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shellie wilson

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 on Pinterest (see, now its a work thing).

I have been busy playing working with pinterest over the past few months and pinning my CraftGossip Top Picks as well as some other random boards I created.  I often pin stuff I want to cook for my husband (The Tech guy) or pinning activities I want to do with my children (The Distractors).

If you would like to join me in my new social media  addiction outlet, then come and follow me. The thought of people “Following” me is a little scary so I feel I should include a warning.

Warning: All followers are responsible for their own addictions and directions that pinterest will take them. Proceed with Caution.

Note: To follow just the top picks from CraftGossip, click here (this board will only get the top picks as chosen by me). If you want to follow everything that I pin (really?), then click here.

Comments

  1. Your post really made me chuckle while I was nodding my head in agreement in several places. While I do not currently have a DH or young ones around, I have a middle-aged nephew and a senior-citizen kitty (both Distractors). I loved this! Thanks for the way you made me smile and enjoy being part of the crafting community.

Have you read?

Cross Stitch Lids for Mason Jars

Mason jars are fun to craft with, use for storage or even use to hold gifts like baking mixes or sugar scrubs. But you can make your jars even cuter — no matter what you’re using them for — by adding a bit of cross stitch to the lid. 

This idea comes from Gathered, and while they are showing examples of Mason jars used for storage in the craft room, you can use these throughout the house. I’m also thinking you could do this as a way to fancy up a traditional Mason jar sewing kit, since there’s already a little batting under the piece of cross stitch you could still use it as a pincushion. 

The post walks you through how to make a cross stitched Mason jar lids and a link to a PDF pattern that includes six design options.

They’re not totally for beginners because they include cross stitch, backstitch, eyelets and Rhodes stitch, but if you aren’t familiar with those techniques you can either leave them off or there’s a stitch diagram in the PDF to help you. 

Either way these designs are cute and relatively quick to stitch in whatever colors you like. It’s easy to turn them into jar toppers, or you could even just use the Mason jar ring as a frame rather than using it on top of a jar (I did this with a little Christmas tree cross stitch pattern I turned into an ornament). 

They’re super cute in the pastel colors shown, or work in red and green for more of a holiday look if you’re using them for gift giving. 

Check out the instructions and grab the free patterns for these jar toppers at Gathered. Once you start stitching I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of things you want to store or gift in jars so that you can make more of them!

[Photo: Gathered]