HOW TO – Design a fabric pillow
Here’s a great tutorial on transferring a design from the computer onto a fabric pillow. In this case, it’s the cool drawings by Roy Lichtenstein. Link.
Yarncraft
IFF Hyperbolic Crochet Cactus and Kelp Garden at LA County Fair
The Institute For Figuring is at the LA County Fair this month showing the hyperbolic crochet cactus garden and kelp under the sea. See all the amazing photos! Link.
Make-a-Long Story Debuts
Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls debuts chapter one of her Make-a-Long story. The story tells about the first day of 3rd grade for Olive and Archie. Following the story is a set of patterns for sale via PDF so you can make your own Olive and Archie dolls. Link.
Knitty Fall issue out – Knit some fun dishtowels
Hurrah! The Fall issue of Knitty is out and there are lots of fun projects you can start on. These knit dishtowels look like a fun, quick project and you can welcome in the back to school days of “Study” and “Party”. Link.
Siggi Eggerston’s Quilt of Childhood Memories
Siggi Eggertson created this quilt as part of his graduation project from The Iceland Academy of the Arts. But look more closely at the details aside from the Michael Jordan centerpiece, Siggi incorporated all of his childhood memories in various figures and scenes that make up this quilt that is created from about 10,000 pieces. […]
Artist Rania Hassan and Her Knit Paintings
Rania Hassan Blog – goshdarnknit.blogspot.com Rania Hassan’s recent series of paintings incorporate a new crafty element–knitting. The paintings are a series of two women connected together through time or space with their knitting. Rania will have some of these paintings at her booth at Crafty Bastards on Oct. 1 in DC. See all 10 of […]
iPod sleeping bag
From the MAKE photo pool, crafty Lauren was inspired by this iPod shuffle cozy with instructions and decided her iPod needed a little quilted sleeping bag. The cozy quilt is made from an old fabric belt. From Lauren,”It only took me 20 minutes to make, and was almost like a little patchwork quilt where I […]
