Craft Gossip

Now that most of us are finding much of our information online, the phone book is becoming obsolete. In my home, we haven’t used one in several years, despite the fact that they keep showing up on our porch once … Read More...

Lola… again designed this purse she calls the Angel bag, and shares a tutorial so you can make one too.  Could this be your new spring purse?  Get the tutorial.

[tags]sewing, tutorial, bag, purse[/tag]

Unlike its brown paper counterpart, this lunch sack can be used again and again.  Pretty Penny shares the how-to in a tutorial.  Get the tute.

[via One Pretty Thing]

[sewing, tutorial, lunch, sack, bag, reusable[/tags]

Looking for more lunch … Read More...

paper-and-string celebrates her 500th blog post with a free pattern for these zippered pouches.  I love the cupcake appliques!  (They’re included in the free pattern.) Get the pattern.

[via craftzine]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, pouch, zipper, cupcake[/tags]

A child growing out of a favorite tee can border on the traumatic.  When this happend at a patchwork world‘s house, she turned the now-too-small fave tee into a fave pillow.  Genius!  Get the tutorial.

[tags]sewing, tutorial, t-shirt, … Read More...

Dress forms are supposed to be models of our own bodies, but rarely do our real bodies fit the mold (so to say) of the perfect proportions of a dress form.  kari posts on The {New New} Blog showing how … Read More...

Your inner geek will love this!  The Science Channel posts a video showing how professional dressforms are made.  View the video. 

[via BurdaStyle]

[tags]sewing, video, dressform[/tags]

There comes a time in every crocheter’s life when s/he is completely unmotivated.  Nothing looks interesting.  The yarn looks old.  Nobody NEEDS a gift.  No inspiration in sight.  What to do?

I find that a couple of things will get … Read More...