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Week 4.
this weeks theme is ‘chic to classic’
I have 4 kits to give away this week - all kindly donated by Chronicle books.
1. The Knit it kit - 10 fun beginning knitting projects - for Kids

2. Stitch it kit - simple instructions and tools for 35 chic to classic embrodery projects - by Jenny Hart

3. The sunlight Print Kit - materials, techniques, and projects for homemade photography - by Paul Grivell

4. Knitting to go - 25 chic and easy patterns by Kris Percival

I won’t be reviewing these kits except to say that they look great. But I won’t be opening them before sending them to their new owners. However the knitting box cards have some great pattens in them, simple and interesting and practical. The portablity of the packet is the main thing, but I gave these to my mum to check out and she thought that they were packed too tight and because they were not numbered and do not have an index you could lose track of them easily. But as a knitter she thought they would be good for beginners and more advanced knitters.

Lovely pillow dolls cropping up all over lately, in embroidery, silkscreen, and other media.

crafty mcgee: embroidered April showers and deer

orangeyouglad on Craftster: screen-printed cat pillows with tutorial

Jess Hutch (from whom I stole this post’s title): embroidered Alice, dolly, kitten in mittens, and chihuahua

Tania: screen-printed birds and dolls

Loosetooth: painted and printed pillow dolls, cowgirl, and hedgehogs+squirrels (scroll down)

Wee Wonderfuls: embroidered brunette and redhead

Drawn had a recent spate of posts on recycled robots.
Gamma Ray bots, recycled materials and handpainted details.

neomatic kinetic robots made from recycled materials.

burrow burrow make animal robots from broken electronics