Madeline Tosh shares this lovely sock pattern. Link to pattern.
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September 2009
The crafty peeps over at Martha’s Craft Dept have come up with with a ripper here. Great card idea. Link to tutorial.
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Quilting on your home machine is not as easy as you might think. Your hands get sore, its difficult to maneuver a large quilt on your small sewing machine, the stitches can skip or jump, and getting nice even stitches is really quite tricky. Here are some online tutorials and explanations on how get quilting on your home machine.
Handmade by Alissa has a pebble free motion quilting tutorial and a basic how-to free motion quilt. [see image above]
Old barn co has a tutorial on stipple quilting – another stipple tutorial from camille
crazy mom quilts has a video tutorial on free motion quilting – also a grid quilting tutorial here.
Freda’s hive has a machine quilting tutorial.
Oh fransson has a no-nonsense guide to machine stipple quilting – and there is a free motion quilting tutorial on sew mama sew.
try out skill building panels and bloomin’ workshop machine quilting tips [see image above]
[and the fabulous tree quilt with all that free motion machine quilting is by Kellie Wulfsohn]
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Christine shows us how she turned a men’s shirt into this lovely peasant singlet top [via wardrobe refashion].
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Urban Paper: 26 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build
What a fantastic book – chock full of paper toy designs to cut out and make (with a DVD to print out more once the ones in the book are all used up.)
Along with the instructions and templates to make the toys in this book, there is a wonderful insight into the makers behind these ingenious folded paper toy designs. As well as the templates to make the designs featured in this book, there is also a section on how to design your own paper toys, and some background from the designers on their design process – as well as a fascinating pictorial process on the designs – from the initial drawing to the 3D mock up to making the flat design in illustrator.
With this book I discovered a new craft but also a whole slew of new designers and makers – as well as the ‘online paper toy phenomenon’ that I had only really glimpsed before. (check out moytoy, nice paper toys and custom paper toys – Matt Hawkins the authors own website has heap of freebie paper toy printable templates – rocket toy , Princess kitty, and this blank toy design are just a few.
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Spring has sprung down here in the south – baby birds are chirping (and falling from their nests), the blossoms are out and the soccer season has ended. Today I plan to garden and finish a quilt project I have on the go. Here are some pics of my new craft room – there are still shelves to install – hopefully tomorrow – but in the meantime I am so very very happy …
Here is a link to more pics of my house and the big renovation … if anyone is interested – some recent crafty stuff too.
Now at whipup this week we reviewed the girl mechanic - totally fun book for the indulgent parent with plenty of time and tools … I love the pocket stitch book – very handy … and we reviewed fashion geek – what a fun book … crochet bracelets are my fave project for the week.
sewing … what to do with charm packs … lovely linen apron how-to … sweet house pouch … make your own knickers … not into quilting but love patchwork? here are some fun project ideas for you … japanese sewing patterns online … kokeshi stuffie pattern … refashioned skirt how-to …
knitting … get ye to popknits for some fun knitting patterns … knit a posy pincushion …
cooking … print up some labels for some cooking gifties … make a fun lunchbag for no more boring lunches … and another school lunch bag – this one embroidered to beat those lunchtime blues … and the cookie jar gifts - I love this idea …
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Cathe scanned in a vintage quilt piece she had to create an awesome array of crafty goodness. One of the projects she shares is a card holder made using an inkjet tshirt transfer of the scanned image. Link to tutorial.
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WITH AN APPLE ON IT. Of course I was going to love this, linen and fruit and the colour red, what’s not to love? Link to tutorial.
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