Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Video tutorial: How to create a ruffle

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:47 AM PDT

Chica and Jo continue their Sewing 101 video tutorial series with a video showing how to make a basic ruffle.  If you’ve never made a ruffle before, you’ll be happy to know that this is actually a fairly easy technique.  Once you master it, you’ll be adding ruffles to everything around you.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Chica and Jo]

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Shop: Studio Mo Carved Stamps

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:05 AM PDT

image by Studio Mo

And who doesn’t love Etsy?? This cool hand carved stamp is from Studio Mo on Etsy, she also has lots of other cool carved stamps, you can see them all by clicking here and checking out  her shop.

-Heather

Giveaway: Pencil Lines Sketch Book

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Anna Bowkis is giving two lucky winners a copy of the new Pencil Lines Sketches Idea Book. Click here to go to giveaway

Tutorial: Blooming Rose Embellishment

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 05:00 AM PDT

Amy of Posh Designs Scrapbook Store shows you how to create this flower embellishment with paper and mists. Click here to go to tutorial.

Inspiration du Jour – Home

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:00 AM PDT

Get more inspiration from her gallery and blog

DIY: Homemade Bath Salts

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:00 AM PDT

DeShawn Marie posted a recipe for homemade bath salts on her blog. Check out the simple recipe here.

Tutorial: Spring Ruffle Necklace

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 10:41 PM PDT

Jen over at Tatertots and Jello has just shared another great tutorial.  This one is a spring ruffle necklace, and she has provided lots of different looks for the project.

It is a great way to use up some extra fabric and supplies.

Tutorial: Silken Stands Bracelet

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 10:21 PM PDT

The latest tutorial from Ornamentea is now available here.

This tutorial is for a bracelet made with silk cords, charms, and crimp beads. I love the color combination on the one shown here with the shades of green and the warm brass.

But if you are ready to move on to other colors after St Paddy’s Day there are lots to choose…

Tutorial: Anthropologie Inspired Petal Earrings

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 10:12 PM PDT

Disney over at Ruffles and Stuff has done it again.  She has created an excellent tutorial on how to make these petal earrings which were inspired by earrings at Anthropologie.

And as with another of her tutorials, she has teamed up with her sister to provide kits so that you can make this project for yourself with even less fuss.

You can buy…

Tutorial: Washable stand-up fabric storage baskets

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:14 PM PDT

Jesse from Jezze and Jezzeprints shares a tutorial for making these fabric storage baskets.  Cardboard inserts help the sides hold their shape, but can be removed for washing. Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Jezze]

[via One Pretty Thing]

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Tutorial: Sew an iron cozy to transport a warm iron

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:05 PM PDT

How many times has it happened that you’ve taken your sewing machine and iron out for a little sewing get-together, only to realize that it’s time to go and your iron is still hot?  LuAnn from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full (love that blog name!) shares a tutorial for a heat-resistant iron cozy.   Get the how-to.

[photo from May Your Bobbin Always…

Tutorial: One new appliqued t-shirt from two old tees

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 07:48 PM PDT

Naomi from Omi Creates tells how to make a new shirt out of two old tees.  If you’re careful with the placement of your pattern pieces, you won’t have to hem the bottom of the shirt or the sleeves. YAY!  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Omi Creates]

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Wet Canvas and Handmade Glass Beads

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 07:05 PM PDT

Have you visited Wet Canvas lately? It’s a web site devoted to all kinds of different arts techniques and includes a good deal of information about glass and glass bead making. Here’s a link to a thread of bead makers showing off their work. But what sent me there was an email today of their newsletter that included a how-to photograph your…

Tutorial: Marshmallow Fondant Cupakes

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Find an absolutely perfect tutorial (as in, step-by-step photos, all the lovely details, easy how-tos) on crafting homemade cupcakes with homemade marshmallow fondant icing and homemade flower toppers HERE at Peas Love Carrots. Coincidentally, I juuust posted my own marshmallow fondant, too, but Peas Love Carrots blows my tutorial out of the water!

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Learn these stitches from SharonB

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:24 PM PDT

SharonB of PinTangle blog continually showers us with new stitches and variations that beg us to try them on our embroidery and crazy-quilt projects. Here are just four recent beauties. Get the details and see more photos from Sharon’s linked posts.

(1) a combination of cable chain and wheatear stitch
(2) crested chain stitch
(3) beaded hedebo edge
(4) chain stitch worked in acrylic knitting yarn

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Free pattern: Tatted cameo

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Pamela (aka TotusMel) of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense generously shares her original pattern for this tatted cameo. Gorgeous. Get the pattern.

Tutorial: Felt brooch

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:48 PM PDT

Laura of Bugs and Fishes by Lupin walks us through her process for creating a felt brooch. She says,

This is a slightly unusual “how to” as it’s not just a tutorial for making the flower brooch shown in the pictures but more a beginner’s guide to making things with felt, which will cover lots of things I get asked by my blog…

RGB or hex = DMC

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:43 PM PDT

Have you seen a design on the web that you’d love to replicate in embroidery? Or maybe you’ve created and colored an image in your graphics software, and now you’d like to produce it in thread. Mollie of Wild Olive has found the perfect resource for you. Colors are specified for web pages and graphic images as RGB or hex values. Mollie has found a…

Simplify cutwork with Fiber Etch

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:33 PM PDT

Threads is touting the use of Fiber Etch to simplify the process of creating cutwork embroidery. A Threads blog post says,

Using synthetic embroidery thread, you can embroider a plant-fiber fabric. Just apply a thin layer of Fiber Etch to the fabric that you want to remove, let it dry, rinse or brush it out, and watch the fibers disappear.

Brilliant! Get all the details…

Tutorial: Fly and fern stitches

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:25 PM PDT

KERRYKATIECAKES explains the difference between fly stitch and fern stitch and shows us how to do both. Shoulder shoulder bellybutton. That’s all I’m saying. See the tute.

St. Patrick’s Day Foodie Roundup

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:14 PM PDT

A final roundup of green edibles:

  • cut four-leaf clovers from basil leaves with how-tos from Food Mayhem
  • make St. Patrick’s cake balls with Gourmet Recipes
  • make an ice cream and stout float with Martha
  • and break tradition with green fried chicken at Serious Eats

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New Release: Invoke Arts Stamps

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:05 PM PDT

image by Invoke Arts

Invoke Arts rubber stamps has loads of new wood mounted rubber stamps, including fairies, lots of birds, backgrounds, Frida Kahlo, tickets, frames, backgrounds and more. I love the artsy collage looks of their images! Click here to see what’s new.

-Heather

Clever Pie Vents

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 12:54 PM PDT

How have I not heard of this brilliant, centuries-old tool? The second I saw these blackbird pie vents on the kitchn I started singing “four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie”.  The kitchn provide a link for resources to buy HERE.

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Everything Green on Sale Today Only!

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Today, March 17th only, everything green is on sale at Martha and Mary! Click here to go to sale.

Free patterns: St. Patrick’s Day

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 11:29 AM PDT