Absolutely darling is how I would describe Children at Play by Michael Miller. For Sarah Jane, it marks her very first fabric collection. With four colorways and themes and a total of 52 pieces there’s something to delight all … Read More...
Freebie: Stepping Stones Block pattern
Tacha Bruecher from Fat Quarterly shares her Stepping Stones Block pattern over at Sew, Mama, Sew!. You can use the block in a pillow, as shown here, or make multiples for a quilt. Get the free PDF Pattern … Read More...
Grab a cuppa: Quilt Festival Spring 2011
Grab a cup of tea, coffee or whatever suits, then check out the lovely quilts entered in Bloggers’ Quilt Festival – Spring 2011. Amy from Amy’s Creative Side hosts this biannual show. Visit the Festival and see all the … Read More...
Rock Your Iphone In Style!
Yes, I’ve finally joined the recent wave of technology with my very own smart phone! Yes, I got an Iphone. Yes, I totally love it. So, with an idea like this, (plus it’s i-cord – easy and fast), I can … Read More...
DIY Aspirin Facial
Aspirin
, a form of salicylic acid is an all natural skin care ingredient . Salicylic acid, a BHA (Beta Hydroxy Acid) has the ability to penetrate the skin deeply to unclog pores and effectively exfoliate dead skin cells reducing … Read More...
Quilt Market Best Booths – Salt Lake City
Quilt enthusiasts, go HERE to see the Best Booth Award winners at Spring Quilt Market 2011. Categories include Creativity, Merchandising, New Exhibitor, and Single/Double/ Multiple Booth.
Rainbow Fruit Wraps
What a convenient way to hold a rainbow. Find fruit rainbow wraps HERE at babble.
Hosting a Rainbow party? Check out these Rainbow party articles over on our Party Ideas Blog and these Rainbow party decorations
we found on … Read More...
Tutorial: Fill stitches
Don’t miss Mollie Johanson‘s latest Embroidery Basics tutorial about fill stitches. See the tute on her Wild Olive blog.
Felt Flower Name Tag Tutorial
Dee-Dee of whatever “Whatever Dee-Dee Wants” made these fun name tags for a blogger meet up for their “Heart Salt Lake” last week. She wanted something different than the usual name tags & the felt flower name tags were really … Read More...
Inspiration: Karen Barbe
To Karen Barbe, windowpane-checked tea towels are the perfect ground for a bit of stitching — a modern, funky twist on a traditional domestic art. Go to Karen’s blog.
Beautiful Painted Rocks
Rashmie from Mommy Labs submitted these beautiful painted rocks to me. She said “I hand-painted painted these pebbles/rocks that we found during a nature walk. I’ve used various styles of painting and used different materials – like acrylic paint, water-proof … Read More...
How to Get Featured in Home and Garden
As you might imagine, the editors here at Craft Gossip receive a lot of suggestions for project features. While I would love to feature everything that is submitted to the Home & Garden channel, there’s only so much time in … Read More...
Hamburger Cookies
Made from all store-bought ingredients, these quick and easy “burger” cookies would be great for any summer party. Learn to make ’em HERE at Come Together Kids.
DIY Fruit Leather
Make your own blackberry fruit leather HERE at Bloom, Bake and Create. And find more information on dehydrating from this earlier post Bloom, Bake and Create.
How to thread a beading needle
Jane of The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure has some excellent tips about beading needles and how to thread them. See her post.
Graduation Push Pops
As a recent push pop convert myself (see?), I adore this clever idea for decorating push pop containers
: graduation caps. Find the how-tos HERE at Frog Prince Paperie.
9 Kitchen Crafts
If you follow my other blog, Crafts by Amanda, you know that I have been making lots of different projects for my kitchen. The spice rack listed below (#1) is my latest, but I’ve been collecting several kitchen project links … Read More...
Inspiration: Ladysnail
What can you do with fabric yo-yos? Deb of The Imagination of Ladysnail sees them as manes for her little lion brooches. Awesome! I think I may even spy a few pirate lions in the crowd. Visit Deb’s blog.
How to dye buttons
Need custom-colored buttons to fit your crazy-quilt design? Dye them yourself! Rit Dye‘s site steps us through dyeing white nylon or plastic buttons. See the tute.
And many thanks to Diane Gilleland of Craftzine.com for pointing out this … Read More...
Gummi Bear Video Games
While we were an Intellivision family in the ’80s, my friend down the street had Atari, and I was obsessed with Breakout and Pac Man. So to see those classics now in Gummi form, well, it brings a tear to … Read More...