Nicole from Our Cozy Nest shares a free pattern and tutorial at Moda Bake Shop for making a pretty purse. She calls it Ruby’s Party Bag, and it can be made out of three fat eighths of coordinating fabric prints … Read More...
Tutorial: Printed elastic headbands packaged cute for gift giving
Ashley from Lil Blue Boo shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to create these cute hairbands out of printed elastic. You just cut them to length and knot the elastic. It can’t get much easier than that!! But … Read More...
Tutorial: Fabric coffee sleeve
The Sewing Dork shows how to make a fabric coffee sleeve. They’re much prettier than the cardboard ones you get at the coffee shop, and I suspect that they have more insulation against the hot cup, too. Get the tutorial… Read More...
Deal alert: 50% off at Martingale
Thanks to Generation Q Magazine‘s notice on their Facebook page, I just ordered these three awesome quilting books and got them 50% off. Score! Not a quilter. Well, they have knitting/crochet, sewing, general craft books and gift items. … Read More...
Watermark Tee
I’m really loving this idea using Rit Dye and blue gel school glue. This would be such a fun gift for a teen, or even better for a ten to make for a friend! Get the full step by step … Read More...
Chunky upcycled paper bead project from Alma Stoller
Alma has been busy creating upcycled paper beads in pretty leaf shapes. Take a look at Alma’s tutorial and see how she made this adorable necklace. With a change in color scheme to sparkly, red, and gold these paper beads … Read More...
Tutorial: Felt-applique monogram pillow
Allison of little lovelies posted a tutorial for this rockin monogrammed felt-applique pillow. She shows us how to make it work for any initial or type style. See the tute.
Felt Christmas Trees a tutorial
Rachel of “Lines Across My Face” has a wonderful felt Christmas tree tutorial to share with us. She made four felt Christmas trees, one for each member of her family. Rachel says that the trees are very easy to … Read More...
Preprinted dissolvable designs
Check this from Robin Kingsley of Bird Brain Designs:
… Read More...I showed you how great it is to embroider your designs using Sticky Fabri-Solvy. It makes getting ready to get started so easy without the time spent tracing your
How to upcycle a strawberry basket
If you buy your strawberries in those cute little green baskets and tend to save them thinking you can re-use them someday, well someday has come with help of the clever crafter Carolyn of the blog Homework. She has a … Read More...
A handy gadget
Wendi Gratz of Shiny Happy World has found a neato gadget for stitchers. Use a Handi-Bob to clip a bobbin of thread to its matching spool. Brilliant! You can order this doodad from Wendi’s site. Go to her blog post … Read More...
DIY Spoon Hangers
You must click over and see the other photo in this post showing these spoon hangers with jars of vibrant flowers hanging from them. You could probably make these yourself, but these sell for $15 which is a really good … Read More...
C’est Noel Chart
Beaded Ribbon Edging Tutorial
Tutorial: Felt and fabric mushroom Christmas ornaments
Lisa from A Spoonful of Sugar shows how to make a super cute mushroom ornament from felt and fabric. I’m loving the woodland fairy tale-ish look for Christmas! It would be so sweet hanging on your Christmas tree (maybe a … Read More...
The evolution of a design
Mary Corbet steps us through her process of developing an embroidery design. Her final output of this snowflake design is a reference version with all the detail and a simplified transfer version. But, truly, every step along the way is … Read More...
Tutorial: 15 minute sunglasses clase
Lelanie from To Sew With Love guest blogs in the Crafty Creative Christmas series at Me Making Do with a tutorial showing how to make a sunglasses case. They’re quick and easy to make – she says it can be … Read More...
Etsy Shop: Drum Chick Designs Stamps
If you’re looking for unique one of a kind stamps for your holiday projects there are loads of wonderful shops on Etsy that sell hand made stamps. Drum Chick designs sells lots of great carved rubber, wood mounted stamps, here … Read More...
How to begin and end threads
Alice of BeStitched explains how to begin and end threads in needlepoint. See her post.
Make Candy Any Color You Want
So simple and clever (my two favorite adjectives)… Learn to turn candies any color you want HERE at PaperVine.