Archives: November 2008

November 30, 2008

HOW TO - Glue-Set Zippers

Green Kitchen shares her tips on overcoming your fear of the zipper foot and shows us how she sews zippers into her various skirt projects using the glue-in method.

The most difficult part of zipper installation is making it look good. With the glue-set method you eliminate most of the challenges. The process becomes quite easy. The idea behind the glue-set zipper installation is to use adhesive to hold the zipper in place, while sewing, instead of pins. This allows you to top stitch the zipper without having to wrangle with the pins. And, since you are top stitching it into place, you have more control on how it looks on the outside, thus, more chances at zipper success.

HOW TO - Fabric Scrap Hairpins

Kayte at Craft Stylish shares a fun tutorial for using fabric scraps to make these colorful hairpins for all the ladies on your gift list.

CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw:

• Crocheted Ringbox
  
• Key Cozies
  
• A.M. Eye Candy - Freeform Embroidery
  
• Programmer's Cross-Stitch Pattern
  

A.M. Eye Candy - Quilt Pin Art

Kristy Hall has a post up featuring several different works of art created with hundreds (sometimes thousands) of pins. Featured above is Oil Spill by Lisa Kellner, which uses quilting pins. She showcases several artists and their pin work, so it's worth checking out her full post to see more amazing pieces.

November 29, 2008

HOW TO - Handmade Shower Cap

Sew, Mama, Sew! tips us off to Hoppo Bumpo's shower cap tutorial, perfect for those occasions when you need to keep your hairdo dry when bathing.

HOW TO - Bamboo Handle Bag

Little Birdie Secrets shows us how to turn bamboo handles and some upholstery fabric into a quick and easy tote.

Related:
• HOW TO - Simple Back-to-School Bags
• HOW TO - Bring Kids' Drawings to Life

CRAFT - The 2nd Year Box Set

Get four volumes of CRAFT year two, combined in a special edition collector's box! CRAFT: The 2nd Year includes volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, and volume 8 and is now for sale in the Maker Shed.

Update: For those of you who already own volumes 5-8, you can get just the slipcase for storing your issues!

HOW TO - French Knitting, Tools to Product

Marc @ MAKE found this amazing three-part tutorial about French knitting, the kind done with a loom. It goes over creating your own knitting loom and using it with recycled plastic bags to knit a reusable (and very strong) purse or grocery bag. Be sure to see all three pages!

From the pages of CRAFT:09:

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HOW TO - Recycle Bin Advent Calendar

Craftastica shares how she put together an advent calendar from completely recycled materials. I love that it's a green project that can be done with kids, setting a great example.

HOW TO - Dreidel Softie

Crochet by Faye shares a crochet pattern for making this stuffed dreidel softie you can use for decoration or for play.

November 28, 2008

HOW TO - Origami Mini-Wreaths

Domesticali shares a photo tutorial showing us how to make these sweet origami mini-wreath ornaments. I love that she used sheet music to make these--very festive yet elegant.

Coconut Cream Pie Oatmeal?

If you didn't get enough pie to eat yesterday, you can get your fill at breakfast time with the Baking Bites recipe for Coconut Cream Pie oatmeal. We live in an amazing time, people.

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