Have you seen the “Sew an Amy Butler Inspired Bag” contest? There’s a ton of cool swag to be won (including a Janome sewing machine!)
You can check out the details in the first link and then go join the Flickr photo pool to see everyone else’s creations. Lots of fun!
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I’ve been hearing an awful lot of “I have no creativity” or “I can’t do that” or even “I’m no good at making stuff”. It’s come up in comments on this blog, in conversations with friends and even in the craft classes I teach. What happened that people are so afraid to experiment [...]
I wanted to make sure my cross-stitch readers had some fun projects for Valentine’s Day too!
About.com has this charming pattern available:
ABC Cross-Stitch has this lovely little rose pattern:
I love this heart from FindStitch:
Happy stitching everyone :-)
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The Lifestyles channel has had some busy little bloggers lately :-) Our lovely editor Gayla, has put together all of our Valentine’s cards & projects into one blog round-up.
Go check it out here!
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Take a few minutes to browse through contemporary embroidery artist, James Hunting’s website & gallery.
His work is spectacular & detailed… and definitely breathes some fresh air into embroidery :-)
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I’ve been hankering after a warm wrap or shawl that I could wear out in the evenings if I don’t want to deal with a full coat. I didn’t have anything in my stash that would work for it, so I just kept that wish in the back of my mind.
During the big New Year’s [...]
It’s cold enough in my neck of the woods that I need every little inch of duvet that I can pull out from underneath my dogs :-) For some reason, they think that it’s their duvet! It doesn’t help that my duvet slides around inside the duvet cover - and duvet covers aren’t quite warm [...]
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