Lookie what Disney from Ruffles and Stuff made! Would you believe it started out as a frumpy corduroy jumper? Now I’m adding frumpy corduroy jumpers to my list of things to search for at thrift stores. See more photos and … Read More...
Tutorial: Little Red Riding Hood finger puppet
Care from Obsessively Stitching continues her series of finger puppet tutorials with this tutorial and pattern for making Little Red Riding Hood. Get the how-to and the pattern.
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…Tutorial: Little Red Riding Hood finger puppet
Care from Obsessively Stitching continues her series of finger puppet tutorials with this tutorial and pattern for making Little Red Riding Hood. Get the how-to and the pattern.
[photo from Obsessively Stitching]
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Shrinky Dink Anyone?
Think back on the fun projects you might have done as a kid, before you felt the need for fancy materials and when the possibility of something shrinking in the oven was totally exciting. I remember lots of Smurf Shrinky…
Chainmaille Tutorial
Ok, so I admit that this isn’t a usual topic for this blog, nor a usual way of making chainmaille, but I think it has a lot of possibilities for those of you who like to recycle or use out…
Halloween Party Food
Halloween Party Food
Our Best Bites has a great collection of clever Halloween party foods HERE. Their roundup–including recipes and how-tos–covers appetizers, snacks, desserts and more, and all are easy to make. My favorites: Oreo spiders, witch wands, and mummy dogs.
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Paradise City Arts Festival
Columbus Day Weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the award-winning Paradise City Arts Festival, the most exciting, beautiful and wide-ranging show of juried American craft, art and sculpture in New England.
With 260 extraordinary exhibitors, fabulous food from area chefs, a…
Cookie Costumes
Before they go away forever…. I’ll get in as many posts as I can from Cookie Magazine. As cookies take up a huge part of my life, of course I fell in love with this genius idea from Clare Crespo…
Halloween Cookie Costumes
Before they go away forever…. I’ll get in as many posts as I can from Cookie Magazine. As cookies take up a huge part of my life, of course I fell in love with this genius idea from Clare … Read More...
Free chart: Multilingual Christmas heart
Le blog de Lisalotte shares a cross-stitch chart for a Christmas heart with interchangeable greetings in a variety of languages. Lovely! Get the charts from the blog post.
Free chart: Multilingual Christmas heart
Le blog de Lisalotte shares a cross-stitch chart for a Christmas heart with interchangeable greetings in a variety of languages. Lovely! Get the charts from the blog post.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out on Etsy
Free pattern: Christmas tree applique
Kimara of Wee Folk Art shares her original pattern for a Christmas tree felt-applique block. Get the pattern.
Free pattern: Christmas tree applique
Kimara of Wee Folk Art shares her original pattern for a Christmas tree felt-applique block. Get the pattern.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out on Etsy
Free clip art from Tricia-Rennea
Tricia-Rennea’s Mad Candy clip art is free for your personal use, and wouldn’t it make an excellent pattern for Halloween embroidery! Go to Tricia’s blog to download the art.
Enter HEN’s online exhibition
The Hand Embroidery Network invites you to enter its second online exhibition, Winter Wonderland. There is no entry fee for members; nonmembers may enter for just GBP 5.00. Entries will be divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced categories, and a prize…
Tutorial: Backstitched spider web
The stitch of the week at Rittenhouse Needlepoint is backstitched spider web or ridged spider web. See the tute.
Shop and Freebies: Sunshine Digital Stamps
image by Sunshine Stamps
Sunshine Digital Stamps offers fun digital stamp images and has a few freebies to offer as well, click here to visit their freebie page.
-Heather
New format and prices at Wee Wonderfuls
Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls has converted her hand-embroidery designs to PDF and is selling them at reduced prices. Yeaaaaaaa!! Get the details and links from her blog post.
Giveaway: Betz White workshop!
Betz White is giving away a free spot in her online workshop, Felt & Stitch Holiday. Fabulous! Go to her blog post to enter before 11:59 (Eastern USA time) on October 8. The winner will be announced October 9.