Colorful Christmas Cookies
Just three of many Christmas cookie recipes to come.
Bountiful embroidery giveaway
Bookwormbethie of Between the Pages blog is rockin the house for embroidery buffs with this giveaway: four Aunt Martha iron-on transfers, one Clover iron-on transfer, a package of two Aunt Martha flour-sack dish towels, a lightweight cotton tote bag, a … Read More...
Random Smattering of Stuff!
Today’s picks are a smattering of stuff I’ve found for you.
Really Warm Hat (and really easy) by Melissa Lynn of The Knitting School Dropout http://www.knittingschooldropout.com/patterns/Really%20Warm%20Hat.pdf
Free Patterns and just for fun is Craftzine: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/knitting/
And a really pretty, free … Read More...
Anniversary giveaway at Bee Square
Bee Square Fabrics is celebrating its first anniversary with an awesome giveaway: a US $50 gift certificate to the shop!!! Be sure to enter before December 8. See the rules.
Colour Books for Tiny Tots
Tonya over at Currently Crafting came up with the most adorable handmade books for her two year old twins.
She designed the pages using the Scrapblog website which she then printed and adhered to blank board books. Tonya explains how … Read More...
Hanukkah soap mold
Hanukkah begins at sundown December 21st. Make simple and beautiful melt and pour soap gifts with these soap molds from Milky Way! Package them in clear take out cartons or cellophane bags from Snowdrift Farm.
Mosaic Art Exhibit
Liz Cram’s Mosaic Chair was part of the Shards of Color Mosaic Exhibition 2008 in Australia, as highlighted by the Mosaic Art Source Blog. For more fantastic mosaic work, be sure to check out both of those links!
Dessert Mix Gifts
Make dessert mix gifts for the holidays with these tutorials.
Winner of The Funky Felter Nuno Felted Scarflette Contest!
Shalana, the Funky Felter says: There were so many lovely comments that she decided to use www.random.org to pick the winner because I just couldn’t decide and also to be completely fair about it. The program there randomly chose the … Read More...
Lucykate Crafts is holding Felted Christmas Robin Tutorial and (Giveaway)
I ran across this delightful site called “LuckykateCrafs” out of the UK run by Amy Adams a craft designer & maker and offers very nicely laid out clear tutorials. This tutorial is also a giveaway and maybe you would like … Read More...
Tutorial: A Christmas tree that lights up!
Combine your machine-embroidery skills with some simple holiday hardware to produce this Christmas tree wall-hanging that actually lights up! Debbie Hicks shows us how on SWAKembroidery.com. See the tute.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out … Read More...
Apple Pie All Geeked Up
Make a fun square apple pie.
Free chart: Christmas candy cane
This cheerful holiday motif by Christine-Ann Martin is free from The Chart Shop at Cross-stitching.com and comes with the suggestion to stitch it on a gift tag. Great idea! Get the chart.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check … Read More...
Free CQ block set from Victoriana
Victoriana Quilt Designs is offering the 2008 Crazy Quilting Monthly Memories blocks as a complete set through the end of December. The patterns are available free as a thank you to site visitors. Get the patterns now. And many … Read More...
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Isn’t this adorable! It’s an advent Calendar made from mini hats and mittens. Now, before you say, “Duh, Terrye, isn’t that a bit obvious”, let me say this.
No. To me it wasn’t. I had to read the description. … Read More...
Free Online Class from My Creative Classroom
Want to test drive My Creative Classroom for free? Everyday Moodlings is a free, ongoing course instructed by the MCC founder, Jeri’ Parks. At least twice a month we will add new projects, techniques and creative prompts. The official start… Read More...
Free Online Class from My Creative Classroom
Want to test drive My Creative Classroom for free? Everyday Moodlings is a free, ongoing course instructed by the MCC founder, Jeri’ Parks. At least twice a month we will add new projects, techniques and creative prompts. The official start… Read More...
12 Days of Christmas with Tim Holtz
This year Tim Holtz is again hosting his 12 Tags of Christmas. Every day for 12 days he posts a technique with full instructions. Plus he is doing a giveaway each of the 12 days! Drop on by and check … Read More...
Free pattern: Muslin tags
Crafty Stitcher is sharing the patterns and advice for making these adorable muslin tags. Get the patterns.
And many thanks to Patty of Pip Stitch for the heads-up!
The Christmas Queen. In glass.
I can’t believe it’s December already. And you know what December means. It’s officially time to get into the holiday blogging spirit. So here goes…
Deanna Chase presents her Christmas Queen. Read her blog and see what happens when … Read More...