The largest independent craft review site since 2007
Knit-Along For A Cause!
LucyBug invites you to join in knitting something small in size, large in meaning!
Please join the LucyBug Knit-A-Long!
Burial clothing is needed for preemie and full term babies.
Knitting for little ones who’s time … Read More...
Jeanine in Canada of Italian Needlework blog shows us how to make Italian-style tassels to add the finishing touch to placemats or other handmade items. See the tute.
SharonB‘s free desktop calendar image for June is available now. Adorn your computer screen with SharonB’s awesome stitchery. Get the free image from Pin Tangle blog.
Needle artist Di van Niekerk has video tutorials on YouTube! WooHOO! Enjoy her technique for creating a silk-ribbon spider-web rose with a French knot center.
Many thanks to SharonB of Pin Tangle blog for pointing out this find.
Looking … Read More...
Tricia from Made by Me shares a tutorial for this easy credit card wallet with a cute little birdie applique. (She shares the template for the applique as well!) This would be such a fun project for a beginning sewist! … Read More...
Tenar continues her series of tutorials on needleweaving with a post about using an uneven warp, such as the circular warp in her example. See this post and the rest of the series on the Tenar’s Cave blog.
Christie from The Lemon Squeezy Shop and A Lemon Squeezy Home kicks off her Sewing Through the Decades challenge with a tutorial for making this double-layered scalloped twirly skirt for little girls. This week’s challenge is to sew something reminiscent … Read More...
Learn how to pickle cherry blossoms to keep them around a wee bit longer. Find the recipe HERE, courtesy of The New York Times Magazine.
[tags]cherry blossoms, pickling[/tags]
Jessi M of the blog Skittles Skates and Knits won Sweater Surgery
and
Melody B. of the blog Mel Designs is the winner of Green Craft Magazine.
[tags]recycled crafts winners[/tags]
Download this free 12×12 paper entitled Sweetie, by Jennifer of My Life, a Happy Circus. Click here to go to download.
Are you dreading the arrival of World Cup Football (Soccer) this summer? Céline has the answer for you! A month long online class teaching you new techniques, as well as providing you with inspiration like colour combinations and sketches. Class … Read More...
Flowery and Leafy Summer Scarf. Perfect accessory! The leaves and flowers are knitted, and the scarf itself is a simple lace pattern.
Go here to download this free pattern, from knitculture.com!
Visit Splicoast and let Birgit Edblom shows you how to make fantastic encaustic (melted wax) backgrounds, perfect for cards or even to make artwork to hang on your wall. Click here for her step by step tutorial and video.
-Heather
This week Write.Click.Scrapbook celebrates its one year anniversary. And the gifts are for you! Every day enter to win prizes from a great line up of sponsors. Click here to go to site.
…and a matching cocktail. Learn how to make the Elder Scottish Rose cocktail with frosted grape garnish HERE at Craftzine.com.
[tags]sugar, grapes, cocktails, garnish[/tags]
Jill from Homemade by Jill guest blogs over at luvinthemommyhood with a tutorial showing how to make these sweet little sock bunny softie rattles. Stripes or other fun designs on the socks make them colorful toys for little baby hands. … Read More...
By the time you read this published, I’ll have published my 500th blog post!! I’ve spent a few minutes looking back over some articles I’d written months or more ago and was amazed to realize that I didn’t even remember … Read More...
Craft Mummy just finished this lovely quilt using flannel for the front and back. It looks as if it can withstand the rough and tumble of the recipient – her son – plus keep him snug this winter. Go here… Read More...
Deanna from Just Deanna shows how to make a sleeping back for an 18″ doll. Velcro closures make it easy to put dolly to bed and to take her back out. Perfect for dolly sleepovers! (Can you guess what we … Read More...
Now, I’ve seen a lot of gorgeous croquembouche entries for The Daring Bakers’ challenge. But as I’ve firmly established, I can’t resist any sweet on a stick. Learn how to make these croquembouche pops HERE at Clumbsy Cookie.… Read More...
