If your child makes a mess during art projects, check out this tutorial by Kristin from Lu Bird Baby. She shows how to refashion an adult t-shirt into a kid’s art apron. The stretchy t-shirt neck makes it easy … Read More...
Tutorial: Kid’s art apron from an adult t-shirt
If your child makes a mess during art projects, check out this tutorial by Kristin from Lu Bird Baby. She shows how to refashion an adult t-shirt into a kid’s art apron. The stretchy t-shirt neck makes it easy to put…
Tutorial: Sew a wallet from felt
Silje from We’re taking over the world and making it sooooo cute!!! shows how to make a quick wallet from felt. The edges of the felt won’t ravel, which means that you don’t have worry about finishing them. Go to … Read More...
Tutorial: Sew a wallet from felt
Silje from We’re taking over the world and making it sooooo cute!!! shows how to make a quick wallet from felt. The edges of the felt won’t ravel, which means that you don’t have worry about finishing them. Go to the tutorial.
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More Halloween (Already)
The Halloween stuff keeps rolling in online, and I can’t resist bombarding you with tricky finds. Expect many more to come, as people are awfully crafty this time o’ year. From Martha: candy pumpkin faces that double as candy jar lids. From…
Green Jewelry Symposium and Studio Techniques
Jeweler Christine Dhein will be at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane Australia from the 13-15th of November, as a guest speaker on Green Jewelry and running a workshop on green studio techniques.
The piece pictured here is made of recycled…
Knitting Daily’s Waist Shaping Calculator
And my question for you is…. Just where has this little wonder been all of my life?
Put in your gauge, hip measurements, waist measurements, bust measurements, and any additional measurements, and wah-lah! Instant calculations. Cool!
http://www.interweave.com/Waist-Shaping-Calculator/Curvy-Waist-Shaping.asp
Knitting Daily’s Waist Shaping Calculator
And my question for you is…. Just where has this little wonder been all of my life?
Put in your gauge, hip measurements, waist measurements, bust measurements, and any additional measurements, and wah-lah! Instant calculations. Cool!
http://www.interweave.com/Waist-Shaping-Calculator/Curvy-Waist-Shaping.asp
…Pattern and tutorial: Catnip fish
DuhBe says,
In honor of the two new kitties in my household, I decided to digitize a cat toy for the embroidery machine and give the file away as a free download. So if you have an embroidery machine, you can make…
Tutorial: Double Pocket Card
Check out this wonderful step by step tutorial by Beate Johns and learn how to make this gorgeous double pocket card.
-Heather
Tutorial: Double Pocket Card
image by Beate Johns and Splitcoast
Check out this wonderful step by step tutorial by Beate Johns and learn how to make this gorgeous double pocket card.
-Heather
Beautiful bath salts
This week’s inspiration are these lovely bath salts…
1. Bubbling Bath Salts – Cucumber, Raspberry, and Lavender, 2. Relaxation Bath Salts, 3. Moisturizing Bath Salts, 4. Botanical Bath Salts, 5. Sea Maid Bath Salts, 6. fizzlav3FIZZTASTIC, lavender bath fizzy salts, 7.…
The Hand Embroidery Network ramps up
Add the new Hand Embroidery Network blog to your reader right now! You’ll want to hear about all of the network’s new developments as they emerge. In brief,
Over the next few months there will be new developments of the Hand Embroidery…
Free vintage patterns from doe-c-doe
Check out this week’s vintage embroidery freebies from doe-c-doe. Rockin! Get the patterns.
Free vintage patterns from doe-c-doe
Check out this week’s vintage embroidery freebies from doe-c-doe. Rockin! Get the patterns.
Skull Quilt made from 2 inch squares of scrap fabric
Are you the type that saves even the tiniest pieces of fabric scraps because you don’t want to waste anything and you know some day a project will come along that you can use the scraps? Well me too. Here … Read More...
Skull Quilt made from 2 inch squares of scrap fabric
Are you the type that saves even the tiniest pieces of fabric scraps because you don’t want to waste anything and you know some day a project will come along that you can use the scraps? Well me too. Here…
Stitching with kids: Recycle your junk
Create a stitching project for your wee one from materials in your recycling bin. Brilliant! See This Little Project blog for the details.
Many thanks to Rachel Hobson of Craftzine.com for pointing out this find.
Scrap Alert: Online Class giveaway…
Enter to win a spot in Sherry Steveson’s new online class. The class is based on her “When life gives you lemons” book, and is about “making sweet pages from sour photos.” It’s a six week course that runs from…
Inspiration: meezi
Thanks to a link on floresita’s Things I’ve Made blog, I’ve just discovered the needlework of meezi. Simple, fresh, and lovely. Go see meezi’s flickr stream. And thanks again, floresita!