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August 31, 2007

Smock Style Apron Tutorial

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Still Dottie has a pattern and tutorial for making this easy and super stylin' smock apron. Link.

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Modern Craft is having it's first sale this Labor Day weekend! Modern Craft sells all Japanesee imported fabrics ((Echino, Nani Iro, en plus de) and craft books. All fabric by the yard is 20% off as well as a discount off selected books. Sale starts Saturday at 9am PST and runs to 6pm PST on Monday. Read their blog post for more details. Happy shopping! Link.

Crewel Embroidery Wool

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Wool & Hoop is featuring some new Appleton crewl wool samplers. You can get them in in color groups featuring 10 skeins for $15 or get the entire palette of "The New Crewel" colors for just $50 for 40 skeins. Link.

CRAFT Pattern Podcast: Treeling from Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals

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This week's CRAFT Pattern Podcast is a featured pattern from the new book, Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals by Therese Laskey. This cute Treeling softie by Lynda Lye of Little Odd Forest is a simple little friend you can sew up from felt. You can even use up your old scraps to make up the multicolored leaves.
The Softies book features 25 patterns by famous crafters we've come to know and love such as Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane, Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls, Cassi Griffith of Bella Dia, and lots more! Besides with all the toy recall madness going on, it's it time to start making your own fun, safe toys? For more softies inspiration and projects, pick up the Softies book and visit Therese on the Softies Central blog.

Download this week's CRAFT pattern PDF - Link.

Subscribe to the CRAFT podcast and get this pattern and other CRAFT content delivered automatically via iTunes - Link.

Related:
Safe Toys You Can Make - Link.

Gradient Button Necklace

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I love craftlog's tutorial on how to make this elegant shell button necklace which is simple to make. It could also look fun with buttons of varying color or color tones. Definitely time to revisit my button collection! Link.

Make Your Own Pattern for In-Seam Pockets

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Nayantara on Burda Style has a complete how-to on making your own pattern for sewing in-seam pockets. Link.

Star Wars Book Bag

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Get ready for the new school year with this tutorial on how to make your own Star Wars book bag from Bonnie at Star Wars Kids. Link.

Using Pixel Fonts for Cross Stitch

When I first got in to cross stitch, I was frustrated with the limited text variations available to me in my mother's collection. I knew there had to be a way to make consistant, interesting text without making it up myself. Then it dawned on me: cross stitch is just a low-resolution image, so what better way to create legible, techy text than with pixel fonts! Pixel fonts are just regular fonts that are designed to be in a low-resolution environment. You can find them for free all over the 'net, and they install just as any other font. When your next cross stitch project comes along, print out your text or just work straight from your computer screen.

You can find a bunch of free pixel fonts here - Link.

August 30, 2007

Safe Toys You Can Make

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With al the recent scary news of the toy recall ( list here), now more than ever is the time to take back our children's safety in our own hands and have fun in the process by crafting our own toys!

To get you started, here's a roundup of some great toy projects you can make.

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CRAFT iPhone wallpapers

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A few people asked for our covers in iPhone wallpaper format (320 x 480) so here there are (MAKE, CRAFT and Halloween images) enjoy! To install them just put the set in iPhoto (Mac) or point iTunes to the folder they're in (Win/Mac). The first person to take a photo with one on their iPhone and puts it in the CRAFT Flickr photo pool gets a special edition MAKE Halloween - Link (zip).

Space Invaders Sweater

Geek Sugar points us to a delightful sweater by Etsy seller n2Imaginations, featuring Space Invaders! The scoring is shown along the sleeve. She also makes binary Christmas stockings (for which you can also buy the pattern).

Space Invaders Sweater - [via] Link.

Subversive Cross Stitch and So Charmed Jewelry

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Subversive Cross Stitched has teamed up with So Charmed to create the adorably cheeky cross stitch pins and necklaces. Each pin includes a vintage button and tulle bow and each necklace comes with a 36" satin ribbon tie. Check out the So Charmed site for more info. Link.