This blocking station is amazing and if you haven’t taken the time to create one for yourself well now is the time to get started. There is no excuse for WIP messiness when you have one of these around. The … Read More...
Tutorial: Business card wallet
Lindsey from Fort Worth Fabric Studio shares a tutorial for making a pretty fabric business card wallet. She’ll be carrying it with her at Quilt Market, the lucky dog! (One day I’ll make it there. Until, I’ll live vicariously through … Read More...
Knit Something for Fall from the Donegal Tweed Lookbook
Tweed yarns are just perfect for fall and winter knitting. They’re pretty and warm and just give a nice, wholesome, organic, natural look to whatever you knit with them.
Tahki Yarns has put together a look book celebrating its Donegal … Read More...
Toilet Paper Roll Halloween Pumpkin
These cute little pumpkins are easy to make and would make great decorations for Halloween or Thanksgiving — or, better yet, use it for both. Make several and tuck them in with your carved jack-o-lanterns for Halloween and then transform … Read More...
Make a Pottery Barn Knockoff Wine Bag
If you like to give wine as a hostess gift for the holidays, you’ll definitely want to check out this Pottery Barn knockoff wine bag tutorial. Two It Yourself has instructions for how to make your own wine bag using … Read More...
Tutorial: Bleach out a cool applique for boys shirts
Joy from XOXO Grandma shows how you can use a bleach pen to create cool applique graphics for boys’ t-shirts. Don’t worry if you can’t draw well. Her method has you tracing a printed image, and she even includes templates … Read More...
DIY Magic Potion Bottles
Rachel shared these DIY Magic Potion Bottles on the blog Adventures in Making! It’s not too late to make up some fun Halloween projects like this.
According to Rachel, you can use this same technique to make homemade lava lamps. … Read More...
Freebie: Woodland Animals Holiday Digital Stamp
This cute group of woodland friends would make such a sweet holiday card. Download a color or black and white digital stamp for free over at the Dearie Doll blog.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital … Read More...
Tutorial: Sew a sleeping bag for a doll
To celebrate the release of her Bedbug doll pattern, Jill from Snugglebug University shares a tutorial showing how you can make a witty bitty sleeping bag for a doll. The dimensions she gives will make a bed to fit a … Read More...
Tutorial | Altered Halloween Books
Check out these awesomely spooky Halloween altered books from Better After! They look really intricate but in fact they are super simple to make. between your crafts stash and your kids’ toy box (ahem!), you probably already have most … Read More...
Hilarious Video | A Scrapbooker’s Habitat
Posting Linda’s scrap hoarders video a couple weeks ago, reminded me of another funny scrap space video I’d seen years ago. I went on the hunt and luckily it is still available! In it Emily Falconbridge‘s husband does a … Read More...
Make Polymer Clay Gingerbread Cookies
One of the best bits about polymer clay is how lovely the imitations you can make are: beautiful, realistic, dolls, tasty looking foods, wonderful faux rocks. These gingerbread cookies would make perfect ornaments or decorations for the upcoming holidays. I … Read More...
40 Crafts for Your Diwali Celebration
In 2014, Diwali the festival of lights, will be celebrated on October 23. This festival of lights is celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs. The word Diwali comes from the Sanskrit word deepavali, which means a row of … Read More...
Tutorial: Halloween Junque Bows for little girls
Kimbo from A Girl and a Glue Gun shows how you can make her Halloween Junque Bows. They’re scrappy ribbon hair bows done up in Halloween colors. This is a great project to use up those bits of ribbon left … Read More...
Tutorial: Rocky Mountain Satchel
Sew4Home shares a tutorial for making their Rocky Mountain Satchel. It has traditional satchel proportions (short and wide), with two sets of handles so you can carry it over your shoulder or by hand. The longer strap is removable. The … Read More...
Pumpkin Snack Mix
Snack anyone? This would be great at a party, after school snack, sleep over or family game or movie night. Plus, great fun with the kids in the kitchen. They’ll never know they are learning, while helping you measure out … Read More...
Felted Fingerless Glove Tutorial
Lindsay of the “Cottage Mama” has a tutorial for last minute gift giving “Felted Fingerless Glove”! How cute are these sweet fingerless gloves for cold days at the keyboard or texting? Lindsay tells us how to felt your old wool … Read More...
Freebie: Breast Cancer Awareness
October is breast cancer awareness
month. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2014, about 232,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women, about 62,570 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed … Read More...
Tips and tools for softie making
Softie making involves sewing lots of small bits and pieces, turning narrow tubes, etc. And when you’re sewing small bits like that, it’s helpful to have the right tools. They’ll help make fast work of turning those narrow tubes, and … Read More...
Free Chunky Cowl from Sweater Babe {Through Oct. 31, 2014}
The free pattern from the Sweater Babe this month is one I’m really interested in because I think I’m making cowls for a bunch of people for Christmas this year.
The Deluxe Lace Cowl uses a bold textured lace pattern … Read More...