Arlyna of Dragon & Phoenix blog designed this adorable matryoshka tooth-fairy pillow, and she’s sharing her pattern with us! Enjoy her blog. Or go directly to the PDF file.
Many thanks to sweet tidings blog for pointing out … Read More...
Tutorial: The Crafty Chica’s Jumbo Tote
Head over to Lark Crafts for a free downloadable tutorial for making The Crafty Chica’s Jumbo Tote out of a pair of scarves. The tutorial is offered as an excerpt from the book crafty chica
Signature Styles. Go to Lark … Read More...
Sewing Pattern Tutorial: Anthro Orimono-inspired pillow
Suzannah from Creative Dressmaking shares a tutorial on her blog, Adventures in Dressmaking, showing how to recreate the look of the popular Orimono pillow design from Anthropologie. The beautiful flower design can be made from the bits of fabric in … Read More...
Tutorial: Maternity t-shirts to little girl skirts
Elizabeth from Simple Simon & Co. shares a tutorial on her blog showing how she turned her old maternity t-shirts into short gathered skirts for her little girl. This is such a great idea!! Because the bottom is already hemmed … Read More...
Tutorial: Garden Party Frock for little girls
Shauna from Shwin & Shwin guest blogs at Celebrate the Madness with a tutorial showing how to make her Garden Party Frock for little girls. The wrap dress is made with a gathered bodice and a bubble skirt. The gathered … Read More...
Tutorial: Make your tape measure pretty
Katy from Sew Apropos and No Big Dill shows how you can give a plain tape measure a makeover so it looks just as fabulous as the clothes you make with it. Hers is all done up in a bright … Read More...
New Release: Purple Onion Stamps
Purple Onion stamps has some super duper cute new stamps from designer Stephanie Ackerman, pretty flowers, birds, banners and more. Click here to see all the new stamp designs and then be sure to check out their blog for loads … Read More...
Easy butterfly seam treatment
Vivienne of Anlabyhouse blog shows us the simple steps to creating a charming butterfly seam treatment. See her post.
And many thanks to KERRYKATIECAKES for pointing out this find.
Coffee Sleeve Mini Album | Bursts of Creativity
Melissa Thiesse made this coffee themed minibook for a friend using the cardboard coffee sleeves for Starbucks. This is another of her Thrifty Thursday posts. Click here to see more
Mini albums are great little projects for using up scraps, … Read More...
MORE SUMMER FUN
Here’s another fairly simple idea for summer crochet.
http://crochetncrafts.com/summerwrapandkerchief.html
I like the idea of having a little wrap readily available if the A/C or a windy evening leave me with a chill. This would fold up easily and stash in … Read More...
Learn Moorish and corduroy stitch
Get the new, free stitch journal pages for Moorish Stitch and Corduroy Stitch from Cheryl Fall‘s needlepoint blog at About.com. Go to the post.
Free SVG Files | Sunflower and Butterfly
The BeaOriginals sites is back up and they have been posting new SVG files all week. Check out the sunflower file here, and the butterfly file here. Be sure to spend some time checking to see what else they have … Read More...
Gallery books galore!
Lark is offering another great giveaway! This time you’ll have a chance to win 20 of their gallery books:
Vintage Jewelry Design
500 Silver Jewelry Designs
500 Gemstone Jewels
1000 Rings
500 Pendants & Lockets
500 Wedding Rings
500 Earrings… Read More...
Tiny Baby Bunnies Knitting Pattern @Craftzine.com blog
Saw these tiny baby bunnies on CraftZine a few weeks ago. SO CUTE!!!
Free Digital Mini Kit | After The Rain
This mini digital kit by Jennifer Conlon (with four papers and four elements), is available for free until May 14th. Click here for more information. Click here to go to the download.
Inspiration Du Jour | The 2 Men in My Life
The 2 Men in My Life by tortagialla
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24 “Other” things to do with a ShamWOW cloth
We know by now you have all seen the Shamwow infomercials and more than likely you have bought your very own pack of shamwows or if you are a little thrifty – some generic imported brand from a discount store. … Read More...
International Society of Glass Bead Makers Gathering
I’ve been talking about BECon so much and even the GAS conference and have neglected to let everyone know that registration is open for the next ISGB Gathering that’s being held in Louisville, KY July 27-31, 2001. Go directly to … Read More...
Susan captures SharonB
Susan Elliott gets everything! In April, she attended CQ Adventure, a crazy-quilters’ retreat that attracted illustrious teachers from around the globe to Glastonbury, CT, USA. Among these luminaries: our beloved Sharon Boggon (SharonB of Pin Tangle), who … Read More...
Ideas for Father’s Day
Angela of CraftyGoat has a post about Father’s Day gifts from clay.