This trick or treat tote by Sew4Home is both practical and pretty. Strips of reflective ribbon
help keep the kiddoes safe for evening trick or treating, while the ruffles serve as eye candy. Go to the tutorial.
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Cool ideas: Give hand-me-down jeans some sparkle with iron-on gems
Mandy from Sugar Bee – Craft Edition shows how she made her daughter’s hand-me-down jeans feel sparkly new. Literally. She added iron-on sparkle gems to the pocket for an instant facelift. Brilliant!! Read more at Sugar Bee – Craft Edition… Read More...
It’s New: Casey Skirt ePattern
The newest addition to the Squiggly Twigs Designs line of ePatterns is the Casey Skirt. The skirt is gathered from a drop waist, which prevents too much fabric from gathereing up on the waistband. This versatile skirt can be made … Read More...
Halloween Crafts Round Up
Are you guys getting tired of seeing all the pumpkin ideas and wreath crafts I’ve been featuring? I still have more in my arsenal 😉 but for now I’ll share some other fun projects I found for Halloween. I’m sad … Read More...
Leaf Rubbing Tree
No Time For Flashcards is a great resource for young children’s crafts and book projects. Children should have fun going on a leaf hunt to find what leaves they want on their tree.
Tutorial: Embroidered Halloween badges
Stephanie Housley posted a tutorial at The Crafts Dept. (MarthaStewart.com) that provides the designs and instructions for creating hand-embroidered Halloween badges. All of the images of costumed animals are adorable, but I especially love this critter’s little g-string! Go to … Read More...
Felt Projects: 6 FREE Felted Knitting Patterns
You can’t pass up this offer from “Knitting Daily”. Simply go here and download your ebook. Felt making is so much fun, once you start you just can’t stop! From felted bags to various felt projects like slippers and gloves, … Read More...
How to clean a no-wash quilt
Pamela Kellogg of Kitty and Me Designs explains how to clean quilts that cannot be washed — such as those delicate, intricate crazy quilts and art quilts. The solution is so simple! See her post.
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Stunning stumpwork
Eye-candy alert! Through her gorgeous photos (and charming but brief text), Susan Elliott of Plays with Needles gives us a taste of a recent workshop she attended led by stumpwork expert Jane Nicholas. Jane’s work is … well, I’m … Read More...
A different kind of needlepunch
Zeshuregi of Creative Mind blog shares another technique that is familiar but a bit different. The flowers on these pillow covers were created with a type of needlepunch, but the tool Zeshuregi uses and the texture she produces are not … Read More...
Nature Crafts : Beeswax Leaf Ornaments
Donni from The Magic Onions creates beautiful children’s crafts that truly embrace nature and its wonderful gifts for us. Here she uses beeswax to make Ornament molds in the form of leaves…beautiful.
Tutorial: Stitchy Halloween card
Nikki of Nikki, in Stitches blog puts together a variety of techniques and resources in this charming Halloween greeting card. My favorite part: The BOO! focal element is embroidered on fabric. Nikki’s approach to transferring the image is a bit … Read More...
Recycle those summer paper party lanterns into Halloween Eyeballs
OK this post is a bit self serving. I confess eyeballs are probably my favorite Halloween motif and I have made eyeballs out of all sorts of things, mostly sports balls but this set made from paper party lanterns from … Read More...
Free template: Shoe lacing quiet book page
Tricia fromLeafy Treetop Spot and Leafy Treetop Spot shares a free template for a shoe lacing quiet book page. This is an awesome pattern! The laces are good for developing hand-eye coordiantion and helping little hands learn how to tie … Read More...
Gift Idea: Bottle Staches
Just how far with this mustache trend go? Check out these Pop’s ‘Staches, a set of 8 clip-on mustaches for your bottles.
Tutorial: Cinderella costume
Know any little girls who’d prefer girly princess outfits to scary monster costumes for Halloween? Ashley from Make It and Love It shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a Cinderella costume. Get the how-to.
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Piggy Macarons
The ridiculous cuteness of these piggy macarons just blows me away. I mean really. I can’t stop looking at this little guy. Find the recipe and how-tos HERE at raspberri cupcakes.
Things to do with Cupcake Liners
I love this collection of clever uses for cupcake liners from That’s What She Said. Find how-tos and inspiration HERE, including these cupcake liner fortune cookies and lanterns.
Harry Potter Licorice Wands and Cockroach Clusters
Babble has been such a wealth of ideas lately. Find recipes for Harry Potter liquorice wands and cockroach clusters (ew!) HERE. Chocolate cockroach mold
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Are you hosting a Harry Potter party? Check out these DIY Harry Potter crafts… Read More...
Pumpkin Pop Tarts
I think I am ready to declare an official new trend of innovations on the Pop Tart. Learn how to make pumpkin Pop Tarts HERE at babble.com.
Homemade Pop-tarts are really popular right now thanks to tik tok … Read More...