Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Event: CHA Craft Supershow

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:19 AM PDT

image by CHA

CHA is a show for crafting retailers but during the show there is also an area open to the public for shopping, demos, workshops and more, visit the CHA Craft Supershow website to find out more details about the show in Chicago July 30-31st.

-Heather

Tutorial: Corner Bookmark

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Zaira-Ivette Sierra shows how to use up your paper scraps to create a use corner bookmark. Click here to go to tutorial.

Tutorial: Make a pattern from your favorite t-shirt

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 05:53 AM PDT

The perfect t-shirt can take years to find – the one that snugs to your body in exactly the right places, and floats away in just where it needs to.  And when you find that tee, you want one in every color.  The folks at CraftStylish show you how to make a pattern from your favorite tee so you can duplicate…

Breakfast Kabobs

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 05:34 AM PDT

Check out this clever idea for making to-go cereal: Cereal Kabobs. Find the how-tos HERE at No Fuss Fabulous.

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Clearance Sale at Scrapbook Trends

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 05:00 AM PDT

Northridge Media, the publishers of magazines like Scrapbook Trends and Cards, has put a number of their publications on deep clearance for a limited time. Click here to go to sale.

Free Photobooks from ArtsCow

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:00 AM PDT

ArtsCow, the online photo developer, has a great coupon code that you can use to get not one, not two, but up to eight free 8″x8″ photobooks! The code is valid until July 4th, 2010, but once activated lasts for 30 days.

Click here to visit their Facebook page for all the details.

Inspiration du Jour – Just 1 Bite!

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Get even more inspiration from her gallery and blog

Pretty In Pink

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:00 AM PDT

1. Sweet Pea Whipped Soap In a Jar by Clean Queen Soap Co.
2. Strawberry Rhubarb – Olive Oil Soap by Paradise Body Shop
3. French Macaroon Collection by KcSoapsNmore
4. Body Mist Pink Sugar by My Beauty Addiction

Tutorial: Trim and Ribbon Bracelets

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:42 PM PDT

Looking for something to do with those left over bits and bobs of trim and ribbons?

Jessica from Oh So Happy Together created this fun tutorial on creating bracelets from your left over scraps.  The bracelets shown in her picture here are perfect for the 4th.

Tutorial: Make a swimdress out of a knit mini-dress

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:00 PM PDT

Debbie from Squiggly Twigs Designs has a brilliant solution to the ever-agonizing and always-stressful bathing suit search.  This year, the “perfect” suit wasn’t actually a bathing suit at all, but a mini-dress that happened to be made from a polyester/spandex blend.  By adding weights to the bottom of the dress, she was able to turn it into a swim dress.  Find…

Tutorial: Large tote bag from a wrap-around skirt

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:53 PM PDT

Priti from Arm Candy For You shares a tutorial showing how to refashion a wrap-around skirt into a large tote bag.  I love how she reused the trim of the skirt to dress up the top of the tote bag!  Of course, if you don’t have a wrap-around skirt that you’re able to cut apart, you could easily repurpose fabric from…

Tutorial: Ribbon embellished bath towel with hanging loop

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:30 PM PDT

Shelley from House of Smiths created these pretty bath towels by adding a strip of ribbon across the bottom.  But she didn’t stop there, she also added a hanging loop to make it easy to hang from a hook or over a doorknob.  At our house at least, the towels spend more time hanging on the doorknobs than folded up neatly…

Glass Bead Making Tutorial – Making a Glass Jack Murrini bead

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Tutorials are always fun things to post since you all get something new to learn. Lori Greenberg, who used to write this blog, posted a tutorial on how to make a glass jack bead using murrini’s made by another Lori, Lori Peterson. Lori works with Kim Milan and the two of them make murrini for other bead makers to buy. Very cool things…

Project: Shaker Flowers

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:18 PM PDT

image by Jody Morrow

How pretty are these shaker blooms by Jody Morrow?? Visit her cleverly named Confessions of a Ribbon Addict blog for her step by step directions on how to make these fun flowers.

-Heather

Old is new

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:50 PM PDT

I tend to think of the sculptural effects in bridal and evening fashions as being a fairly new trend. This bodice by Pierre Balmain is more than 50 years old, proving that using stitching to “freeze” fabric folds and draping is definitely not new. The metallic threads used in this piece may have tarnished, but the style has not. Susan Elliott of Plays…

Sign your stitchery

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:40 PM PDT

Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint has some interesting ideas about signing your needlework. See what she has to say.

Embroidering a mixed-media surface

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:01 PM PDT

Hanna of iHanna’s Creative Space gives us a detailed look at her mixed-media work, Fly photo over an Inner Landscape.  She says,

I love this name! It goes so well with what I see in this embroidery; myself. The winding roads that my mind takes, with its creative ideas and bits of hesitation, passion, joy and mindfulness.

Hanna started with white cotton fabric, which…

How to stitch a tree

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:47 AM PDT

Kathy Shaw (Shawkl) is guess blogging on Needle ‘n’ Thread about several ways to create trees in stitch. I want to try them all! See the post.

Tattoos to embroidery

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:28 AM PDT

Sarah Terry of Guerilla Embroidery has created needleart from the sketches that served as patterns for her personal body art. Tattoo designs = ideal needlework patterns. Sarah’s work proves it. See more on her blog post.

Colette Patterns giveaway on Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:09 AM PDT

You may have seen the new undergarment patterns in the Colette patterns collection. They are very lovely! There is a new slip pattern and a new tap pants and bra pattern.

You can win one 25 dollar gift cert to Colette Patterns if you enter the one year anniversary contest on Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing! What a great prize!

Go…

Progress and Possibilities

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:46 AM PDT

by Laura Tabakman

The International Polymer Clay Association has posted a gallery of the winners from Progress and Possibilities 2010

Click here to explore the gallery!  So very much inspiration!

While you are there, check out this page regarding membership, and consider joining!

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Tutorials with Fimo

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:55 AM PDT

from Fimo.com

Did you know that at the Fimo.com website, they have several tutorials you can download in PDF format, including this colorful paisley bag charm?

Click here to check it out!

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Fun Felt Crafts for Kids tutorial

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:52 AM PDT

This is a fun and easy project for you and your kids and I love the colors they used. This is the perfect pincushion for a beginner sewer. The simple whip-stitched cushion is filled with batting and topped with a felt flower to give it the perfect shape.

What You Need
– 1 sheet of pink and orange felt
– Scraps of white…

Recycle smocking from a little dress into a cute headband

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:01 AM PDT

I usually post projects where something is sewn into a little dress. The clever crafter of the blog innocentia took the smocking section from her daughter’s baby dress and made a cute headband for her. What a great re-use for all that wonderful smocking. (Just what I need another excuse to hit the thrift store in search of little dresses). They…

Tutorial: Chunky Cuff

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:49 AM PDT

This is a tutorial, by P.S. I Made This, for a chunky cuff made of a jumbo hair roller and colorful accents. It was inspired by the Diane von Furstenberg Sahara bracelets and is a great look for a hot summer.