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Torn Edges for Paper Crafts
It’s easy to create a professional-looking torn-edge effect, to use when you’re scrapbooking or making greeting cards, gift tags, or other torn paper crafts — even some amazing art. 3 Easy Steps: 1....
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Mason-Dixon Knitting Book Chicks Sing Country, Too
This just in from Crafters News (Crown): You’ve knitted their colorful blankets, sassy nightgowns, adorable baby bibs, dishtowels, and more, but did you know that Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne of...
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Romantic Paper Fortune Teller
Do you remember those folded paper fortune-tellers from back in the old school yard? This romantic version of the origami toy is at Colloco Homeware & Gifts (UK). It’s both a toy and an art object...
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The Violent Crochet Visions of Patricia Waller
You think you’ve seen some truly disturbing crochet work over the years? If you haven’t checked out Patricia Waller’s works in crochet and other media, you ain’t seen what yarn + imagination is capable...
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Knit Your Own Dog
No dogs allowed at your digs? No worries! Thanks to British knitwear designers Sally Muir and Joanne Osborne — the clever chicks who created that famous bright red “black sheep” sweater sported by...
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Recycled Blue Jeans Quilt
Finding creative things to do with old blue jeans is a bit of a passion of mine. Think about all you’ve been through together, those great-fitting friendly old jeans and you — who can bear to just...
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6 Easy Bags to Sew or Crochet from Recycled T-Shirts
Want to keep the summer memories alive, but your fav souvenir T-shirt is past its “best before” date? With just a few basic sewing or crochet skills, you can “upcycle” that tee into a cool new purse or...
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How to Make Pop Bottle Flowers
Have you seen those fantasy faux-glass flowers made from recycled pop bottles? I mean the delicate fragile-looking twisty looking ones, like those the US-based artist Laura Astor) used to make. Like...
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Art Furniture from WW2 Mines
It just doesn’t get any more Steampunk than this! Benches, armchairs, tables, beds, wood-burning stoves like something pulled from a Jules Verne story — even a baby carriage! The mine furniture of Mati...
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So You Want to Knit a Shrug?
If you knit at all, or would like to know how, you’ll want to get in on Craftsy’s brand new free online knitting workshop, and make yourself a cute and cosy shrug. Shrug — you know — one of those...
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Driftwood Horses
Beachcombing, a few years back, my friend found a piece of driftwood that looked exactly like three horses’ heads rising from the waves. Very cool. But that’s nothing compared to the driftwood horses...
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Futurama Amigurumi
Futurama and amigurumi go together like… like mac and cheese… like Sheldon and Leonard… like a rose tatt and advanced calculus, baby! Just take a look at some of these (free) original crochet patterns...
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Herb Garden Graveyard
Forget the traditional parterre Herb Garden, if you can’t keep herbs alive! Goths, ghouls, and any gardeners with a sense of humour about their plant-growing failures will enjoy a decorative Herb...
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Natural Wood Knitting Needles
My sister insists on wooden knitting needles. As she’s a genius knitter, I bow to her expertise when she tells me that wood is the best choice for working with real wool. Lightweight yet strong,...
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Crazy Quilting Revisited
Are you familiar with the fabulously embellished and embroidered crazy quilts of years past? Much as I love the carefully pieced formaml patterns, there’s something about the free form expression that...
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Glass Mermaid Bead
Serena Smith, glass artist of Oregon, caught my eye on Etsy a few years ago with her gently rounded feminine figure beads, all earth mothers and goddesses, and floral beads that are tiny fantastical...
View ArticleDraftstopper Door Snakes
Not everyone likes snakes, I know that — but here’s a little fellow who has a lot of appeal — to the eye, the ankles, and the bank account. The stuffed fabric “door snake” is a character-driven version...
View ArticleWookie of Your Dreams
Lookee here... It's a heart-hefting Chewbacca, Bringer of the LOVE! This polymer-shaped, Sharpie-enhanced tribute to the Wookie of your dreams... [read more]
View ArticleLearn to Fold an Origami Money Heart
Folding paper is always fun, and folded paper is always a welcome gift. As a last-minute Valentine’s Day flourish, why not show you cared enough to go to all the effort of learning a few new tricks...
View ArticleGreater Love Hath No (Star Wars) Fan
Crafter whateverjames loves Star Wars. Loooooves it. He’s got the Star Wars requisite tattooes, sure — but we’re talking, like, name-your-kid-after-a-movie-character level of fandom. Yet, so great and...
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