I first found Nicola Brown on Ravelry and fell-in-love with her vessels and really, all of her nuno felting. Nicola is from South East Ireland. If you go to her flickr slideshow you will find how diverse Nicola’s talents are … Read More...
Knitting Stuff Giveaway!
Part of cleaning out my various knitting baskets/boxes/rooms/stashes… involves finding things that I currently have no use for. A lot of these things are new, some slightly used, none will be damaged. They may or may not include books, patterns, … Read More...
Jillibean Soup Projects
Earlier this month I wrote about JilliBean Soup, a new scrapbook manufacturer. Jill, the owner was kind enough to send me some of her products to play with. They don’t disappoint! I love them even more in person! … Read More...
There’s Still Time! Last Minute Food Gifts
Make and package these food gifts for last minute Christmas ideas.
Etsy Promotional Tools – OwnTheHour
There are so many cool and useful promotional third party tools for Etsy cropping up it’s hard to keep up!
Own The Hour (http://etsy.ownthehour.com/) is the most recent one I’ve noticed.
The Own The Hour home page is a 12 … Read More...
OUTTA TIME? LAST MINUTE CROCHET CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!
http://www.orble.com/free-lastminute-christmas-coaster-crochet-pattern/ (There’s a free pattern for this at the linked site.) NOTE – THIS LINK DOESN’T WORK PROPERLY – BUT WILL IF YOU CUT AND PASTE IT INTO YOUR BROWSER’S ADDRESS BAR. SORRY!
Looking for more Christmas themed Crochet Patterns? … Read More...
Monster Creations
I am sure we all turn into a bit of a monster at Christmas time right?
I came across this scary delightful amazing character on flickr but you can check out the website
Mealy Monster Land for more information, inspiration … Read More...
Grandma’s apple pie lip balm recipe
Try this yummy recipe to make apple pie scented lip balm!
If you need lip balm tins or tubes, Brambleberry is always a great resource for packaging.
RECYCLE THOSE CROCHET MISTAKES
Check out this website:
http://makingdowiththenotsonew.blogspot.com/search/label/wool%20sweaters
Now, she’s just recycling wool sweaters into very useful and attractive projects, but she’s giving me more ideas. I’ve blogged on this topic before. You KNOW how I love the whole notion of recycling crafts. … Read More...
Knitting Project Monogamy
This has to end. I’m declaring to an end to this. What is “this”? The random, willy-nilly casting on of new projects just because I have that yarn in my stash that would be wonderful knit into this, that or … Read More...
Switchcraft giveaway from Burdastyle
Today’s giveaway from BurdaStyle is a copy of the book, Switch Craft: Battery Powered Crafts to Make and Sew. This book includes instructions to make 20 projects that integrate technology into your sewing. To enter, all you have to do … Read More...
Toy Displays As Decoration
Who thought displaying your collections could be considered crafty? I didn’t, but crafting your space is a very big part of being someone who lives their every day in a crafty way. So displaying your collections (in this case, toy … Read More...
Men after my own heart
Mimi Kirchner‘s tattooed men dolls make me smile and smile and smile. The concept of using toiles to represent tattoos is genius. And the dolls have the Mimi hallmarks of impeccable workmanship combined with irresistable touchability. Mom, if you’re … Read More...
Cool Down this Christmas
Cool down with Christmas recipes for those in the Southern hemisphere.
Tutorial: Needlepoint plaid
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint blog has posted an excellent explanation of how to create plaid with needlepoint stitches. The result seems almost like magic! See the post.
More last minute ideas
Caroline and Joy from the Studio Calico Design team came up with a huge list of last minute projects.
There’s an adorable paper leaf wreath with instructions on the Chatterbox Blog
Denise LaBorde shows a great idea for Holiday Table … Read More...
Wine Box Lamps
In keeping with the reuse of wine theme, you can take that box your wine (or higher end liqour) came in and turn it into a lamp! (source)
Free Slipper Pattern
Well I looked all over the net and couldn’t find what I needed. So, I did what any crazed idiot sane responsible knitter would do. I took a pattern I liked and adapted it.
These slippers: 
are from Knitting At … Read More...
Tutorial: Quick stitched gift tags
Look what Sublime Stitching is sharing! Patterns and a tutorial for quick hand-stitched gift tags. The perfect final touch to your handcrafted Christmas gift! See the tute.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out on Etsy or … Read More...
Concert Ticket Coasters
Looking for a way to preserve the memories of all those concerts you saw in your youth? Grab all those ticket stubs and follow this tutorial for turning them into coasters. Also works great with movie ticket stubs, theater performance … Read More...