Carmi Cimicata’s necklace for Day of Dead is a show stopper. I’d wear it a lot more days of the year, too! Take a look at Carmi’s blog to see her inspiration and more about how she made it.
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Free patterns and charts: Winter and Christmas
This Embroidery roundup is all about free patterns. We have created this quick list with links to each Embroidery pattern. We have tried to choose free patterns to suit something for everyone.
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Tentacle Pot Pie
I mean really, not martha, really. Tentacle pot pie? Quite possibly, the most perfect dish to set in front of oneself on Halloween. Perfect. Learn how to make it HERE at babble, by not martha.
Free patterns and charts: Autumn and Halloween
We have created this quick list with links to each Halloween pattern. We have tried to choose free patterns to suit something for everyone.
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New Release: Papertrey Ink Stamps
Papertrey Ink has just released 10 wonderful new clear stamp sets for the holidays with themes like treat labels, tags, holly, ice skating, sayings, winter jars, birds and branches and more. You can see all the new Papertrey stamps here… Read More...
Free charts: Cross-stitch
DIY: Soap on a Rope
Instructables user Ninzerbean shares instructions for creating your own Soap on a Rope.
Art Glass…Matt Szosz and The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet
Over at The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet they were asking Matt Szosz three questions. Stuff like, “What are you working on?” and inspiration stuff. I found his art fascinating so I looked around a bit and found a video of … Read More...
Tutorial: Cute Halloween appliqued placemats
Sarah from A Little of This, A Little of That shares a tutorial and template for a set of three Halloween-themed placemats. One is a Creepy Spider, another a Wicked Witch Hat, and the third is a Boo Pumpkin. All … Read More...
Tutorial: Kid’s bat costume
Ellen from The Long Thread guest blogs at Alpha Mom with a tutorial showing how to make a kid’s bat costume. It’s easily made from a long-sleeved t-shirt and a yard of black felt. A bit of boning helps give … Read More...
Purple Piggy Rice
At least, I think that’s an appropriate title… Learn how to make these purple piggy rice balls (and the tofu and veggies behind them) HERE at Just My Delicious.
DIY: charming Felted Pumpkins the Easy Peasy Way
“Yours ’til Niagara Falls” our featured Felter is very frugal with her time and energy, she has combined a fairly common wet-felting technique and needle felting to make these darling pumpkins. The technique is so easy that you can make … Read More...
Potato rings
Check out these inventive dried potato rings from Julie Usel. I don’t really know how long something like this would last but given it’s almost Halloween, I can’t help but think this would be a great project to make … Read More...
A BatMobile of a Different Kind
The hanging kind I mean. Learn how to make these edible bat mobile from decorated cookies HERE at The Vanilla Bean Baker.
Project: Stamped Halloween Lantern
There’s still time to make decorations for your Halloween party, click here to visit Inkadinkado and find instructions on how to make this spooky stamped paper lantern.
-Heather
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Free catalog from Janet Granger
Janet Granger‘s new dollhouse embroidery catalogue is available as a free download. Grab it!
Inspiration: Mimi Kirchner
I never tire of looking at Mimi Kirchner‘s gorgeous handmade dolls. If I had a granddaughter, I would snap up this bird lady for her. I can easily imagine a wee one being enthralled by the bird images, the … Read More...
Inspiration: Melissa Sue Stanley
Eeeeeeeeee! The cuteness is almost unbearable! Melissa Sue Stanley. art=love=life. Go there.
Inspiration: Judy Coates Perez
If you’re art quilter Judy Coates Perez, you can add a bit of embroidery to some felted wool balls, and — tada! — Dia de Los Muertos skulls! See more at Judy’s Painted Threads blog post.
Free CQ blocks from Janet Stauffacher
Here are a couple of beautiful free foundation designs for crazy-quilt blocks from Janet Stauffacher of Nostalgic NeedleART, featuring images from her antique postcard collection. Janet says,
… Read More...Print [the block] directly onto computer printer fabric with your inkjet printer,