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Weekend Watch: Making in Mexico with Hacedores

Weekend Watch: Making in Mexico with Hacedores

An active makerspace in Mexico City partners with Make: to tranlate books into Spanish.

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All Points Patchwork Project Excerpt: Making Templates for English Paper Piecing

All Points Patchwork Project Excerpt: Making Templates for English Paper Piecing

All over the crafty internet right now, it seems like everyone is quilting. Hexagons, triangles, and all manor of fabric-fuelled geometry abound, and right at the center of all of that quilt-y goodness is the rise in popularity of English paper piecing! English paper piecing—EPP for short—is a hand-quilting technique that allows complete beginners and […]

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Flashback: BiblioCraft Project Excerpt: Radish Love Tote

Make a bold Victory Garden-inspired Radish Love Tote with this fun project from BiblioCraft: A Modern Crafter’s Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects, a new book from STC Craft, written by New York Public Library rare book librarian Jessica Pigza!

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Flashback: Make a Tailor’s Ham: A Project Excerpt from Mend It Better by Kristin Roach

Flashback: Make a Tailor’s Ham: A Project Excerpt from Mend It Better by Kristin Roach

I love that Mend It Better provides instructions for making some of the tools that are essential for mending and sewing. A great example: this highly useful tailor’s ham, a must-have for crisp pressing.

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BiblioCraft Project Excerpt: Radish Love Tote

BiblioCraft Project Excerpt: Radish Love Tote

Make a bold Victory Garden-inspired Radish Love Tote with this fun project from BiblioCraft: A Modern Crafter’s Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects, a new book from STC Craft, written by New York Public Library rare book librarian Jessica Pigza!

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