I totally agree with this list. I have a knee lift and it makes quilting so much easier, leaves your hands free! Link to list, via TrueUp.
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September 2009
Kristel wrote in to tell us about how easy it is to make this sweet felt garland.
1. Cut leaf shapes out of different colored wool felt
2. Sew them together chain style with your sewing machine. This means sewing through each leaf and continue sewing, don’t lift the foot and don’t cut the thread, add another leaf shape and continue in this way until you have a whole chain of sewn leaves.
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A tawashi is a Japanese traditional scrubbing brush. Salihan is offering this cute crocheted Pear Tawashi pattern.
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A project from one of my favourite books on crafting with felt, Felt Furnishings
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Artful Paper Dolls: New Ways to Play with a Traditional Form
This book is lovely and full of fabulous ideas and techniques on how to make a variety of paper dolls and paper doll books and accessories for both adults and kids. Using basic techniques such as collage and paper folding you can make a variety of themed dolls for everyday play or as a keepsake.
Intermingled with historical paper doll references, the projects are not just for little girls, with boy dolls and manly dolls and more precious adult dolls for memory keeping and scrapbooking.
Just some of the delightful projects in here include a doll board book – hard cover book in the shape of a doll; anatomical flip book doll – with layered anatomical illustrations revealing layers of the human internal system; scrap book filled with envelopes and ephemera; cute dog doll with its own little dog house and historical costumes to fit a basic joined doll.
At the back you will find some templates – I was hoping for more and I also thought the techniques section was a little thin – however these points not withstanding – this is a lovely creative book for paper and doll lovers.
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come join whipup at flickr in our new flickr group
While you are there - enter our 2010 calendar comp - upload a fabulous photo of your amazing handcrafted creation – give it a tag so we know you are entering the comp – “whipupcalendar2010″
What will you win – there will be 13 winning entries – one for each month and one for the cover. Each winner will get profiled on whipup – and will get their gorgeous picture and website published on our 2010 annual whipup calendar.
Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges to be announced later.
Entries close 1 October to upload your image. So get photographing your gorgeous craftyness. Winners will be chosen and announced during early October and the Calendar will be available late October.
Images can be pics of your creation in an artistic arrangement, or in practical use – see our 2009 calendar for some ideas of photo quality and content.
You must have a hi-res image (10mb) available if your photo is chosen to be included in the calendar.
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I love this – such a statement - tutorial for this gorgeous fabric poppy at grosgrain.
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Edda Lilja and her 52 hat project is now up to week 37 and the hats are fantastic – a little quirky and quite original. Here is her website where you can see all the hat – just a few of my faves are pictured below.
The pattern for that cute elf/fairy hat is available here for a small fee
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September is National Sewing Month, established in 1982 to recognize the importance of home sewing to our nation. To celebrate, the National Sewing Month website is holding a contest with the theme of “reuse, remake, restyle”.
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