Check out Mimi Kirchner‘s latest creation — a soft fox doll with sweet accessories. You’ll love the details! See Mimi’s post.
Redwork on quilts
Roseann of Rosebud’s Cottage gives us a close-up look at some of the red and white quilts on display at a quilt show in New York City last month, many incorporating redwork embroidery. You’ll enjoy her photos. Go to Roseann’s … Read More...
A Butterfly for Mother’s Day
A bright and hopeful butterfly pendant makes the perfect Mother’s Day gift or celebration of spring. Or, hey, any day gift. This one looks like a lovely transfer from CushyAdornments.
Get the best results from your silks
The thread experts at Kreinik Thread Blog offer five tips for stitching with silk threads. See the post.
Stitch a Posie sampler
This Daisychain ABCs Crewelwork Sampler makes me so happy — modern, colorful, full of variety and fun. The design is by Alicia Paulson (Posie Gets Cozy), and she’s taking preorders for kits now. Later the design will be … Read More...
Tutorial: How to make a hair scrunchie
Melissa Goodsell from Day to Day shares a tutorial showing how to make your own hair scrunchies. The fabric covered elastic bands are super handy (and comfortable) for ponytails, and you never can seem to have enough of them. Get … Read More...
Tutorial: Slipcover for toddler chairs
Lindsay from Diary of a Crafty Lady shows how she made slipcovers for the chairs at her child’s play table. With sashes tied in pretty bows across the backs, they look just like the grown-up versions you often see around … Read More...
Royals wed in embroidered gowns
Susan Elliott of Plays with Needles takes a look at several royal wedding ensembles of recent history, sharing delicious photos and fascinating details about the lacework, embroidery, and beading involved. Enjoy Susan’s post.
Sewing Pattern: Summer Lovin tee with swoop shoulder yokes
Jess from Craftiness Is Not Optional shows how to make her Summer Lovin tee for little girls. I love the swoop shoulder yokes! The buttoned yokes take the shirt up a notch without being too dressy. I know it’s intended … Read More...
The Queen of England’s Wedding Scones
No really. The actual recipe. Smashed Peas and Carrots discovered this rare treasure, this top secret recipe, this honest to goodness real scone recipe from the Queen herself. See? There’s a scanned, antiquated, mimeographed, once-folded paper with that really old-style … Read More...
Chili Pepper Cake Balls
I’m loving all the Cinco de Mayo goodies this year. Learn how to make chili pepper cake balls HERE at Nikki in Stitches from guest poster Terri of Terri’s Party Treasures.
Technique: Frame Your Stamped Image
Adding a hand drawn frame is a quick and easy way to pull together a stamped card front and add a little something extra. Learn how with a great video from Nicole Heady on her blog. Be sure to … Read More...
Paper Flower Cake Decorations
I adore this idea featured on the Hostess with the Mostess blog. It’s budget friendly, DIY and looks gorgeous. Find a tutorial to decorate a bakery cake with paper flowers HERE at the Hostess with the Mostess. (spotted … Read More...
Chips and Salsa… Cookies
For the sweets-lover on Cinco de Mayo: some chips and dip cookie style. Find the how-tos to make lemon poppyseed “tortilla” cookies, strawberry-kiwi “sala” and “guacamole” fruit dip HERE at The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle.
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Make a felt flower with Olivia
You have to fall in love with Olive (Oli) from the “Big Red Hat” She is a gregarious little lady that shows you every step to creating this stunning felt flower. She makes it seem so easy and one of … Read More...
Corona Beer Pops
Perfect for Cinco de Mayo. Or summer. Or a hot Spring. Or a barbeque. Or, well, you get the idea. Make Corona beer popsicles from the always-brilliant Baker’s Royale.
Dinosaur Birthday Party
Debbie from Wants and Wishes submitted the molten lava volcano cakes from this Dinosaur party. But this party is way too fabulous not to share the rest. Not only are there molten lava volcano cakes, but check out the toy … Read More...
Tutorial: Hardback sketchbook
Amy from Angry Chicken shows how she makes sketchbooks for her kids. But all crafters – young and old – need some of these for doodling and designing. Go to her blog to get the know-how.
The Paper Gangster Etsy Store Makes Recycled page prints
I love mixing type and images and the designers behind the Etsy Store The Paper Gangster do a wonderful job of taking old book pages and printing on them a wide variety of images one I bet would make a … Read More...
Tips for photographing quilts for your blog
Amy Ellis shares a video on her blog that shows how to get the best shots of your quilts. All this is in preparation for the upcoming Bloggers’ Quilt Festival, which she hosts. Go to the video.