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August 15th, 2008

free clip-art from Dover

I love Dover Publications books of iron-on embroidery transfer, clip-art and copyright-free designs! Did you know that they also offer free clip-art & patterns by email subscription?
To subscribe, just enter your email here.
As a bonus, once you subscribe, you’ll have access to several free pattern libraries immediately :-)

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March 3rd, 2008

win a copy of “Cake Art”

Deborah, from b5media’s blog “She Knows Parties” is giving away a copy of the book “Cake Art”! Cake Art is from the Culinary Institute of America and should be a fantastic addition to any baker’s cook book collection.
To enter and to check out all the details, click here.

Tags: b5media, books, contests, links

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November 14th, 2007

Grosgrain Style - book review

I mentioned a few days ago that I had received a review copy of John Loecke’s “Grosgrain Style”. I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and actually make something from the book :-)

Grosgrain Style is a great reference or project book, especially useful for beginning crafters. The instructions on how to tie […]

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November 5th, 2007

Grosgrain Style

The new book fairy has visited me today and dropped this off in my mailbox:

I’m going to try some of the projects and give you a full review in the next couple of days. I love working with grosgrain ribbon so this should be fun!
Tags: books, grosgrain-ribbon, john-loeckes-grosgrain-style

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July 3rd, 2007

any handbag designers out there?

I’m sure there are quite a few handbag/purse designers out there…  Now who wants to get their work accepted into a new book by Lark Books??

Lark Books is producing another “500″ book, this time it’s “500 Handbags”.  It’s being juried by Jay McCarroll, the winner of the first season of Project Runway!
The catch is you […]

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June 4th, 2007

summer sales

Sew Thankful is holding a huge summer inventory reductions sale, with deals on books, patterns and even some yummy embroidery threads!
Click here to check it out.
Tags: books, online shopping, patterns, sales

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June 1st, 2007

Ribbons & Trims

I got this in the mail yesterday… oh my goodness, too much fun!  It’s a new release from Crown Publishing, and written by Annabel Lewis, a designer & ribbon shop owner.
I’ve got an incredibly busy weekend ahead of me, but I’ll be trying a few projects from the book & will share them with all […]

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