Craft & Design

From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.

Introduction to Sewing Scissors

Introduction to Sewing Scissors

Want to give your collection of sewing scissors an upgrade, but find yourself feeling a bit intimidated by all of the choices? Check out this Cultivating a Scissor Arsenal post from Gertie at Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing! She explains the what-shape-and-why for her favorite sewing scissors, and the comments are filled with even […]

Evelin Kasikov’s Stitched Portraits

Evelin Kasikov’s Stitched Portraits

Evelin Kasikov’s embroidery work has been featured on CRAFT before because her projects were so incredible, and her new work, called The Portrait Project, is no exception. The Portrait Project is a set of 10 stitched portraits, all based on the same grid. Images are created by using different stitching methods and thread thicknesses. The […]

Serpent Twins

Slinky Sleek Serpent Twins

Once upon a time, there were two serpents, Jormungand (Midgard) and Julunggul (Rainbow), who slithered between two worlds, “the old world that needed and revered them and the present which has shunned such monsters as fears metamorphosed into mythical form.” Dark and with the power of fire, Jormungand winds it way through the landscape. Bright […]

How-To: Fruit Balloons

How-To: Fruit Balloons

Simplicity breeds awesomeness, as is evident in this fantastically brilliant and whimsical project from Brittany Watson Jepsen on Oh Happy Day. We’ve been planning a “fruit party” for a few years now, the gist is that everyone brings an exotic fruit and we, the hosts, provide a batch of the more common kinds. Who doesn’t […]

How-To: Polka Dot Flats

How-To: Polka Dot Flats

DIY shoe projects are popping up all over the crafty internet right now, and as a girl who likes her shoes to be anything but average, that’s a trend I can definitely get behind! Ready for today’s dose of shoe-tastic inspiration? Add a pretty pixelated pattern to a pair of ballet flats with this polka […]