creations (very relevant to CraftGossip!). A few weeks ago, he wrote about differences between trademark and copyright.
Matt is an in house counsel in Colorado and is the …
Nov
13
Broken Blocks Scarf (Free Pattern For Personal Use Only)
THIS PATTERN HAS NOT BEEN TESTED AND IS PROBABLY NOT FOR A BEGINNER
2 Skeins Sheep(ish) Yarn – worsted weight yarn Magenta(ish) is Color A; Teal(ish) is Color B
Thanks to Cay for pointing out that I have not included finished dimensions! My scarf is 40 inches long by 3 inches …
Nov
10
We (my 2 and 4 year old kids) just had the pleasure of playing with WikiStix One of a kind Creatables . What are they? Literally sticks that stick. You can bend them, shape them, stick them to paper, stick them to themselves, stick them to anything to create a stickable creation.
We tested played with 2 items The Activity …