It can be really hard to keep track of all your ink pads, so why not get them organized with an Ink Catalog? Stamp out and catalog each color to help you keep track. Here’s a helpful article about this … Read More...
LEGOMan Valentine’s Cards
Sugar Swings! is so right on that LEGO dudes are actually a Valentine’s treat a 6 year old boy might get on board with. Look what she did with them. Made cards! “Best friend on the block”… Killing me. Find … Read More...
Tutorial: Valentine Pot Holder
Find out how A Spoonful of Sugar made this clever Valentine’s Day pot holder. So cute. Go to Valentine Pot Holder tutorial.
Tutorial: Bitty bunny sachet (or pattern weight)
Craft Passion shows how to make these little bitty bunny sachets. They’re cute made from various fabric prints, but I’m also loving the version with the little embroidered faces. They’d also make awesome fabric weights if you filled them with … Read More...
Read all about it: Organize your sewing notions with unexpected items
Karen from Sew Many Ways guest blogs in the Sewing 101 series at Pickup Some Creativity with tips for organizing your sewing notions with some rather unexpected items. For example, she uses golf tees to keep her bobbins with the … Read More...
Tutorial: Love Letter wristlet
Caroline from Sew Together shows how to create this Love Letter wristlet. Shaped like an envelope with a pretty heart applique, the mini-clutch is just big enough to hold your essentials while still being small enough to just grab and … Read More...
Heart Cookies with Poured Icing
Simple lovely, right? Find these heart cookies HERE at Baker’s Royale with tips and links to make your own.
Tutorial: Lovebirds raw-edge applique for Valentine’s
Stephanie from Eden and Eliot uses fusible webbing
to create a raw-edge lovebirds applique for a Valentine’s onesie, and shares a tutorial on her blog showing how she did it. This is such a cute design! I’m loving the dimension … Read More...
Heart Thumbprint Cookies
This darling kid-doable idea to turn thumbprint cookies into a Valentine’s Day treat got a slap on the forehead “of course” from me. So perfect. Find the idea HERE at My Kids Make.
Lookie what she made: House sewing box
Nette shows off the beautiful sewing box that she made. She decorated it to look like a house, with felt windows, doors, and molding on the outside. There’s even a little clothes line and a dog house! I’m loving all … Read More...
Freebie: Heart Box
Steamy Hearts
And no, not steamy romance. Steampunk steamy. Tina Holden has a fabulous steampunk aesthetic going with this heart. She also sells tutorials on how to create this effect in her other shop so you, too, could be having a … Read More...
Celtic Leaves from Kelly Fletcher
Ooooooooooo! Check out Kelly Fletcher‘s new design, Celtic Leaves. Kelly’s web site describes the pattern:
… Read More...Hand-stitched embroidery pattern, incorporating appliqué and beading
Skill level : advancedEight contemporary leaves incorporating traditional Celtic design. The leaves are unique and
Tutorial: Handmade Flowers
Handmade flowers are showing up in weddings everywhere! Making them completely from scratch can be time consuming and they can a bit pricey to purchase. A quick and inexpensive alternative is adding handcrafted elements to premade silk flowers from the … Read More...
Tutorial: Valentine tree embroidery
Beth of The Modern Lady has a great idea for a valentine gift: this personalized tree-carving embroidery. She’s sharing her design and instructions. Go to her blog post for the pattern and tute.
Freebies with purchase from Sue Rangeley
Sue Rangeley, author of Embroidered Originals, has a terrific promotion going on at her site:
… Read More...Special Promotion for February: With each copy of Sue’s book comes an extra ‘step by step’ worksheet to make a flower corsage, plus
Sale at Follow the White Bunny
Nicole of Follow the White Bunny announces,
… Read More...Until the 7th of February I have a Year of the Rabbit Sale in my shop! Use the special Coupon code and get 20% off all…patterns! On check out use this
Cardboard Moose Trophy by CardboardSafari on Etsy
I saw these great cardboard taxidermy trophy heads. Cardboard Safari laser cuts them and then sends them to you flat and you assemble them yourself. I really think having a few of these would enhance my home.
Fred Large Moose … Read More...
Tutorial: Scrappy hearts Valentine’s garland
Mrs. Cummings Rx combines stuffed fabric hearts and tied fabric strips to make this scrappy Valentine’s garland, and she shares a tutorial showing how she made it. This would make a cute decoration for your mantel! Get the tutorial.… Read More...
Tutorial: Make cropped footless tights from outgrown tights
Christine from From an Igloo shows an easy fix for a pair of girls’ tights that have grown too short. She cut the feet off of them and turned them into cropped, footless tights. This is such an awesome idea! … Read More...