17 New Ideas from CraftGossip for Thursday, 14th of November

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Free Christmas Crochet Pattern - Chunky Crochet Poinsettia Pins!

This quick crochet project adds a festive, handmade touch to any store-bought item! Use these as embellishments, wearable pins or pop them oh your Christmas wreath or tree. The possibilities are endless. You can see the full crochet pattern here.

How to make geode inspired circle weaving art

I have been seeing geodes all over the place. I loved them as a kid. My dad had a collection of them. When I spotted these recycled cardboard art pieces with circle weaving in the center I was fascinated by the craft combo. Pop on over to the blog Small Hands Big Art for the step by step tutorial on …

Free pattern: Felt sloth Christmas ornament

Brooklyn Berry Designs has a free pattern you can use to stitch up this sweet little felt sloth Christmas ornament. He's so cute hanging from a tree branch! He's made from felt and assembled with hand sewing so there's no need to pull out your sewing machine. Click below for her free pattern: DIY Sloth Ornament, by Brooklyn Berry Designs

The Bojagi Shawl is a Great Knit Gift Option

Bojagi is the Korean word for a square fabric wrapper, often used these days to wrap gifts. A typical fold in the fabric makes the tie look like a flower, and that is the inspiration for the lace motif that is one of the sections of the pretty Bojagi Shawl from knitboop designs. The project uses lace, mosaic knitting and …

Name Letter Turkeys

These name letter turkeys are a fun and seasonally appropriate way to practice name recognition, or they would make cute kid-made place markers for the Thanksgiving table. Growing Book by Book has all the details and includes a fun game you can play with the feathers and let the child spell their own name. Head to her blog for all …

Faux Stone Air Dry Clay Bracelet

When we came across this Jewelry making tutorial I actually thought they were real rocks. I was surprised to learn they were made using air-dry clay. Such a fun little project and once you have the technique down you could use these faux stones for many different types of DIY projects including home decor. Faux rock Bracelet tutorial.

Needle Felting Video - Dolls

Learn to Make Needle Felted Dolls of Your Very Own! Are you ready to learn how to needle felt dolls that flex, bend and can stand on their own? If you’ve needle felted over wire armatures, you are going to feel liberated when you learn how easy it is to construct these sturdy, flexible needle felted dolls using only wool …

Using Embroidery Details on a Needle Felt Project

This tutorial combines needle felting with Embroidery. Why combine these two things? Embroidery allows you to add extra details and fine lines to a felting felted project. You will need to know some basic hand embroidery skills to be able to incorporate thee two mediums but it's well worth the effort to finish off certain projects and felted pieces. You …

Farmhouse Christmas Muslin Gift Bags

Hi there! For Christmas this year I decided to embellish some plain white muslin gift bags. First I stamped the bags with Christmas images, then added a bit of texture by sewing fabric scraps on the stamped images. My reindeer now has a scarf! Thanks so much for considering my project, Susan You can see Susans full tutorial here.

Etsy Feature - Happy Little Horse - Hobby horse PDF sewing pattern and tutorial

Make a Happy Little Hobbyhorse to go out and play with! This lovely lifelike stick horse is perfect for all aged children - just the right size for running, show jumping and even equestrian riding. All adventures you can imagine! INCLUDED > PDF pattern file to download (8 pages - tape together) > Patterns include the real seam lines and …

Felt Dream Catcher Ball Ornament

Transform your Christmas tree with this DIY Felt Ball Dreamcatcher Ornament. It's made with a wooden teething ring, felt balls, string, and twine; a simple beauty that you will love looking at this holiday season!

DIY Plump Partridges - Christmas Bird Ornament

I love a scrap fabric pattern and this one is all about the Partridge. These dimensional scrap fabric birds are adorable. You can use them on a Christmas wreath or simply hang them in your Christmas tree. I also think these would make cute scented gifts too. Add a few drops of essential oils to the base and you have …

Book Review - Modern Baby

Modern Baby - 6 Knitted Outfits to Warm Your Favorite Crawler Price From: $9.99 SKU# 7484C DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT Modern Baby: 6 Outfits to Warm Your Favorite Crawler (DIY, knit, yarn, sweater, onesie, hat) Dress that baby in hand-knitted warmth and greatness with Modern Baby! Inside you’ll find 6 flawlessly adorable knit onesie patterns with coordinating hats. We’d choose a favorite, but …

Book Review - Cookies By Leisure Arts

Cookies (Leisure Arts #56025) is a handy laminated collection of recipes for traditional family favorites and fun party treats. Approximately 8.5 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide, the guide folds out accordion-style with 12 panels of information and color photographs. Recipes include Santa Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Snickerdoodles, Pecan Crispies, Mom's Sugar Cookies, White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies, Old-Fashioned Gingersnaps, Favorite …

Napkin Die Cutting

This technique from Dave Brethauer really blew me away! His die cut shapes have an amazing texture to them and the reason is he used napkins instead of cardstock! And when he adds watercolors to them them puff a bit and add wonderful depth and dimension. I'm definitely going to give this technique a try! He's sharing this idea over on …

Sewing tutorial: Upcycled denim Christmas stocking

The gorgeous Christmas stocking is made from upcycled denim and fabric scraps, and accented with sashiko-inspired hand stitching. Vicky from Vicky Myers Creations has a tutorial showing how you can create an upcycled denim stocking of your own, and she's got a free pattern you can use to cut your stocking pieces. Click below for her free pattern and tutorial: …

Santa Layout

The traditional red and green colors and all the different patterns on this Santa page from Kylie really stand out against her white background. As does the white title she added over the photo. And I like how she used lots of accents to balance out her large photo. Visit the Simple Stories blog for a closer look. -Heather

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