I’m a big fan of simple projects with stunning results. Here’s a nice example of such a project from Oh So Crafty. She took a old, scratched wooden salad plate, flipped it over to its “good” side, and applied leaves cut from contact paper to act as a resist. She then sprayed the wooden plate […]
The September class schedule is up at The Brooklyn Kitchen, a kitchen store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Some of them really caught my eye: September 8: Kombucha brewing with Kombuchman! September 9, 16, 23, 30: Knife skills September 10: Tasting tempeh September 15: Cake decorating September 21: Pickling with Bob McClure And that’s just some of […]
One of my favorite sections in Better Homes and Gardens Stitchery and Crafts is “Ideas for a Variety of Placements,” and that’s where I found my inspiration for this project. I love to use vintage dishes but it’s always hard to find vintage place mats and napkins that are in good enough shape to use for company. So I thought why not just make some?
The Purl Bee is featuring a beautiful and simple crochet project by Laura Normandin from Wren Handmade to make these lovely crochet bracelets.
Nicole at Craftapalooza has a pattern for sale to make this adorable apple pincushion.
I absolutely love this gorgeous pillow from A Ervilha Cor de Rosa, a fantastic Portuguese craft blog (she often posts both in Portuguese and English, or you can use Google translate ). Rosa gets a really soft but lovely contrast from using both right and wrong sides of the jean fabric.
From the CRAFT Flickr pool, user funnypolynomial writes: Quite a while ago I came up with the idea of creating an ASCII chart done as an old-school cross-stitched Sampler, I liked the juxtaposition of the modern and the old. I started the project (stitching the grid) but became discouraged by the slow progress. So I […]
