Make Your Kitchen Your Medicine Cabinet
Prevention magazine posted some helpful natural remedies that you can find in your kitchen. Learn how to use salt to cure Athlete’s Foot, lemon to lighten age spots, Chamomile Tea to soften calluses and corns, and more!
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Make Your Kitchen Your Medicine Cabinet
Mademoiselle Chaos and Sister Infinity from ParaNoire share a free pattern on their blog for this lovely pair of panties. Use a silky fabric for a fancy look, or a printed knit for a more casual look. Get the free pattern from Mademoiselle Chaos & Sister Infinity . [photo from Mademoiselle Chaos & Sister Infinity ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , pattern , free , panties , lingerie …
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Free pattern: Make a pair of pretty panties
Slingin’ Baby shares a tutorial on her blog, Crafted by Mama , for making a Mei Tai style baby sling. This wrap around carrier allows you to keep baby snuggled close to your chest while having your hands free.
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Tutorial: Make a Mei Tai style baby sling
Cheri from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar got inspiration from the hardware store and made this t-shirt for her son. She used a combination of bleaching and stenciling to make the background design and the bike body, and then stitched down metal washers as the bike wheels. Who knew that metal washers could become bling for boys? She shares a tutorial…
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Tutorial: “Born to Ride” bicycle tee with washers for wheels
What child would not love this adorable Monster? I found it on Crafter-Holic , but then it tells it was created Making Felt monsters tutorial by Nina (www.ninana.com) , originaly posted on http://www.craftster.org Here is the tutorial for the stuffed felt monsters .
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Felt Monsters Tutorial
I had no idea what Japaese washi tape was until Elizabeth Goodman of To Be Charmed sent me a link to her first tutorial: decorating easter eggs with washi tape .
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The many amazing things you can do with Japanese Washi Tape
image by Nicole Ratzlaff and Spotted Canary If you are new to stamping you might here to term ” heat embossing” thrown around alot and you might be curious what it’s all about.
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Basic Stamping Technique: Heat Embossing
Sew4Home shows how to make an attractive fabric journal cover. Go to the tutorial . [photo from Sew4Home ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , fabric , journal , notebook , cover , organizer , office , desk
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Tutorial: Fabric journal cover
Here’s a great project to do before Easter Arrives…start now and you could see the results by Easter! Makes and Takes is the place to find this great project!
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Grow Easter Grass in Egg Carton
This book was so much fun to look at. Chock full of simple, quick to knit, gift projects for everyone on your list
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Giveaway! Nicky Epstein, Knitting a Kiss In Every Stitch.
Eileen Hull over at the blog Thoughts From My Studio came up with this great way to take last year’s date book and turn it into a record of her markers and punches and things she already has so when she hits the store she knows what she already has! I have to say I have most definitely run into this…
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How to recycle last year’s date book into a tool and supply journal
Look at this delicious new e-book from cheeky magpie ! She says it “features step by step instruction with concise photos and descriptions for making 5 ribbon and fabric flowers. This eBook also features instructions for making unique leaf styles and numerous project examples in a printable PDF file.” And it costs just US $7.50. The cover photos, alone, make me…
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New e-book: Ribbon & Fabric Flowers
all of my Polar Knit yarn scraps! From Annie Modesitt, this duster cover, available in both knit and crochet. The only question now is whether to knit it in green or orange first! http://www.anniemodesitt.com/patterns/dustup.pdf
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Finally A Use For…..
C&T Publishing is sharing instructions for embellishing paper with stitches, an excerpt from its publication Unforgettable Invitations by Melissa Collette Giles. According to C&T’s blog, it “includes instructions for machine sewing on paper, hand sewing on paper, hiding the back of your stitches, and sewing a whipstitch, as well as photos of several cute stitched invitations for inspiration.” Get the PDF file . …
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Get tips for stitching on paper
Oh My Crafts! has put together a number of assortments of Bazzill Cardstocks to match specific BasicGrey Collections. The one shown above coordinates with BasicGrey’s Green at Heart Collection . Click here to go to store.
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Bazzill Assortments to Match BasicGrey Collections
Susan Elliott of Plays with Needles has posted a rockin profile of “an Indian needle artist named Surayia Rahman who has spent her life helping hundreds of women escape from poverty in Bengal through needle and thread.” An amazing must-read for needlework lovers. See the post
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Profile: Surayia Rahman
Janet Granger of Dollshouse Embroidery Kits has followed through with her idea to produce tiny finishing kits for dollhouse furniture (the bases for her miniature needlework). She says, For years, it has bothered me that people who make miniature furniture have to buy large tins/jars/bottles of varnishes, waxes, and so on, when really you only need a tiny bit! The problem was that…
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Get tiny supplies for tiny furniture
How amazing is this simple craft? I just love the simplicity of it, but yet how elegant it is. Perfect for decorating a wall for spring, or just having fun with a spring craft! Home of Craft shows you how they did it!
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Blossoming Tissue Tree
We sent this press release out this morning. The grant involved was a small grant–$2,500–but it’s our grant and we love it to death. We hope it’s a precedent–for us and for Philadelphia!–l&r artblog , the Philadelphia region’s oldest and most complete source of online reviews, discussion and opinion on the visual arts, has been awarded a grant by the John S.
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Knight Foundation grant to artblog boosts Philadelphia art scene
Introducing Sean Coleman, fellow blogcatalog blogger known as Scole . Sean loves music! He writes about it on his blog called “pod”. Why did he call it pod?
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Finding My Tribe Online… Music Lovers!