Posts Tagged ‘National Craft Month’
Craft Month 2011 – Day 13 – Record Bowls
13 days and strong! It’s Sunday, so I’m going to do another Simple Sunday craft. We will be making bowls out of old records. This might seem like a complicated thing to do, but this is possibly the easiest project I’ve ever done. To make sure that I did this right, and didn’t kill anyone with…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 12 – Lightbulb Terrerium
Today’s craft project is a terrarium. How is this a craft you ask? It’s a craft because I have created the terrarium base myself, out of an old lightbulb. For full instructions on the process, particularly taking apart the lightbulb, see this tutorial from the hipster home. I used my beading tools to do all…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 11 – Lace Flowers
I really like fabric flowers. Actually… that might be the understatement of the year. I LOVE fabric flowers…. So, today’s national craft month project is another style of fabric flowers. Or… two really. The biggest thing about today’s project is that I wanted to experiment with lace. I actually ended up with two very different,…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 10 – Hot Iron Travel Pouch
Today’s national craft month project can be done aas a sewing project, or a hot glue project. I did mine as a hot glue project, because I couldn’t get the layers of fabric through my sewing machine. This travel pouch was made for my travel size flat iron. It’s an amazingly simple project. For this…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 9 – Simple Elastic Waist Skirt
Today’s craft project is a my first sewing project for national craft month. I don’t normally do sewing projects, because I always seem to have issues with my sewing machine. It’s usually the tension, but this was such a cool project, that I had to try it. This skirt was actually really simple. I took…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 8 – Hair Wrap
Today’s project is a hair wrap. It as actually really simple to make… or it would have been if I hadn’t insisted on folding and ironing all of my fabric too avoid edges. I cut some fabric into 2 inch strips and folded it the way bias tape is folded – with the edges to…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 4 – Handmade Book
It’s already the 4th day of National Craft month, and I have to say I’m very proud of myself for having not missed a day yet. I’ve got a lot of things going on right now, but it’s really refreshing to sit down and craft for a bit in the evening. I’m very proud of…
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 3 – Flower Pins
Ok, so today, I am totally cheating, and taking an idea from Craft Snob. Today, I am making some flower pins with fake flowers from the store.
Read MoreCraft Month 2011 – Day 1 – Spring Wreath
It’s National Craft Month. In celebration of this, I’m going to make an effort to do lots more crafting this month… and blog about it. Hopefully this will get me back in the habit of crafting, and blogging… since I’ve been slacking in both areas lately. My first project is one that I actually did over…
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