(1) Two sweet little charts from Les chroniques de Frimousse
(2) Pour toi, maman from Le blog de carmela
(3) Chevaux from Le blog de kali
(4) Trois ravissantes naïades from Les chroniques de Frimousse
(5) PAPAVERI from Blog di … Read More...
Giveaway: Five Mini Albums
Celine Navarro is giving away five mini albums on her blog, The Green Frog Studio. Enter before Sunday! Click here to go to giveaway.
Mini albums are great little projects for using up scraps, trying out new products and experimenting … Read More...
Sewing Pattern : Ice Cream Social sundress for little girls
Jess from Craftiness is Not Optional made this pretty sundress for her daughter’s upcoming 2nd birthday, and shares a tutorial showing how she did it. It’s name the Ice Cream Social dress, after the theme of her daughter’s party. Get … Read More...
Tutorial: Easy fabric postcards
Elizabeth from Twelve Crafts Till Christmas shows how to make these fun fabric postcards. Fusible interfacing gives them body. What a fun project for using up your scraps! Get the how-to.
[photo from Twelve Crafts Till Christmas]
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Free charts: Cross-stitch
(1) Semaine verte pour les lutins from Les chroniques de Frimousse
(2) Column One by Connie G. Barwick of About.com
(3) Pour ma maîtresse from Les grilles de Thiarlou
(4) Hyacinth from Happy Threads
(5) By the Sea from DMCThread’s … Read More...
Sweetie Pies lunch and quilt
While vacationing in Orange Beach Alabama USA this week my sister, daughter and I lunched at Sweetie Pies. We munched while admiring this pretty pie painting.
Can you see their famous pies at the counter? If you look just … Read More...
Free Online Class: Where Scrapbook Ideas Come From
Debbie Hodge will be holding a free 12-lesson class called Where Scrapbooking Ideas Come From. The class includes 1 intro lesson, 6 lessons on design, and 5 lessons on page parts, which will all be sent to you via … Read More...
DIY: Hair Care Products
The Natural Beauty Workshop recently posted links to some hair care products that had been submitted to their Flickr photo pool. This in turn lead me to their collection of hair care recipes, including ones for Rosemary Walnut Shampoo… Read More...
Sewing Tutorial: Make a summer halter with built-in bra
Just in time for the hot, muggy days of summer, The Sewing Dork shows how to make a halter top with a built-in bra. Brilliant!! Get the tutorial at her blog, Confessions of a Sewing Dork.
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Tutorial: Make a little girl’s tie-waist skirt from two t-shirts
Ashley from Make It and Love It shows how to turn two t-shirts into one awesome tie-waist skirt for a little girl. The Get the tute!
[photo from Make It and Love It]
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Tutorial: Shirred summer top from a man’s shirt
Jo from Just Jo shows how she made this cool shirred summer top for her daughter out of her husband’s old shirt. This would be a great project for all those lightweight rayon tropical print shirts. I love how to … Read More...
Tutorial: Ruffled flower corsage from wired ribbon
Calli from Make It Do guest blogs over at V and Co. with a tutorial showing how to make this ruffled flower corsage from wired ribbon. It takes 2-4 yards of ribbon to create this flower, but the effect of … Read More...
DIY: Cupcake Wrappers and Cakepop Carriers
I love these two projects from the Naughty Secretary Club for dressing up sweets: make your own cupcake wrappers and a DIY cakepop carrier. Find the how-tos for making cupcake wrappers HERE and the tutorial for crafting this cake … Read More...
Technique: Stamping with a Glue Pad
Using a glue pad to stamp with can add alot of new dimension to your stamped images, check out this informative tip and technique article on Spotted Canary to find out what you can do with glue pads.
-Heather
Fall Already? I Don’t Think So…
But even though we just got summer up here, the new fall fashions are out. It’s a bit of a slap in the face, enduring 8 months of winter, finally getting summer and then the fashion industry starts talking about … Read More...
Tutorial: Quilted iPad sleeve three ways
John Adams, AKA Quilt Dad, shares a tutorial over at the Moda Bake Shop for a trio of iPad sleeves. Each of the patchwork designs makes use of a Jelly Roll (precut fabrics). Go to the tutorial.
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Pink Popcorn Pomaders
Learn how to make these unique popcorn pomanders HERE at Not Quite Nigella. {spotted on Austin Wedding Blog via weddinggawker}
Looking for some amazing Popcorn flavors? Check out these yummy and amazing variety of popcorn flavored salts
Giveaway from HEN and Stitch ON Grrl
It’s time for another great giveaway from the Hand Embroidery Network: two tasty vintage books and several skeins of vintage floss. See Shanti’s blog post for the details.
Pac-Man Fever!
In honor of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, Google’s logo is a playable version of the game!
If you’d like to celebrate the little yellow guy’s 30 years, how about making these Pac-man themed earrings?
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Oshiwa Designs textile stamps are now available in the US
Rachel Biel of Rayela Art is now marketing hand-carved, unique textile stamps on behalf of Oshiwa Designs of Namibia, Africa. Learn more about this remarkable fair-trade company, Rachel’s relationship with them, and the extraordinary products that are now available in … Read More...