If you’re near Huntsville, Alabama and you’d like to learn how to create soy wax candles, there’s a candle making class on Friday, August 12 at 16 Main Gallery.
16 Main Gallery is a community of artists who offer classes … Read More...
Make a Clay Wedding Favour
Here’s a cute idea for a wedding favour on Michael’s website. They have scads of other tutorials as well and when clay is on sale it is the place to get it!
What’s YOUR Opinion? Art vs. Crafts
There have been many times over the past few years while searching out amazing crafts for children that I have come across the same argument. Some parents want their children to be ‘creative’ rather than follow … Read More...
Why you need a S’mores Maker
Still making S’mores over–pshaw–a boring campfire? Need some extraneous kitchenware (ie. is your house bigger than mine)? Check out the Old Fashioned S’mores Maker
. Or check out this new style version for S’mores Lazy Susan.
Looking for more S’smores … Read More...
Tutorial: Spot On scrappy dotty pillow
Head over to Lark Books for a tutorial showing how to make this super awesome Spot On pillow, designed by Malka Dubrawsky. The large colorful dots can be cut from fabrics in your scrap bin. It’s an excerpt from their … Read More...
How To: Felt an Owl
It appears we are all Owl crazy and here is another sweet Owl tutorial from Laura at “Bugs and Fishes”. The host and artist is Laura “Lupin” Howard, lives in England who likes to make and do. She admits she … Read More...
Tutorial: Turn an old book into sewing box
How About Orange has a downloadable project sheet showing how to turn an old book into a sewing box. Her example shows not just any book – a SEWING book. Squeeeal! The project is an excerpt from the book The … Read More...
Tutorial: Fabric letter banner
Janine from Heidi in Lederhosen shows how to make a series of fabric banners that spell out the word “family”. I love this idea! Each letter banner hangs from a twig, and is incorporated into a wall display of family … Read More...
How To Knit A Silly Hat….
Pretty as a picture
Isn’t this lace jewelry frame fabulous? If you can knit or crochet, then you can have one, too. Take a look at the tutorial at Stitch Diva Studios.
How to make braided rosette embellished recycled tin can organizers
Do you like making your embellishments as much as using them? Well then I have the twofer for you! Check out the tutorial on how to decorate recycled tin cans into cute display and storage containers that also includes a … Read More...
Tutorial: Foldover elastic kerchief headband
Cheryl from Sew Can Do shows how to make a sweet little kerchief headband. Rather than hemming all of the edges of the kerchief, she finished them off with foldover elastic. And elastic band makes it easy to slide on … Read More...
Knitting Decals!
Decorate your car, walls, lappy, refrigerator, or anything else with these knitting decals! Choose your own colors too.
These Knit and Knitting decal stickers
are made from high quality vinyl and can be applied on your wall, car window, mirror, … Read More...
Weekly giveaway winners
No winners this week. Why? Because, you silly thangs, none of the giveaways have ended yet. Run over to the CraftGossip giveaway page and enter all of this week’s contests. And watch for winners next Sunday.
Bernina-stitched inchies
Annette of Thread Addict shows us how she machine-embroidered some gorgeous inchies. She says,
… Read More...I digitised some ‘inchies’ using Bernina V5 software and sewed them out onto soluble fabric covered with iridescent film. I wanted the inchies to have a
Inspiration: Jude Hill
I never tire of Jude Hill‘s feather motif. Look closely and you’ll see that the central stem of the feather is her signature baker’s twine. Could I do this? I have to try. Go to Jude’s Spirit Cloth blog… Read More...
Visit a museum with Racaire
Racaire of Racaire’s Embroidery & Needlework shares photos from her recent trip to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in her hometown of Vienna, Austria, where she studied the needlework embellishments of clothing depicted in antique portraits. Beautiful. See her post.
Smurfy Cupcakes
Find a roundup of just Smurfy cupcakes and cupcake toppers HERE at Cupcakes Take the Cake. Shown are from Mick Robson on flickr.
Tutorial: “White space” 9-patch quilt
Sally from Sally’s Angelworks guest blogs at The Quilted Fish with a tutorial all about what she calls her Old Faithful quilt block – the 9-patch. She makes her quilt design modern by including lots of white space. Get the … Read More...
