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Displaying embroidery in a hoop
Q: Why shouldn’t I just take a pair of scissors and hack off all the excess fabric that sticks out behind my wooden embroidery hoop? A: 1) Because you’ve gone to all this trouble to stitch something nice, it’s a shame to rush through the finishing like a knucklehead. 2) Because you are not a knucklehead. Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, fabric, Hell2Breakfast, sewing, thread
Tagged craft, Embroidery, embroidery display, embroidery finishing, Embroidery hoop, hoop display, Needlework, Running stitch
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Exercises in Imagination
Prompts can help you draw, but not if they come from some outside source. The only way to make something authentic is to use prompts taken from your own life, and having personal significance. This is a good way to stretch your imagination. Also, a great way to use up those sktechbooks and hoarded art materials. 
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Posted in art materials, mark-making, paper
Tagged Drawing, drawing exercises, imagination, parameters, prompts
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Ice-cream sandwiches part 2
Part 2 of the felt Ice-cream sandwich tutorial. Continue reading
Posted in felt, sewing
Tagged cookies, felt, felt food, felt sweets, ice-cream sandwiches, kawaii, Needlework, stitching
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Ice-cream sandwiches part 1: Biscuits
Part 1 of the Felt ice-cream sandwiches tutorial…making the biscuits. Continue reading
Posted in felt, sewing
Tagged Crafts, felt, felt food, felt sweets, ice-cream sandwiches, kawaii, Needlework, softies
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Homemade stripey giftwrap
Just something quick that you can do when you’re in a pinch and need to wrap up a present, so that it still looks nice. Continue reading
Posted in cutting & pasting, paper
Tagged Gift wrapping, Masking tape, packaging, Paint, Paper, parcels, present, X-Acto
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Fabric Bunting Beads
Nothing says “Fiesta!” like bunting. These are tiny stringable fabric bunting flags that you can make using stuff in your home. Another quick way to use up those teeny-tiny-but-too-pretty-to-throw fabric scraps. Continue reading
Posted in cutting & pasting, fabric
Tagged beads, bunting, cloth beads, Crafts, fabric beads, fabric scraps, flags, how to, miniature, necklace, recycled, Tutorial, wearable
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Low-brow patchwork
This is a favorite method of mine for putting together quick fabric patchwork pieces that I then use to cover my handbound books with. Want to give it a go? Here’s the how-to. Continue reading
How To : : Headbands (bookbinding)
Most frequently used by bookbinders today, the Headband with a Bead on the Edge features a two-color stripey band with little ‘beads’ of alternating colors that sit right on top of the paper and just underneath the headband itself. Continue reading
Posted in bookbinding, sewing, thread
Tagged craft, Headband, how to, multicolored, Tutorial
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Paper : : Pleated Flowers
Pleated flower craft tutorials abound on the internets, but there's a trick in this tutorial that will keep your flowers from coming un-pleated and falling apart like all the others! Continue reading
Posted in cutting & pasting, paper, Recycle That S#!T...
Tagged accordion book, Flower, Paper, Pleat, recycled
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