Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Lookie what she made: Doll clothes from her daughter’s baby clothes

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:53 AM PDT

Lookie what Sachiko from Tea Rose Company and Tea Rose Home made!  She took scraps from her daughter’s outgrown baby clothes that she couldn’t bear to part with and made these heartbreakingly sweet clothes for her daughter’s dolly.  What a lucky little girl she has!!  Read more about this project at Tea Rose Home.

[photo from Tea Rose Home]

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Tutorial: Decorative pocket opening or bound buttonhole

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:30 AM PDT

Head over to Threads Magazine to find out how to make a decorative pocket opening or bound buttonhole.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Threads Magazine]

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Tutorial: Reconstruct a henley t-shirt to give it some kick

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:10 AM PDT

Lex from What the Craft shows how to take apart and reconstruct a henley tee.  She uses the button placket from a plain t-shirt but adds some fabulous printed knit fabric to give it some much-needed kick.  I love this refashion!  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from What the Craft]

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Giveaway and Tips: Finding Your Personal Card Style

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:02 AM PDT

image by Paper Crafts and Nina Bracette

Visit the Paper Crafts blog and take a little quiz to help you determine your own personal card making style. To help launch the release of their new magazine called ”Card Style” paper crafts is giving away a copy of the magazine, click here to leave a comment with your quiz score by 7/14  to be…

Eiffel Tower Cookie Sundae

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 05:50 AM PDT

Celebrate Bastille Day with an Eiffel Tower cookie sundae, a la Gusteau of the Disney flick, Ratatouille. To find the original recipe, click HERE, click on “downloads” and search for the little white, lidded jar on the left hand side of the kitchen and click. Or for a shortcut: Find the pdf with instructions HERE.

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Bastille Day Food Roundup

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 05:05 AM PDT

Find a collection of menus and tons of recipes from sauces and appetizers through dessert HERE at La Belle Cuisine.

Find breakfast, lunch, dinner and bread ideas HERE at AllRecipes.

And find a collection of French desserts HERE at epicurious.com.

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New: Teresa Collins Stamp Maker

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 05:00 AM PDT

Teresa Collins has just introduced her new stamp maker machine. You can use it to create customised stamp designs in just five minutes! Click here for more information

More about swaps

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 04:12 AM PDT

I linked to Swap-Bot and the Flickr swap page and this site, Swapdex is another great swap resource. She lists all the swaps she finds so you don’t have to go searching for them!

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Swapdex links you to many indie swaps on the web. It does a great job of cataloging blog based swaps and even puts them into swap theme and item categories…

Tutorial: Child’s Artwork Portfolio

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 04:00 AM PDT

Repurpose a large brown paper bag into a portfolio for your child’s artwork. Click here to go to tutorial

Inspiration du Jour – Summer Day

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Get even more inspiration from her gallery and blog

DIY: Rose & Mimosa Solid Perfume

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 02:00 AM PDT

The Natural Beauty Workshop shares instructions for creating Rose & Mimosa Solid Perfume that make wonderful gifts or special treats for yourself!

Book Review – MESS

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 08:48 PM PDT

Mess by Keri Smith.

ISBN 9780399536007 RRP $13.95

I was lucky enough to receive a Galley Proof for Keri’s new book MESS. My 2 year old grabbed the book and asked if she could draw in it. I had not even read the title and snapped back NO that’s mummy’s book.  She informed me it was a drawing book and proceeded to…

Review: Wienerdog Tricks downloadable patterns

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 07:48 PM PDT

I’ve recently had the pleasure of receiving review copies of a handful of patterns from Wienerdog Tricks.  Her pattern line includes the Cash Money Wallet, the Genuine Article Bag, the Good Writer Bag, and the Gorgeous Nerd Bag.  I love every single one of them!  (Her Genuine Article Bag just got placed right at the top of my must-sew list!!)

Her…

ISGB.org – Time for The Gathering Again

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 05:14 PM PDT

It’s that time of year…The Gathering of The International Society of Bead Makers. This year it will be in Rochester, NY on July 29 through August 1. If you haven’t gone to a Gathering and you’re  a bead maker, you must go. It’s short notice for this one unless you’re on the east coast. Ive been to a few and…

Tutorial: Calla lily embellished tank

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:36 PM PDT

Amy from Positively Splendid shares a tutorial showing how to make fabric calla lillies to embellish a tank.  Of course, if you’re indecisive like me and wonder if you’d always want your tank embellished with fabric flowers, you’ll be happy to know that they’re stitched down to a brooch that can also be worn on a sweater, a jacket, a purse, or…

Tutorial: Stylish short-sleeved t-shirt from a plain long-sleeved tee

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Ashley from Make It and Love It shows how you can transform a plain long-sleeved tee into a more stylish shorter-sleeved version with snap-up sleeves and a little pocket.   Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Make It and Love It]

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Decorate-my-home-part-18-flower-wall.hanging, by Ashley

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Ashley of" Make it Love it" is sharing her house décor redo and making everything herself.  She has all the projects under parts such as (part 1 etc.). The one that caught my attention is her flower wall hanging.  Although this is made from regular material I could see the flower in felt, other than Ashley's material choice these are…

Technique: Painting with Embossing Powders

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 01:38 PM PDT

image by Stampendous

Visit the Stampendous blog for instructions on how to achieve these gorgeous results on your stamped card by “painting with powder” using embossing powders.

-Heather

Water Rocket

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 01:05 PM PDT

Summertime is a great time to utilize the outdoors to help teach your children. Almost Unschoolers helps her children make a water rocket and they end up with great results…oh yeah, they also learned about Newton’s Law of Motion as well!

Tutorial: Framing fiber art

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Susan Brubaker Knapp of Blue Moon River shows us a different but effective way to frame fiber art by stitch-mounting it to a mat. I’ve got to try this! See the tute.

Free redwork pattern from DMC

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Well, this is embarrassing. I always assumed that the expression “turkey red” had something to do with the wattle on that famous American bird. But DMCThread’s Blog points out that “Redwork, also called Turkey Red, originated in the 19th century when a new, colorfast, reddish-brown dye was invented in Turkey.” The blog post offers not only a bit of history and a…

Hip Hip Hooray! A new site for kids’ parties. And Cupcake Accessories.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:49 PM PDT

I’m completely agog (is that the right word? eager? excited?) about this new website, Hip Hip Hooray, featuring ideas for kids’ parties. The site is from Suann Song (of here), with familiar names as contributing editors, Amy Atlas, Jordan Ferney, Maria Cooke, and Kate Headley. Visit the site HERE. And click HERE for a roundup of cupcake accessories. The kit shown is from…

Tea Cookies

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:33 PM PDT

I love love love this idea from Frost Me!: Cookies shaped like tea bags, dipped in chocolate and strung with tags. Find the idea, along with a roundup of other tea-themed party ideas, HERE.

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Inspiration: Judy’s Fabrications

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:32 PM PDT

These fairy slippers by Judy of Judy’s Fabrications make my heart flutter. So many gorgeous techniques and colors applied to such a tiny canvas! And fairy slippers aren’t all she makes. See more on Judy’s blog.

Update on raffia embroidery

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:23 PM PDT

Jeanine in Canada (Italian Needlework) has posted about raffia embroidery, a needlecraft that makes me happily nostalgic. Somewhere in the depths of my cabinets are some little bread baskets with adorable, plump vegetables embroidered in bright raffia (much like the petals on the bag in the top photo) — mementos of my childhood, I think. So I was surprised by Jeanine’s…