Marni from Haberdashery Fun shares a tutorial showing how to make her Color Pop Zipper Pouch. Brightly colored bias tape and zippers pop against a black & white print. The zipper pouches are quick to make and oh, so cute. … Read More...
Sewing Tutorial: Up-cycled Keepsake Neck tie coffee cozy
As the weather turns cooler, I’m replacing my iced lattes with actual warm coffees. Sadie Seasongoods shares a tutorial showing how you can make a coffee cozy out of an old neck tie. It wraps around a take-out coffee to … Read More...
Product Review: A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog
The brand new A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog is full of wonderful new cling rubber stamps, coordinating dies, papers and embellishments. You’ll find wonderful fall stamps like woodland critters, leaves, arrows and feathers (just right for table décor and fall … Read More...
Five Snacks Perfect for Munching on While Scrapbooking
via Damndelicious, Entirely Eventful Day, Stockpiling Moms, eatingclub vancouver, Fifteen Spatulas
Preparing for a mega scrapbooking session, or heading to a crop? Make sure you prepare a batch of snacks first! here are five snacks that would … Read More...
Tutorial | Alter a Book for Scrapbooking
Lisa Moorefield has done something that I long to do, but am scared of: altering a book to use for scrapbooking! Yes, taking a perfectly good book (albeit a vintage one), ripping pages out, and then using the book as … Read More...
Tutorial: Watermelon Cane
I’m having a little fun the last few days finding more veggie and fruit clay pieces – as I try to put together autumn and harvest pieces in my real world claying – and here’s a watermelon cane tutorial that’s … Read More...
Coffee Mug Quiche
Most of the items I see for cooking in mugs are cakes! This works great for me, because I’m the only one that likes quiche and it is more of a meal than a dessert.
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Tutorial: Fabric knot necklace
Jess from Craftiness Is Not Optional shares a tutorial at the Liberty of London blog showing how you can use a bit of pretty fabric (Liberty fabric, perhaps) to make a unique piece of jewelry. The fabric becomes a beautiful … Read More...
Tutorial: Get rid of that annoying jeans waistband gap!
One of my jeans pet peeves is that annoying gap that shows up at the back of the waistband. It happens a lot for me because my hips are proportionally bigger than my waist. (The nicer way of looking at … Read More...
Design Team Call: Really Reasonable Ribbon
Really Reasonable Ribbon is looking for members to join their Design Team. From their blog post:
Really Reasonable Ribbon is doing a design team call and we are looking for 3 or 4 new members to join our highly creative … Read More...
Free pattern: Adorable owl softies
Rachel from Adventures in Making shares a free pattern for making these adorable owl softies. They’re small softies – about the size of your hand – with big sweet eyes. They’re stuffed with polyfil and rice for weighting so they … Read More...
Edgar Allan Poe October: A Frugal Table Runner for Fall & Halloween
When you have a toddler in the house; you have to consider how safely to dress your table. Chances are a little one would have the runner off the table. Miriam and Erika are sisters who live 700 miles apart … Read More...
Geometric Glass Installations by Artist Chris Wood
Using reflective materials in his art, London based artist Chris Wood may use water in a wine glass or in the case of the installationshe’s been currently creating, he uses dichroic glass. Check out some of the wall installations over … Read More...
Tutorial: 1960s pillowcase style shift dress
This vintage 1960s pamphlet from Coats and Clark shows how you can make a shift dress. It’s made like a pillowcase dress, but in adult sizes and with a narrower fit than a typical child’s pillowcase dress. The Pattern Patter … Read More...
Easy Up-cycled Dollar Tree Pumpkins
About two months before holidays; check out your dollar store and you will come up with some magical decorating items. Take the orange plastic dollar store pumpkin and think about what you can do to re-make them into something unique. … Read More...
Get Ready for the Holidays with a Knit Table Runner
I’m still quite in denial about the fact that the fall and winter holidays are coming on quickly, but if you’re ready to get crafting for the big food events of the season, purl3agony has got you covered with her … Read More...
Knit Up Some Quick Handwarmers from Blue Sky Alpacas
Speaking of easy cable knitting patterns (as I was yesterday), here’s another great, free, quick, exceptionally useful project that’s great for holiday knitting or just for you if you happen to work in a cold office and want to … Read More...
Giveaway: 6 rolls of Duck Tape Scents and how to make a candy corn pennant banner
Yes! Duck Tape now comes scented! Enter to win 6 rolls of Duck Tape Scents
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I can personally testify to how much fun … Read More...
Download Free Printable Halloween Treat Labels
With trick-or-treating just around the corner, what will make your treats and goodies stand out among your Halloween visitors? What about a unique DIY treat cover? These can be used for more than just Halloween – the idea and pattern … Read More...
Tutorial: How to sew better interior bag pockets
Geta from Geta’s Quilting Studio says, “Unless it is just a grocery bag, every bag deserves at least one pocket.” I couldn’t agree more! There are many different ways to add pockets to the inside of a bag, but the … Read More...