This knit dress by Petro from Creative Homemaking is the perfect knit dress for summer! It has gathered cap sleeves and pockets, and a pleat at the bust that makes it roomy and comfortable. She shares a tutorial and a … Read More...
Faux Calligraphy Tutorial, Step by Step
Follow this detailed tutorial to master faux calligraphy! You can get that lovely hand drawn look, even though you don’t like your handwriting. It just takes practice, and most importantly going slowly until you master the concept.
You’ll be able … Read More...
Tip: Use Your Supplies to Wrap Gifts
Learn how to use your paper crafting supplies, like pattern paper, stamps, embellishments and dies to wrap lovely gifts anyone would enjoy receiving. Rebecca Luminarias shares her tips over on the Capture the Moment blog. Click here for her detailed … Read More...
Tutorial and pattern: Fun felt cactus
This felt cactus would make a happy addition to your desk or kitchen window! It would also make a mighty cute pincushion, don’t you think? Melissa Gaggiano shares a tutorial and pattern at My Poppet. It is such a fun … Read More...
Playdough Mazes Make for Quick Setup Learning Fun
If you have a little one who is learning their letters, keep this idea on hand for when you need to occupy them for a few minutes.
Teach Me Mommy shared this idea for playdough letter mazes, which is … Read More...
The Simplest Triangle Shawl Ever
It could be because I have two out-of-town trips in less than a month, or just because it’s almost summer and I don’t have any brain waves left to think about knitting, but I really want to be knitting something … Read More...
Tutorial and pattern: Girls panties
Sewing panties is not hard to do, and it’s a great way to use your scraps of knit fabric. Liz from Sew4Bub shares a tutorial and pattern over at The Handcrafted Collective for making girls’ panties. Her free pattern comes … Read More...
Essential Oil Parody for “Royals”
I just came across this guy called Rory Bland, Now don’t get mistaken by his name this dude is in no way BLAND. You just have to love his “Royals” Parody all about essential oils. You can check out … Read More...
8 Summer Crochet Shorts And Pants Patterns
Summer is the perfect time to break out your crochet hook and create some fun and fashionable shorts. These crochet short patterns are from a variety of designers, but all of them are free and available for you to use. … Read More...
Tip: Die Cutting Felt
Felt shapes add a wonderful soft touch to any card or project. And using your metal dies you can cut out your own felt shapes and embellishments. Combine them with embossing, stamping or paper die cutting for lovely card designs. … Read More...
Tutorial: X-frame laundry hamper
The last time I shopped for a laundry hamper, I was shocked at how much they cost! Especially if you want one that looks nice. But you can DIY your own with a tutorial from Gina Michele. It has a … Read More...
Inexpensive Craft Room Storage
Store scrapbook paper and other craft supplies in these clear, budget-friendly craft room storage containers with chalkboard labels. They stack together to keep everything organized.
Find out where you can get them, and how best to use chalkboard labels
at … Read More...
Make and paint a Little Free Library with Dad for Father’s Day
Little Free Libraries are a great way to swap books and they make a great surface to customize using Testors paint and airbrush kits with images that share your interests. Can you guess what theme I went with?
If you … Read More...
Tweaking Your Jellyroll Cane
Chifonie wrote this neat tutorial (English translation) for Parôle de Paté, a great French polymer clay
community site. Like a lot of good variants, this one came about because the writer didn’t have all of the materials for … Read More...
Tutorial and pattern: Flora the Elephant softie
Flora the Elephant is such a sweet softie! Bustle and Sew shares a free pattern for making her. She’s lovely sewn up in a vintage floral fabric with a soft pink wool underbelly and ears. She’d also be cute made … Read More...
Tutorial and pattern: Doll t-shirt and pants
Sew a wardrobe of clothes for your child’s doll with this tutorial from Sew What Alicia! She shares a pattern for making a doll t-shirt and pants. Change up the fabrics and embellish with applique and trims to make each … Read More...
Knit a Soap Pouch with Scrubby Yarn
You know I’ve been knitting a lot of washcloths lately for the Knitted Kitchen Blog Hop (and I’ll have a new on for you next week!) but what I really want to do is knit something with Scrubby.
This is … Read More...
Cross Stitch on a Pegboard for a Modern Look
I love this peg board cross stitch rose idea from Dekotopia. The site is in German, and the translation I got from Google is terrible, but you don’t really have to understand the words to know what is going on.… Read More...
Microwave hot bowl holders in Kyoto fabric by Amy Barickman
Disclaimer: I received product (fabric and sewing pattern) in return for writing this post. Any opinions are 100% mine.
I was recently given the opportunity to sew up a project using the new Kyoto fabric line by Amy Barickman of … Read More...
Tutorial: Rotate sewing pattern darts
Darts allow you to shape a garment by pinching out excess fabric. Though a sewing pattern might have the darts coming in from the side, you can easily adjust the pattern to have the darts coming in from the shoulder. … Read More...