You can get free embroidery designs and projects weekly, starting August 18, at Hugs from Helen blog, thanks to the new Stitcher’s Angel Project. Follow along, collecting designs for your personal use. Or participate in the swaps, making … Read More...
Tutorial: Stumpwork embroidery
Stumpwork sounds like something sweaty done outside with a grinder. But in the needlework world, it’s a dimensional style of embroidery that can produce lifelike results. The Needlework Tips and Techniques site has posted a stumpwork tutorial that is appropriate … Read More...
Vintage-Inspired Bobby Pins
Found & Made Designs is exactly what it sounds like — a studio that creates handcrafted items using bits and pieces of vintage, recycled or repurposed materials found at estate sales, thrift stores and junk piles. In this delightful Etsy … Read More...
Swan Candle Making Supplies
I wanted to share another candle supply company I came across recently. They have some intriguing organic wax blends with coconut, soy and palm. Of course they also offer paraffin and beeswax.
Their prices are reasonable and there is a … Read More...
Tutorial: Detached buttonhole stitch
If you’re looking for a great fill stitch for a large area of embroidery, detached buttonhole stitch may be your answer. A thorough tutorial is available from Tricia Wilson Nguyen of Thistle Threads. Many thanks to Jill Hall of The … Read More...
WOODEN CROCHET HOOKS
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For all of you/us who love wood hooks, I’ve gathered a long list of links that will take you to a site that sells wood hooks. Many of these are cottage industries, home-based businesses that are true labors of … Read More...
Get your quilt project published!
Stampington & Company, publishers of well-known art-and-craft magazines such as Somerset Studio and Belle Armoire, are slating four new publications for 2009, including Art Quilting Studio. Stampington is already calling for entries of readers’ work. Get your … Read More...
Indie Shopping with Moushart Jewelry
Indie Shopping is one of my favorite websites for scoping out up and coming crafty talent. This week the ladies interview Michelle of Moushart Jewelry. All kinds of fun insider information like how Michelle worked for Cirque Du Soleil, … Read More...
Sue Bleiweiss giveaway
Sue Bleiweiss, blogger extraordinaire and publisher of Fibre&Stitch online magazine, is giving stuff away! Just comment on this post. For each 25 comments, Sue will draw a winner to receive the latest issue of Fibre&Stitch or the winner’s … Read More...
Link heaven
The Golden Thimble has posted a list of 527 links to free craft projects, many in the realm of needlework. You’ll find everything from pom poms to aprons. Thanks to Tipnut for the heads-up!
Project Runway is Back!
Yay! My favorite show, Project Runway is back for a brand new season! The Season Premiere was last night and boy, was it good. Seriously, a LOT of design talent coupled with some interesting folks, to say the least (including … Read More...
Beading Supplies at Oriental Trading Company
I got an Oriental Trading Company catalog a few days ago. If you have never heard of them, they are the party supply people-with all the crazy cheap favors, decorations and whatnots to make any occasion festive. Everyone loves them, … Read More...
Free cross-stitch patterns: Gingham flowers
Tipnut.com has been running a series of free cross-stitch patterns for gingham-look flowers. They would make a darling tea towel set or a sweet addition to a little dress. The whole series is now gathered together in this post, … Read More...
Sign up for this stitching retreat
Are a few days of uninterrupted stitching in an Australian mountain retreat your idea of heaven? (That’s certainly where I would like to spend the afterlife.) If so, you still have time to sign up for The Needlework Boutique’s 2008 … Read More...
Christmas in July at Heartstrings Embroidery
Heartstrings Embroidery is having a big Christmas in July sale. New designs are being released each day through July 25, and all new releases are 25% off through that date. There are lots of other freebies, sales, and specials, … Read More...
Win free fat quarters
Enter the NICHE Awards competition
Sponsored by NICHE magazine, the annual NICHE Awards competition celebrates excellence and innovation in American and Canadian craft.
Categories include Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood, Jewelry, Home Furnishings, Judaica, Recycled, Teapots and many more. Two new categories have been added … Read More...
Tatting over wire
Iris Niebach has posted a tutorial for tatting around a wire – a useful technique for making tatted jewelry and other projects that need a bit of stiffness and shaping. See the video.
Cute Crochet Cherry Earrings Pattern
Check out this FREE crochet jewelry pattern from Roxycraft. This is for the Cherry Pickers crochet earrings pattern. Super sweet and very vintage. You could resize it and make a necklace like this, I have one my grandmother made … Read More...
Pimp Stitch giveaway
WoooHOOO! Pimp Stitch is giving away a rockin’ stitching kit! Included are “a full fat quater of osnaburg fabric, 4 colors of floss, an embroidery needle and a super cute staight pin for pinning your pattern to your fabric for … Read More...