Pretty Quilled Cards Project Excerpt: Songbird Greeting
Try your hand at quilling with this gorgeous Songbird Greeting project excerpt from the new book Pretty Quilled Cards, by Cecelia Louie!
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Flashback: Quilting Happiness Project Excerpt: The Pocket Wall Caddy
Getting your quilting supplies ready for the new year? Try your hand at a beautifully simple organizer that you’ll use for years to come with this Pocket Wall Caddy project from the book QUILTING HAPPINESS: Projects, Inspiration & Ideas to Make Quilting More Joyful by Christina Lane & Diane Gilleland!
Tutorial: Paper Poppy
Gardeners everywhere are enjoying the best of summer’s blooms. For those of us who lack a green thumb — or a garden — paper artist Jeffery Rudell has a book of paper flowers projects that mimic the real thing. Here are instructions to make your very own Paper Poppy.
Quilting Happiness Project Excerpt: The Pocket Wall Caddy
Try your hand at a beautifully simple organizer that you’ll use for years to come with this Pocket Wall Caddy project from the book QUILTING HAPPINESS: Projects, Inspiration & Ideas to Make Quilting More Joyful by Christina Lane & Diane Gilleland!
Flashback: Criminal Crafts Project Excerpt: How to Make a Glue Gun Bandolier
I love crafts with a bit of an edge to them, and the projects in the new book, Criminal Crafts, from Shawn Bowman (a.k.a Miss Demeanor,) deliver edge in a big way. Criminal Crafts: Outlaw Projects for Scoundrels, Cheats, and Armchair Detectives is a sassy manifesto of 30 projects steeped in noir and espionage culture. […]
Book Excerpt: Digital Textile Design by Melanie Bowles and Ceri Isaac
Last week I reviewed a new primer for design, Digital Textile Design, written by Melanie Bowles and Ceri Isaac (Laurence King Publishers). This week we have an excerpt to share: a tutorial on making custom plaid.
Book Excerpt: Radial Raindrop Earrings from Kilobyte Couture
Kilobyte Couture is a fun new book written by Brittany Forks and published by Watson-Guptill. Brittany offers simple tutorials on how to make jewelry from easy-to-find computer components. In the introduction, Brittany writes: For most of my college career, I worked in the Electrical and Computer Engineering building. This gave me access to more geeks […]
