Jennifer Casa from J Casa Handmade designed this kids’ wall tote, and they sold like hotcakes from her Etsy shop. Now she’s offering a free pattern so you can make your own. Get the pattern.
[via Crafty Crow]
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by Anne Weaver
Jennifer Casa from J Casa Handmade designed this kids’ wall tote, and they sold like hotcakes from her Etsy shop. Now she’s offering a free pattern so you can make your own. Get the pattern.
[via Crafty Crow]
I love this soldered stained glass pendant from Almondtree Designs. The elegant curves of the wire and the shiny soldering around the edges of the graceful curve of the glass.
by Terrye
How to Enter:
Create a project using only materials supplied by “Phat” shops. Your tools (knitting needles/hooks/wheels/felting needles) may be of mass commercial origin. The point of the competition is to explore the Indie Phat Shops. You may do searches … Read More...
by Anne Weaver
Revoluzzza offers a tutorial for making this monster stuffie. He’s so cute I could eat him up! Instead, I think I’ll just sew a little guy just like him. Get the tutorial and make one for yourself.
[via mmmcrafts]
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If there’s one thing that doesn’t go out of style it’s stained glass window sun catchers. Don’t you agree? This minimalist rendition of cherries is just sweet and I love the contrast with the snow in the background.
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by Terrye
Spring 2009 Twist Collective is up and ready for viewing! This issue features a tour of a sheep farm (from farm to yarn), painting lace with dye, knitting with wire, as well as the usual sweater, sock, shawl, baby… … Read More...
by Anne Weaver
I am so obsessed with fabric houses lately. These tiny houses by Marichelle from hearthandmadeblog are the latest to catch my eye. They’re so…. TINY. And so colorful, and so textural. If you want to own one of these tiny … Read More...
Did you see these blog articles? If not, take a short step back in time and catch up on some good information.
(1) Free Quilt Patterns from History provides not only traditional patterns but also “a bit of history that … Read More...
Hop over to the Helmar blog and leave a comment for a chance to win some of their adhesives.
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by Anne Weaver
First they told us all about zippers. Now BurdaStyle shares some interesting tidbits about the history of buttons. Go to the article.
[tags]sewing, buttons, history[/tags]
by Terrye

Easy knitting with adorable embroidery embellishments make this sweater/purse set from Creative Knitting just the thing to knit up for your girls for spring. Up here, spring sweater weather doesn’t really arrive until mid May or so, so there’s plenty … Read More...
Pimp Stitcher Amy Cluck combined a pattern from her newly released embroidery collection, Give a Hoot!, with Tamie Snow‘s tutorial on how to make an embroidered plushie to make this little cutie. She also has an interesting WIP using … Read More...
by Anne Weaver
When the going gets tough, the tough get… out the paper? That’s what Jennifer Stern at CraftStylish suggests doing when trying to get the kinks out of a pattern, whether it’s a pattern that you’re designing or a commercial pattern … Read More...
Claudia of Stitchado Handmade blog is sharing hand-embroidery patterns for four spring flowers, just in time for Northern-hemisphere seasonal stitchery. Beautiful! Get the patterns.
by jd wolfe
Looking for something to spice up your crochet? Want to try something new – or new to you? Here are some ideas that I find intriguing. I’ve got some more coming soon. Please let me know what you think … Read More...
by Terrye
Norah Gaughan Vol 4 is available now.
“Flower Child” includes 6 flowing garments inspired by the romantic realm of a mythic hippie. See the audio show, here: http://www.berroco.com/slideshows/ng4_flower_child/index.html
“Excess”: Norah’s love of surface design shines in these 6 sweaters … Read More...
The Scrap Review, a new site for reviewing scrapbooking products, will launch March 1st. The site will kick off with a week of giveaways, March 1st to 7th.
[tags]product review site[/tags]
by Terrye

So you have this gorgeous sweater you knitted quite some time ago. You put a lot of thought, time, expense and effort into knitting this, and you don’t want to throw it away, yet it’s just not “you” anymore.
Dawn … Read More...