Little Birdie Secrets shows how to make a headband for a little bitty baby. The bands are made from colored tights for a soft, comfortable fit. Just add a cute embellishment! Go to the tutorial.
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FooDoodler Giveaway from University of Cookie
If you missed the FoodDoodler
giveaway on this blog, look! There’s another one hosted by the fabulous Bridget of Bake at 350 over at University of Cookie. Click HERE for details as well as a video tutorial.
TOO CUTE TO PASS UP
Recently, I’ve blogged about baby caps, baby booties, and cocoons. Here is a site that has ALL of these – plus the patterns are free! Too cute to pass up. I’m sure you’ll want to bookmark the site. Can’t wait … Read More...
Kasbah Scarf
Use your store bought earrings to create this beautiful Kasbah scarf.
Visit our sister site CraftBits.com for the full tutorial.
Life is Beachy
1. Beach Bum Soap by Bean Street Market
2. Life Is Beachy by Anhoki’s Place
3. Blue Heart with a Seahorse by SoFino
Silhouette Giveaway Reminder
We are giving you the chance to win your very own Silhouette Machine. For your chance to win enter here.
But hurry as the competition ends tomorrow.
1) AWESOME PROMO (running from August 1st through August 9th at midnight)
Here … Read More...
Tutorial: Swinging stash bag to catch household odds and ends
Mara from Kleio’s Belly shares a tutorial for making her swinging stash bag, a pretty bag designed to catch the random odds and ends that tend to accummulate throughout the house. The handles of the bag are stitched close together … Read More...
Tutorial: Belted girl’s top from a boy’s buttondown shirt
Ashley from Make It and Love It shows how she recreated a boy’s buttondown shirt into a pretty belted top for her daughter. This would be a great new top for back-to-school! Get the how-to.
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Tutorial: Felt kitty travel sewing kit
Sew4Home shows how to make this felt sewing kit with a super cute kitty applique on the front. His face is lightly stuffed and serves as a pincushion. The pins become his kitty whiskers. How cute is that?? Go to … Read More...
Knit Picks Is Starting A Spin-Along
Love to spin your own yarn? Whether you are a brand new spinner or have years of experience, this is a place to share your questions, stories, advice, and of course, pictures of your handspun yarn!
This is an ongoing … Read More...
Tutorial! Sideways Edge Cast On….
Free charts: Needlepoint
Three awesome designs, free from Cheryl Fall, needlepoint editor at About.com:
(1) Golden Desert Scarab
(2) Apple a Day
(3) August Daisies
Science Cookies and Science Cookie Cutters
Check out the latest installment of science-themed cookies and cakes HERE at Not So Humble Pie, including these made with these custom-made cutters from www.sciencecookiecutters.com. 
I know that readers have asked me where to find exactly these shapes … Read More...
Tutorial: Crown stitch
Old Frame to Pretty Tray
Kathy from Dandelions and Dust Bunnies took an old boring frame and dressed it up to make this lovely tray. I am constantly in awe at the creativity I come across daily, great job Kathy 🙂
See how she turned … Read More...
How to print an embroidery pattern from your computer
Get helpful hints about how to print electronic patterns at the proper size for stitching from DMCThread’s Blog. See the tute.
DMC Thread Blog no longer exists please check out DMC’s website directly.
Trash to Treasure Chair
Brittany over at Pretty Handy Girl shares an eye popping transformation of a chair many would have left for the garbage man. Watch as she drills and hammers it back into wonderfulness and shows you how to do it too.… Read More...
Topsy Turvy Shelves
This is so creative and yet so simple at the same time! Lori at Paisley Passions took two plain shelves, turned them upside down, added some feet and paint and created this cool basket station.
Get inspired by Lori’s topsy … Read More...
Technique: Stamping Resist with Smooch
(image by SCS and Lydia Fiedler)
Join Lydia Fiedler on the Splitcoast website and learn how to do a resist technique using Smooch inks. Click here for a step by step tutorial and video, very pretty!
-Heather
Clothesline Organization Station
Jami over at Freckled Laundry came up with a fun way to keep her family organized. She’ll show you how to take clothespins and a few other items to make this cute organizing station.
Get the tutorial for this organizing … Read More...