Laurie of Old School Acres has written a great post on wool vs. acrylic felt. She includes photos of various types of felt sewn together and includes a bunch of useful links.

Betz White — maker of those super cute cupcake pincushions — has a fun tutorial for a flower brooch. It looks to be quick and easy and uses up little scraps of felt.

Kim at Dioramarama has a great tutorial for making a grocery bag dispenser. What a pretty way to hide those messy bags!

Where do you go to find out the latest knit-alongs that are happening now, or about to begin? Why not check out the 2007 Knit-Along and Swaps website. There is even an rss feed now so that you can subscribe and never miss out on any of the action!

It’s time to get your packages wrapped up! And here are some super cute fabric gift tags from the folks over at the purl bee. They have put together a set of posts to tell you just how to make your own.

More cute packaging and tag ideas can be found here:

• Heather Bailey’s yo-yo present toppers
• Natascha Rosenberg’s printable gift tags

Great Advent Calendar Tutorial over at My Minutia. Teresa takes a cookie sheet and some magnets and makes this super cute decoration for the holidays!

Great crochet tutorial over at Bella Dia for a Vintage Vertical Stripe Crocheted Blanket. I love that she uses big, clear pictures to show you exactly how to change colors when making stripes.

Heather Bailey has done it again — first there was the “My Favorite Knot” tutorial, then the Yo-yo’s and now she has published a wonderful tutorial online for Continuous Quilt Binding.

She has even formatted it into a handy, printable pdf, so that you can keep it with your sewing things and always have it when you need it!

Knitwear designer and awesome embroiderer, Kristin Nicholas, has a great duplicate stitch tutorial on her blog — Getting Stitched on the Farm.

Penelope Dullaghan of Illustration Friday fame is hosting a Black & Orange Halloween Contest this year.

Basically you need to create a work of art that is primarily black & orange and submit it before October 31st in order to participate. As she says on the website:

Illustration, fine art, photography, design, crafts and more are welcome, as long as the primary palette is black and orange.

There are already some entries up in the gallery, so go have a look around!