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Check out this free pattern from Connecting Threads.
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This quilt offers a great way to show off a larger scale 1930’s or 1940’s print between the churn dashes. The triangles in the border add visual interest.
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Find out how to make this small fabric basket from Free Spirit Fabrics. It’s just the right size to hold a stack of paper napkins. Get the tutorial.
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See how easy circles can be using raw-edge appliqué.
See closeup of appliqued circles below.
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Go to Connecting Threads and download free pattern Circular Logic.
Rostitchery shares a tutorial for an “apron cheat.” She started with a skirt she no longer wears and cut it apart into the pieces for the apron. Get the tutorial.
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Rostitchery shares a tutorial for an “apron cheat.” She started with a skirt she no longer wears and cut it apart into the pieces for the apron. Get the tutorial.
Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, apron, quick, refashion, cheat, skirt
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Keep the scratches off your glasses with this eyeglass case. Amazing Mae shares a tutorial for making one. Get the how-to.
Nikola went to the farm to see the animals up close, but she so a group of women making fuzzy hats and poking crazy needles into the fluffy pieces of fiber. She relates that she almost knocked everyone over to … Read More...
Nikola went to the farm to see the animals up close, but she so a group of women making fuzzy hats and poking crazy needles into the fluffy pieces of fiber. She relates that she almost knocked everyone over…
Get the 411 on electroforming by none other than Kate Fowle herself. This article in the Lapidary Journal tells you everything that you need to know to create your own electroforming set up as well as how to prepare your … Read More...
Get the 411 on electroforming by none other than Kate Fowle herself. This article in the Lapidary Journal tells you everything that you need to know to create your own electroforming set up as well as how to prepare your beads for…
Avocado Body Butter by Janice Cox
from Soap Nuts
Ingredients
1/4 cup grated cocoa butter
1 TBS. coconut oil
2 TBS. sesame oil
1 TBS. avocado
1 TbS. grated beeswax
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in an ovenproof glass container.
Place the container into a 1 - 2 ” H2O bath.…
Fabric on Demand is a new web site that is doing fabric printing. You can design your fabric, upload your image and then choose from 5 different fabric choices:
» 100% Cotton
» Poly / Cotton Broadcloth (35% cotton/65% poly)
» Fleece
» Cotton Duck
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SKYDYES offers hand painted cottons and silks that is wonderful to use in art or traditional style quilting projects. You can either purchase this artful fabric in their online store, or if you want to paint your own fabrics, Mickey … Read More...
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SKYDYES offers hand painted cottons and silks that is wonderful to use in art or traditional style quilting projects. You can either purchase this artful fabric in their online store, or if you want to paint your own fabrics, Mickey Lawler shows…
Kirsty Neale and Julie Kirk have come together to start The Copy and Paste Project. From the blog:
*COPY*: There’s a world of perfectly ingenious mind-stirring quotations, lyrics, conversations, designs, photographs, bits, pieces and miscellaneous bobs out there … and we…
Angi over at Scrappin Out Loud is giving away a stash of goodies to celebrate her birthday. Get all the details on entering on her blog.
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Tunisian crochet is not my favorite. It seems overly repetitive to me – just plain boring. Kinda like I feel about working anything in all single crochets. However, there are times when the particular characteristics of Tunisian are a real … Read More...
Tunisian crochet is not my favorite. It seems overly repetitive to me - just plain boring. Kinda like I feel about working anything in all single crochets. However, there are times when the particular characteristics of tunisian are a real…
Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of Craft Sanity shows how to make your own dish scrubbies. All it takes is some tulle and a bit of string. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Get the tutorial.
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Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of Craft Sanity shows how to make your own dish scrubbies. All it takes is some tulle and a bit of string. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Get the tutorial.
Technorati Tags: sewing, tutorial, dish, scrubbie, scrubber, tulle
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