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Crazy Quilting Revisited

by domestika on November 2, 2008

The What If… Quilting Collaborative of about 40 keen quilters (and counting!) has just one mission:

“… to revisit the Crazy Quilting style and share our results. We are asking questions about technique and rules and style using the traditional Crazy Quilt framework as a jumping off point.”

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Stone Jewellery Jackpot

by domestika on November 2, 2008

Jackie is a medical technologist in Upstate New York. Her full-time day job is working in a hospital lab, but that’s not where her heart is — she’s hiking in the Adirondacks.
And she’s turning the inspirations of nature into jewellery, twisting wire around beautiful stones and pearls and beads to create striking bracelets, necklaces, [...]

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As for decorating your place for Halloween on the cheap —

“Decorate your home and yard with everyday items and almost-trash, like leftover candle stubs and toilet-paper ghosts,” the glossy magazines tell you.

Right. Not.

Who was the genius to suggest that lighted candles and paper products were a good mix? Now throw in gangs of rambling trick-or-treating kids wearing capes and robes and all manner of flammable costumes? Uh-uh.

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Halloween Treat Buckets

by domestika on October 4, 2008

Why send the kids out to collect Halloween treats in a tacky plastic pumpkin, when there are more attractive treat containers to be found — like these cheerful reusable buckets in felt or painted metal?
Reusable and durable items means that you won’t be shelling out for new treat containers, year after year. [...]

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The crafter known as Waterrose and I met online fairly recently (over at BenBarden’s place, I think). The embroidery felt cuffs she sells in her online craft shop grabbed me right away! So of course I roped her in here to tell a bit about how she got started with her unique craft — and [...]

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