Jo Hamilton’s Crochet Portraits
Jo Hamilton creates these stunning portraits in crochet, based on photographs. They remind me of pastel drawing, but using stitches instead of smudges. (Thanks, Andrew Salomone!)
Yarncraft
Planning For Randomness in Quilting
Oh Fransson! shares a clever way to achieve a random look in quilt blocks with some careful planning. This process may be a bit fussy for some, but I think it’s a great way to make a random looking block that is actually planned in a way that a) ensures that different fabrics/colors are distributed […]
Travel Laptop Desk
I find using my laptop on my actual lap to be very uncomfortable. For one, it gets really hot. For two, if I have anything plugged in to the ports on the side, I can’t sit cross-legged for fear of bending the port or unplugging my external hard drive in the middle of an upload […]
Traveling Vine iCozy
Traveling Vine iCozy By Vickie Howell During these tough economic times the only traveling some of us get to do is across the world wide web. Thanks to cool gadgets like the iPhone, though, that internet trip can be taken anytime and anywhere! Every travel buddy clearly deserves proper attire — so if you’ve ever […]
Lunar Embroidery
Happy Apollo 11 lunar mission 40th anniversary, everybody! Beche-la-mer made this stunning embroidery piece using a topographical map of the moon as reference. Look at all those french knots! Via Mr. X Stitch.
How-To: Make Fabric Ranunculus
Erin from House on a Hill Road shares a tutorial for making fun fabric ranunculus for embellishing all kinds of projects.
How-To: D12 and D20 Dice Purses
Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories just upgraded her D12 handbag with a zipper, handle cord, and shape-holding panel stiffeners. You can learn to make your own D12 handbag with the free tutorial. She also made a D20 handbag with the same treatment!