March 2009

Welcome to March – and some seasonal changes are in the air. Whipup has undergone lots of changes – only a few are visible from the viewers end, I have had some IT help tweaking the design and making the site less volatile when changes are made. How do you like the feature section at the top of the page? This is where some stories will be able to stay for a little longer – competitions and features and roundups will appear.

Last week on whipup I was drooling over spoonflower fabric designs – and this week my fabric designs arrived in the mail. I did a few different designs – the most successful I thought were the kids drawings – together we scanned in a few of their drawings and played around with colour and flipping them around and tiling them in photoshop – here are our results. I also have been having fun with vintage maps – and like the outcomes of these too.

The results of last weeks fabric giveaway are in and the two winners of $25 voucher from this and that from Japan etsy store are Jesselyn and Monica T – winners have been contacted via email – thank you all for entering – our current competition is a chance to win a copy of the latest mixtape zine – enter here.

Did you see the grumpasaurus knitting pattern and the video tutorial on Norwegian Purl or how to do french knots – we also featured a fun shamrock knitted hat and the mother bear knitted bears project. Make sure you get yourself some craft therapy if you feeling edgy. Did you miss the sew, mama, sew fat quarter month.

Lots more tutorials of course as usual here are just a few: hand carved stamp tutorial – there is a whole series so be sure to check back with this one : the modern sampler quilt along looks fantastic – and with a regular update and very detailed tutorial this is another one to keep checking back in on : buttercup bag free pattern : homemade goodie bags : flower quilting block patterns.

So much to do – get craftin’

Thank you to Nicole and happy crafting everyone!

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