this months kids craft weekly newsletter has some fantastic ways for kids to get into printing.

Come on! Enough with the awesome prints and now Yasmine gives us matryoshka notepaper AND labels to download and print. ACK!!! Link.

Nicky Hepburn, Cuttlefish, Seed Pods, Galls II, Bark, 2007, cuttlefish, found seed pods, steel, tree bark. From the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Walk, on show at Burnie Regional Gallery until 14 September. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Terence Bogue.

“Walk presents the work of eight Australian artists – Peter Corbett, Vicki Couzens, Nicky Hepburn, Brian Laurence, Jan Learmonth, Carmel Wallace, Ilka White and John Wolseley. At the heart of this exhibition is a 250 kilometre trek along the Great South West Walk, an increasingly endangered natural environment cradled in the far south-west corner of Victoria. For three weeks, this group of artists walked through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of an ever-shifting environment.”

“Art expressing its relation to land, this exhibition is an invitation to discover what new meanings we are making of this place – to figure our relationship to the land, understand how the connections between inhabitant and eco-system may be meaningfully re-established.”

Walk is a NETS Victoria touring exhibition that features around 40 works of contemporary art, craft, sound and video art. The show tours to Burnie Regional Gallery (TAS) 15 August 2008 – 14 September 2008, Riddoch Art Gallery (SA) 18 October 2008 – 30 November 2008, Flinders University Art Museum (SA) 6 February 2009 – 20 March 2009 and Bunbury Regional Art Galleries (WA) 2 May – 16 June 2009

chris sent me this link to a video and instructions on how to make this extremely cool bird house.

Aaack! As said over at Craft:: “why didn’t I think of this!?”. Great idea, adhere cork or foam sheet to your rolling pin (after you’ve cut out your pattern of course), ink up and roll away to create your own wrapping paper! Link, via Craft:.

Get cracking and enter! Deadline, 18 September. Link.

There’s also a give-away for a half-page color ad to the website that refers the most visitors to venuszine between 1 September to 15 October. Link.

I admit I love the idea of the cheater print and Denyse just does it so well in her new County Fair range. Pink Chalk Studio has designed a quilt using the cheater and offers it as a free download. Link. I’ve spied in her flickr pages how she bastes the 3 layers together. Link.

If you head on over to her store she has kits available too.

Help assist with Stephanie and Christian Nielson’s recovery from a tragic plane crash. Link.

On Saturday, August 16, 2008, Stephanie Nielson was in a plane crash with her husband, Christian Nielson, and his flight instructor, Doug Kinnear, near St. Johns, Arizona. Doug Kinnear passed away soon after arriving at the Maricopa County Hospital.

Christian & Stephanie remain in critical condition at Maricopa Burn Center. Christian has sustained burns on over 30% of his body. His wife Stephanie’s body was burned over 80%.

thank you Kate for sending in this link to a pattern by Alicia for crochet safety cones.

The New Crewel: Exquisite Designs in Contemporary Embroidery by Katherine Shaughnessy Lark Books (November 1, 2005)

Artist and master embroiderer, Katherine Shaughnessy, is pushing embroidery into the 21st century. Without being able to find any modern how-to books on embroidery, an unsatisfied Shaughnessy set out to make one herself. With 30 practice designs with easy instructions for any new beginner embroidery enthusiast, crewel is a great intro into the sewing and craft worlds. Since crewel has no counting, grids, or cross stitch technicalities, this embroidery is just fun hip design from the point of view of a true connoisseur.

I particularly enjoy the layout and organization of the book. Shaughnessy, begins with a brief history of crewel and covers all the basic of the craft from thread, to purpose to origins. The majority of the book is filled with short how-to’s for specific designs like the Tulip Tops, Snow Shoes and Chainlink Pink. It is apparent throughout the book just how dedicated Shaughnessy is to the craft and how in awe she is of the background and traditions as well as giddy and excited about redefining this grandma past time. An inspiring work for the inspired crafter.

About the author: Kendra is a native southerner from Atlanta, Georgia and instinctive writer and crafter. She’s been working with threadbanger since August 2007 and is still at it.

We are looking for articles and tutorials to fit within the months themes - see monthly themes below - but also timely articles outside of these themes will be considered, such as exhibition and pattern reviews, craft memes, fun, frivolous and extreme ideas, etc that cannot wait and do not fit within the theme.

Submissions now being accepted for September, October & November 2008

September: knitting (experiments with freestyle knitting, knitting clubs, knitting in public, knitting ideas, patterns and stories

October: hand stitching: embroidery, cross stitch, quilting … contemporary and traditional

November: recycled: refashioning, re-using, up-cycling - recycling, paper/cloth/yarn/plastic - tutorials, ideas, stories

Submissions must be new — not previously published in another mag or site or on your own website or blog. Once posted on Whip Up - of course you are welcome to link to the article with an image. And after a month you are free to do as you wish with the tutorial or article, which includes submitting it elsewhere or self publishing.

Read the guidelines here on how to submit.

Sweet hair clips. Link

Great series over at Ali Edwards.

Minibooks, Sharing Your Story, Supplies. Link.

Design, Inspiration, Finding Your Style. Link.

Events, Teaching, Internet, Creating Keepsakes, Misc. Link.

Hybrid, Digital, Photoshop. Link.

Excess, Feeling Behind/Overwhelmed, Purging/Donating Supplies. Link. (I don’t think this one applies just to scrapbookers!)

Organization + Storage, Work + Life + Finding Time. Link.

Scrapbooking Baby, Getting Started/Design Teams, Telling Your Story. Link.

I don’t have any small humans, just fur kids, still, this online magazine appeals to my inner child, especially the diy dress-up section. Kokeshi dress-up!!
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Great tutorial. Link. There’s also a bunch of sweet bracelet tutorials at Making Friends. Link.

Sweetly illustrated and hand drawn how-to. Link

Lizzy House brings us a block printing tutorial. Link