Some craft books worth your while to check out. Felted Jewelry: 20 Stylish Designs (Lark Jewelry Book) by Candie Cooper. Lark Books (April 6, 2010). This book showcases a variety of felting techniques to make innovative and unique jewelry pieces. With so many styles and techniques at work here you are sure to find something [...]
Do you have a copy of the Whip Up Mini Quilts book? Lets make the quilts from the book together. Post them on the whipup flickr group under the tag “Whip up mini quilts”. Here is what we are going to do – each week – say on a friday – for 6 weeks [more [...]
Its my birthday today and I am treating myself to some me time – yesterday I indulged in a yarn day with a friend and it was good! Feeling the birthday blues today – maybe its PMT, but kids fighting with each other and husband out of town, are sort of making me feel a [...]
Ina sent in this link from annekata who has made her own summer sandals and shows us how to go about it – very clever.
This bottle cosy is made completely from old t-shirts and some fleece that came from a rummage sale sweater. tutorial at sneezerville.
Hoping Whipup readers can help out with these two emails requesting crafty advice…
Do whipup readers have any ideas to help Ronan find that perfect crafty travel kit for his girlfriend?
I’m an expat living in Seoul, Korea right now teaching english. My girlfriend is travelling here soon to stay with me until i finish teaching here, then we’re going travelling around Asia for a while. She mentioned a while ago that, while we’re travelling, she would like to buy fabric and make crafts and possibly display/sell them online. I know NOTHING about fabric, making crafts, handmade things, knitting etc. NOTHING. However, i’d like to help especially since her birthday is next month. Could you possibly tell me what kind of tools/utensils people need when they’re hand-making crafts? Particularly people who are on-the-move? I think she has a particular interest in embroidery but also handmade goods in general. I was thinking of preparing or buying some sort of small “craft-making kit” for her.
Can you help Shahanaz find a specific craft?
I am looking for something that was featured on Whipup a while ago, but I cannot remember the name of the craft! It was a craft where you can take a shape, like a triangle for example, then create smaller triangle inside it, but off-setting the starting point equally on each side of the inner triangle to “rotate” the triangle inside, until your desired amount, and then using different coloured paper, sticking them down in regular order, to get a sort of “telescopic aperture” overall look at the end. Can anyone understand or figure out what I’m looking for?
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Sew Retro: 25 Vintage-Inspired Projects for the Modern Girl & A Stylish History of the Sewing Revolution
Lots of quick and simple sewing projects that have been inspired by vintage designs – The projects included in this book for me I have seen most of them elsewhere before – headbands, skirts, bags, simple quilts – although lovely you won’t be buying this book for the projects alone. However what this book does have that other sewing books don’t is lots of interesting historic sewing facts and glorious vintage sewing images – its worth it for this alone.
The images of 100 year old sewing machine advertisements and pattern packaging, as well as old photographs are just beautiful. There are mini essays on 19th century sewing practices and how these relate to us today – what we can learn from our womanly history. A bit about quilting and politics, and how fashions have changed – all accompanied by the imagery.
Throughout there are bios of modern day sewists who have made their mark and their business from sewing – such as Barbara Brackman and Betz White. This is more than a sewing pattern book – it makes for a lovely afternoon of reading and I know I will get a lot of inspiration from the historic imagery. Well done!
[check out the sew retro blog for more - bonus projects + ]
Sky magenta has a pattern to crochet her western style breakfast or this needle felted breakfast [thanks knit hacker]
Do you want to make your own crochet, knit or felt breakfast? here are some patterns… needle noodles has a cute crochet breakfast pattern available – complete with waffles, sausages, eggs and pancakes (for a small fee). Sky Magenta’s pattern (pictured above) is also a commercial pattern – super cute. Crochet eggs and toast is available for free from bean sprout creations … and here is a hilarous knit fry up breakfast beret pattern … Breakfast Time by Sally Byrne is a healthy option of cereal, milk and banana.
Or do you like making felt food – here is a fun breakfast made from felt – pattern available and includes the toaster [image seen here]. … here is a happy breakfast pattern – with croissant and some healthy options too …
