Where can you purchase?

Get your calendar from Redbubble - for Australians + rest of the world – very reasonable postage to Europe, Asian, South America. RedBubble calendars are satin-coated prints on high quality art paper. They’re A3 size (that’s 297×420mm, or 11.69×16.54″).

Get your calendar from lulu - for US residents (postage to rest of the world is a little expensive – but the calendar is a little less expensive). Lulu standard calendar is 11″ x 17″ (open) on gloss paper.

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2010 whipup calendar comp. You can check out all the entries here.

Thank you also to our fabulous judges:

Nicole of craftapalooza and also regular contributor to whipup
Justine of the wonderful crafty zine: Mixtape zine
Jan from the fabulous design blog: poppytalk
Kate of wildslings and occasional book reviewer at whipup
Lisa Solomon – fabulous artist: Lisa Solomon
Pip author and crafty entrepreneur: meet me at mikes
Sandra from her zen art and whose viking softie was our cover image from last years calendar
Jonathan – brother, IT helper at whipup, the dude behind the new fabulous easy ad system: igloo

Who are the participants:
COVER: Susan Chi (Tada’s Revolution), Grand Theft Auto, 2009. Characters crocheted with yarn.
www.tadasrevolution.com/

JANUARY: Margaret Oomen, Homage to sea sew, 2009. Sea stones & wood slice covered with handmade crocheted lace, vintage thimbles, sea glass, feathers, ferns & moss.
www.resurrectionfern.typepad.com

FEBRUARY: Fiona Lech, Hexagon pincushion, 2009. Machine sewn & hand finished using new & vintage fabrics & buttons.
www.dearfii.com

MARCH: Tania Patritti (Ninon), The Cherrybomb Family, 2009. Made with new & recycled fabric, filled with polyfil.
www.superninon.blogspot.com

APRIL: Shannah Burton, Hare, 2009. Made with wool felt, machine stitched & hand embroidered.
www.daskaninchen.etsy.com

MAY: Amy Bethune, Lola (the pet pouch project), 2009. Made with fabric & velcro, machine sewn. Find the diy project.
www.theb-line.blogspot.com

JUNE: Eva Monleón (Misako Mimoko), Doli Bank Robber, 2009. Made with vintage fabrics, stuffed with polyfill with a hand embroidered face.
www.misakomimoko.com

JULY: Laura Amiss, Little legs, 2009. Made with free hand machine embroidery (cotton, muslin, felt & lace).
www.lauraamiss.etsy.com

AUGUST: Maya Donenfeld, Summer Dreams, 2008. Made with vintage pillow cases & grosgrain ribbon.
www.mayamade.com

SEPTEMBER: Malka Dubrawsky, Big Nate Quilt, 2009. Made with hand dyed & commercial fabric, machine pieced & machine quilted.
www.stitchindye.com

OCTOBER: Ann Wood, Chillingworth, (Owl in progress), 2009. Made from a Victorian mourning bodice.
www.annwood.net/blog + www.annwoodhandmade.com

NOVEMBER: Blair Stocker, Morning Mitts (in progress), 2008. Morning Mitts from ‘The Knitters Book of Yarn’, using Noro Kureyon
www.blairpeter.typepad.com

DECEMBER: Maritza Soto (Soto softies), Love is in the air, 2008. Made with wool felt, fabric, polyfil, plastic safety eyes & embroidery floss.
www.sotosofties.blogspot.com

20% discount on all advertising at whipup until 1 October with this coupon code “WhipupSeptember253″. Claim your coupon during the advertising booking process – just click on the ‘advertise here’ button on the top right of the sidebar to get started.

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]

Wish Kath a Happy Birthday! She’s the driving force behind whipup and a hard workin’ lady. Hugs to you Kath.

Plush you: Fiber Arctic opened 12 June, Schmancy’s Arctic fiber artists – with an environmental theme – fiber and plush artists (using the delicate art of embroidery and needle felting) look at the effects waste in our society has had on the Arctic.

Artists include Jenny Hart, Vivienne Strauss, Coco Howard, Moxie, Heidi Kenney, Nicole Licht, and Becky Stern – and more [images from Nicole Licht (right) and Heidi Kenney (left)]

SWEET notecard template and tutorial. Link.

Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne. Potter Craft (September 16, 2008).

Comforting and funny and real and honest, gorgeous and clever and wise. An excellent sequel to the Mason-Dixon first knitting book, this one carries on where that one left off – including silly and whimsical among serious and clever. Check out the Ravelry page for this book to get an idea of all the patterns – most of them seem to be in Ravelry with quite a few images from knitters who have made up the patterns.

With coats, sweaters, socks and dresses there is a lot to choose from and you may well want to knit them all. With the help of Kay and Ann’s usual wit and excellent explanations – try the Kiki Mariko – fair isle rug which is knit as a tube then steeked, and cut after felting. Or the Liberty rug, also knit as a tube and then steeked.The Golightly Gloves are fun – a new version of Blu baby pants is included in the book – but you can get the original pattern on knitty.com

LOVE this. I love her explanatation “I’ve never measured the size….I cut them according to my mood”. Awesome. I believe Mai also sews these by hand. Wowzers, neat work! Link.

Sweet, quick project. Link.

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