This looks like a great vintage sewing pattern resource. They are cataloging sewing books that are in the public domain. You can search by decade or by keyword or by type of sewing.
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Cool and hipster handmade movement
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This looks like a great vintage sewing pattern resource. They are cataloging sewing books that are in the public domain. You can search by decade or by keyword or by type of sewing.
What a great resource and very def. … Read More ...
Very cute heart hair clip tutorial from The Polka-Dot Umbrella by Jennifer!
The Polka-Dot Umbrella: Heart Hair Clips.
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This is genius in particular.
Man Crafts: tea duck | Dollar Store Crafts.
Dollar Store Crafts is a great website if you want to bang out a cheap but awesome craft. Amaze your friends!
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IlanioWear is giving away all their patterns for free! They make burner/dance club/costumy type clothing.
They’ve got garter belts, hot pants, dresses, coats, tops, you name it. You can go to their site to download the patterns and you can … Read More ...
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Flossie Teacakes provides a good tutorial for shirring here. I’m a big fan of shirring and use it for the back panel of a dresses instead of adding a zipper. Not that zippers a so hard or anything but … Read More ...
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Whether you are taking pictures of your crafts to sell or just to display on your blog having beautiful interesting photos of your crafts can be a big help to draw people in.
Elizabeth Carls has a nice blog post … Read More ...
I love this dollhouse that Sutton Grace has made for her daughter. She documents the process well in several posts (here’s the first in the series) and then also posts more detailed plans here. This doll house … Read More ...
Okay, this is not exactly a craft… but so useful and amusing for some reason and it could easily need a knitted cozy or something to make it more cheerful. Anyway, I often have the can’t hear my iPhone problem.… Read More ...
I got this link to a tutorial for making Star Wars snowflakes via EPBOT (I only just found that blog!). I don’t know the secret identity of the woman who made these, she must be guarding it closely so that … Read More ...
EPBOT has a great tutorial for making buttons out of coins. True, you need a Doming Block… which has to be the most spectacularly.. i don’t know… one of those things you think WOW! cool! and you do a few … Read More ...
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Did someone send me this as a suggested link? Well thank you if you did, I opened the link but lost the email.
Here is a tutorial in 3 parts detailing how to may your own cute chinese take-out purse. … Read More ...
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I’m trying to make something out of felt. I happened to have a bunch of that acrylic craft felt hiding out in my fabric stash and so I started out last night trying to work with it. It’s fine. cheep … Read More ...
I saw this on the Etsy Storque blog the other day. How cute is this chipmunk?!
This tutorial is by Miyako Kanamori and takes an ordinary knit glove and turns it into the cutest little chipmunk softie you ever did … Read More ...
I used to looove making cootie catchers when i was in elementary school. I admit I cooed with delight wen i saw this letterpress cootie catcher from Sycamore Press (I also like their subliminal posters for babies).
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Making cute seed packets is fun and it’s nice to make such a practical thing yourself. We let a bunch of our garden plants just go to seed this year so We had about a million tons of coriander, some … Read More ...