Melissa from Melly Sews shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to refashion a rather plain cowl neck sweater into her gorgeous Violet Flowers sweater. She gets the sweater fabric she needs to create the dimensional flower embellishments from … Read More...
Tutorial: DIY fabric cover for an e-reader
Ashley from Mommy By Day… Crafter By Night shares a tutorial for making her All Wrapped Up Kindle Case. (This will also work for other e-readers, though you’d probably need to adjust the measurements.) She created the fabric cover for … Read More...
Free pattern: Penguin softies
Want to know how to make this super cute penguin softie? The Purl Bee has a pattern and tutorial for doing just that. They also have fat quarter bundles for sale made up of the same black and white fabrics … Read More...
Free Illustrated Recipe for Royal Icing
Every cookie decorator needs, yes needs, requires, must have, cannot survive without a good royal icing recipe. (PS. My go-to is HERE.) Thankfully, Sweetopia has provided not only a wonderful royal icing recipe, but a wonderful free illustrated royal … Read More...
How to sew a recycled shop rag pillow
Run don’t walk out to the garage (but don’t tell the person who washes the cars what you’re doing!) and grab a couple of shop rags. Then pop on over to Tiki’s blog Ribbons Lace and Inspiration to follow the … Read More...
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Cute! Give them out as is, dress them up with buttons, candies and embroidery, or sew 2 together to make a little pouch for your love notes!
From the Anne, over at the Flax and Twine Blog, HERE
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How to: Basic Bottlecap pincushions
You can let your imagination run wild with this little Bottlecap pincushion. Colors and decorative embellishments will make this uniquely yours. Find the tutorial on Jen Segrest’s “verybigjen’s flickr tutorial”! Thanks Jen for sharing your tutorial.
Looking for more ways … Read More...
Tutorial: Couching
Floresita of feeling stitchy has posted an awesome tutorial about couching. Really. Awe. Some. Check it out.
Tatting tutorial: Hiding thread ends
Heather of Tatted Treasures shows how to hide the ends of threads in a ring-only pattern. See her tute.
Inspiration: Ruth Rae
Ruth Rae is participating in Tag Tuesday this year. She says, ” I thought that it would be good to help me open up and make something just because.” The first week’s challenge theme was snow, and Ruth responded with … Read More...
Tutorial: Simple peacock
Ina of Let’s Learn Embroidery joined SharonB’s Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge; and using last week’s challenge stitch–the fly stitch–she created a pretty sequined peacock. And she shares how she did it! See her tute.
Win Karen Ruane buttons!
You could win some of Karen Ruane‘s gorgeous handmade buttons! She hasn’t posted an entry deadline, so hurry over to her blog to enter.
DIY Colored Sanding Sugar
I’ve actually tried to dye my own sprinkles before. And achieved limited success. But silly me saved no money since I just dyed fine white sprinkles (just as expensive), and it wasn’t exactly foolproof (picture clumping). So a huge thank … Read More...
Last day to enter!
If you missed any of Mary Corbet‘s 12 Days of Christmas giveaways, you still have time to enter. Check out her recap post that lists the links to all 12 giveaways. But hurry! The contest ends January 9!
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Soon: US lace convention
An outstanding lace event is in the offing in the USA. The 59th International Old Lacers, Inc. (IOLI) Convention, hosted by the Minnesota Lace Society will be held August 5-11, 2012, in St. Paul, Minnesota. The event includes classes, lace … Read More...
Doodly valentine inspiration
I wonder if Lisa Burke has ever thought about creating a fabric line from her doodles. Her collection of Valentine’s Day hearts made of construction paper seem too temporary for such pretties, at least to this quilter’s way of thinking. … Read More...
Tutorial: Vintage-inspired faux fur pillbox hat
Lizzie B. from Cotton & Curls continues the Faux Fur Week series with a tutorial showing how to make a simple faux fur pillbox hat. She was inspired by a hat worn by Audrey Hepburn in the movie charade. The … Read More...
Yardstick Buffet
Wowza. How cool is this? The kicker? it’s not just some photo file that someone pinned on Pinterest. It’s actually a tutorial from Laura at the Corner House blog. And yes, a tutorial! So you can make one too! Kudos … Read More...
Tutorial: Turn instagrams into photostrips
College Prepster shows what you can do with your iPhone instagrams and PhotoShop to take them from virtual photo stream to real. Never heard of this app? Read more about it; go to article by Becky Sullivan for NPR where … Read More...
