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General Wax & Candle Company located in North Hollywood, CA is offering several candle making classes beginning in January 2012.
The beginner candle making class takes place January 14th, 2012 and costs $20 dollars if paid in advance. The same … Read More...
What makes a more loving Valentine’s gift than the comfort from a Hot Water Bottle with a cover made from an old felted sweater? You might put a red heart on this to make it look more of a Valentine … Read More...
Dom from Crafted shows how to make a ribbon bow headband. A bit of elastic at the bottom keeps it fitting snug around your head. I’m loving the little bow at the top! Get the tute.
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Seems like a lot of people are getting their new years off to a good start with some clay – I know I’m one of them!
Whitney from Freshly Given shows how to give a plain pair of leather gloves a shot of modern style. She cut out a portion of the glove, and then added fur trim to the bottom. Love!! Get the how-to.… Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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.
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Floresita of feeling stitchy has posted an awesome tutorial about couching. Really. Awe. Some. Check it out.
Heather of Tatted Treasures shows how to hide the ends of threads in a ring-only pattern. See her tute.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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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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...
