Darling Petunia shows how to make these lovable hedgehog softies. Their bodies are made from dollar store car wash mitts. Brilliant! Get the how-to.
Tutorial: Hedgehog softies from car wash mitt
Darling Petunia shows how to make these lovable hedgehog softies. Their bodies are made from dollar store car wash mitts. Brilliant! Get the how-to.
Animal Behavior for redwork
Image from Grandma's Attic
Look what I found at Grandma’s Attic online store.
Product description:
These darling redwork designs feature animals at play. There are 10 9″ blocks in the book–all of them are absolutely adorable, original artwork by Julie Mainwaring. They stitch up quick…
Tutorial: Reusable produce bag
Find out how to make a reusable produce bag with a tutorial from The Sproutz Store Blog. They’re made from tulle, which means when the produce gets weighed, you won’t be paying for the weight of your bag. Go to … Read More...
Tutorial: Reusable produce bag
Find out how to make a reusable produce bag with a tutorial from The Sproutz Store Blog. They’re made from tulle, which means when the produce gets weighed, you won’t be paying for the weight of your bag. Go to…
Tutorial: Sew a luggage handle cover
Set your luggage apart from all the other look-alike suitcases with a handle cover made from bright fabric, like this one from Little Birdie Secrets. Put one on your suitcase and you’ll never again pull the wrong bag from the baggage…
New Villainess goods
Villainess has just released even more luscious products, to my delight. My favorite is the Dad Pack, just in time for Father’s Day. The Dad Pack is stocked with manly scented soaps and unscented Whipped! body cream. Also looking … Read More...
New Villainess goods
Villainess has just released even more luscious products, to my delight. My favorite is the Dad Pack, just in time for Father’s Day. The Dad Pack is stocked with manly scented soaps and unscented Whipped! body cream. Also looking good…
Digital Scrapbooking Experience – Utah
A new kind of event scrapbooking event is about to open for registration on June 3. DSE, or Digital Scrapbooking Experience, is a two-day, three-night conference aimed at teaching you about the art and science of digital scrapbooking, brought to you…
And the winner is….
Using the random number generator at random.org, commenter number 9 was selected! Congratulations Kay, I’ll be contacting you shortly to get your mailing details!
Thanks to the rest of you that commented - there are some interesting projects brewing out there…
A reader reports on Mac-based machine embroidery
Reader Matthias Arndt writes:
Embroidery software for Apple Macintosh computers is still rare, but things are changing. Relatively new are two plugins to view and search embroidery designs with Mac OS X 10.5: StitchBuddy-QL shows designs as icons in the Finder and allows a…
Free Father’s Day cross-stitch
Does this guy look like your husband…dad…grandpa? If so, you still have time to stitch him onto a tie or greeting card for Father’s Day. The chart — designed by Jenny Barton — is free from The Chart Shop at … Read More...
Free Father’s Day cross-stitch
Does this guy look like your husband…dad…grandpa? If so, you still have time to stitch him onto a tie or greeting card for Father’s Day. The chart — designed by Jenny Barton — is free from The Chart Shop at Cross-stitching.com. Get…
New man-themed clip art from Sharon Bennett
Sharon Bennett writes:
My latest Craft template book is just out and available from Amazon - just in time for Fathers day projects =) packed with over 400 templates to use as a guide in general crafting.
I can definitely imagine stitched versions…
Silk ribbon giveaway
Don’t miss Helen Gibb‘s latest giveaway. She says,
… Read More...Anyone who purchases a Ribbon Catalog during the months of June, July and August will be automatically placed in a drawing to win $25 in free ribbons. The winner
Silk ribbon giveaway
Don’t miss Helen Gibb’s latest giveaway. She says,
Anyone who purchases a Ribbon Catalog during the months of June, July and August will be automatically placed in a drawing to win $25 in free ribbons. The winner of the drawing will be…
Yarnbowl Challenge….
Serendipity Needleworks in Tuscaloosa, AL has come up with a way to use college rivalries to help infants.
The owner, Ellen Johnson, challenges other nearby Yarn Shops to knit and crochet caps for infants. So far this program has netted 3,284…
Tutorial: Indian lunch bag
Leena of Creativeinstincts blog tells us a bit about Indian customs and shows us how to create a bag for an Indian-style lunch — complete with a sweet hand-embroidered decorative band. Now that’s lunching in style. See the tute.
Tutorial: Puzzle patches baby bib
Image from the object project
The folks at the object project had this to say about the puzzle bib,
These puzzle patches are so simple and fun to make, you won’t be able to stop at just one!
Kind of like me and potato chips!…
Maker Faire’s Winner of The Editor’s Choice Award-Craftside-Turns Scraps into Swag
TreeHugger shares a great post about how the Craftside people turned the paper that gets printed in the beginnig of the printing process while callibrating the ink and colors into Makeready Journals that they gave away at this past weekend’s … Read More...