New Comment on Tatting- Handkerchief edging

552_main_tatting-hankerchief Hello, I just love your pattern. I an using antique hankerchiefs and this is a perfect pattern. I have searched forever for this I fo have 2 questions. First of all I am needle tatting. I just could not get the FLIP down so the needle works out great. 1. On first line of directions you say to join to last picot made. How, if you havent made a ring yet? 2. At the end you have the word afend where it says * 3 times more ommitting last r. afend of last. . . I dont understand? What is afend. look forward to getting started. Cant wait to hear from you. Yours in tatting, JoAnn

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Dyed Buttons Tutorial

Sometimes, the little details make all the difference on a finished project. Taking the extra steps like Dyeing Buttons to the perfect shade is a perfect example. Plus, it’s really easy and you can reuse old buttons! I’m thinking of making a few colors for the kids to play with. Added to Sewing and Recycled [...]

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Craftzine [1].julies blog: Flower Hair Clip Tutorial. A nice and quick project to create some pretty folded-felt flower clips.Sophie-World: Rubik's Cube photo collage. This is really clever, let guests fill in their own photos with colored backgrounds to create a huge Rubik's cube for the table. [1] http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/06/how-to_cable_braided_necklace.html

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Easy BOO Halloween Wreath Tutorial

My front door is far from the road so I’ve learned to make bold holiday decorations like this easy Halloween BOO wreath. Not only is it striking in looks, but, like me, you might have most of the suppies already. Isn’t Halloween decorating fun! Added to Halloween Crafts Please vote by clicking: Like this Craft? [...]

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Guest blogger series | Hand printing on fabric

Karen Barbé is a textile designer and lives in Santiago, Chile. Her passion for crafting, textiles and everything nostalgic finds its space on her blog where she shows her works in progress and what currently inspires her. Her textile creations can be found on the her online shop. Hi there! I’m Karen, I’m a textile [...]

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Fantasy Project Runway Challenge, episode 5: the one with Heidi?s sneakers

What's going on here? HP [1] invited me to play along with the current season of Project Runway [2] and sent me a TouchSmart [3] computer to create my own designs. Along with creating designs I decided to write myself into the show. I am not doing well. This week the challenge was to design a look that could be worn with Heidi's sneaker design for New Balance. Everybody woke up to find running shoes, t-shirts and shorts and told to get themselves to a running track. This would be a team challenge (yikes) and the first three people to complete a lap would get to be team leader. Things got dramatic quickly in our fantasy Project Runway, once we got to the track Scott [4] announced that he was going to voluntarily leave the competition*. He had been hired as a head designer by Dior and struggled with the decision to leave but ultimately decided leaving the show was the best move for his career. Later I snarkily told the cameras he would do anything to get out of having to exercise. Here is my design: Here is how I imagine this going down: The design needed to incorporate suede so I ran around Mood trying to find the suede only to discover all the other designers had raided it. Oh no! I ended up only finding a tiny bit that hadn't already been purchased. I also bought a bunch of sports mesh fabrics and some stretchy matte black something. I originally created a sort of dress using the sports mesh but as I was pinning in to my form I found it was hideously shiny. When Heidi and Tim came around to see the progress Heidi said "It looks awful, like it should be with the outfits from the pet store challenge." Later in my workroom interview in front of the cameras I lamented "Heidi haaaaaates it!" I tossed all my mesh and was left with stretchy matte black stuff and stretchy but not too shiny red stuff, but not much of it. I spent too much time doing anything but sewing and later I would get one of those edits where the producers showed me fiddling with something and lots of cuts to other designers appearing to sideways-glance me. Luckily I didn't get the lazy-person music along with it. I created short yoga pants with suede strips wrapping around at different places. The top I created looked like a cropped tent tank from the front and has a drape back with more suede as y-shaped straps. I didn't have time to finish the hem of the shirt and between the time the model put it on and the time she walked down the runway the fabric began to curl and was a bit shorter than I meant. I was in the bottom three again. I was beginning to suspect that I'm only being kept around because I'm so willing to freak out on camera. I was told that I missed the mark with this challenge, that it looked too much like workout clothes. Nina liked the strips of suede, Michael Kors said the red and black together was a travesty and Heidi said it wasn't something she would wear. In the end I was kept because I displayed the ability to take direction and edit my look. Yay! I'm not off my (fake) show yet. Ok, back to my real life. I would just like to say that apparently when I am nervous about what to wear in a new situation I feel like trying on every single dress that exists in the Seattle area will somehow fix the problem, even though I already have a wardrobe for my trip to New York. Do you overshop when anxious? Previously: we took on episode one [5], the one with the bed sheets, episode two [6], the one with the dog toys, episode three [7], the one with stilts, and episode four [8], the one with Nina. * In reality Scott has too much going on to continue in my little PR sweatshop. He's doing all the normal busy work-life stuff as well as practicing to play in the wedding band of a friend. I'm a humanitarian so I let him go, but I didn't give him his last week of wages. Spoiler: Also in reality, well, the actual Project Runway show, one of the contestants announced they no longer wanted to continue right at the start of this episode so it seemed like an obvious place to write Scott off of my version of the show. [1] http://www.hp.com/ [2] http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway [3] http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/series_can.do;HHOJSID=LqJvTdGZsVn9...!532057686?storeName=computer_store&landing=desktops&a1=Category&v1=TouchSmart+PCs&jumpid=in_R329_prodexp/hhoslp/psg/desktops/TouchSmart_PCs [4] http://www.scottandrew.com [5] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/08/03/project-runway-hp-computers-and-... [6] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/08/08/hp-project-runway-challenge-epis... [7] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/08/18/hp-project-runway-challenge-epis... [8] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/08/31/fantasy-project-runway-challenge...

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TJ's Delivery Service: Trader Joe's Groceries to Your Door | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn. I can see really needing some Jo-Jos.What cooking shows other than the late Good Eats talk about why things are done the way they are? | Ask MetaFilter.Design Crush » Whiskey Stone Shot Glasses. Like those whiskey stones that cool without diluting. I think we need these shot glasses.Pop Star: Jennifer « bakerella.com. This is excellent, a monster cake with many cake pop eyeballs on stalks.The Emerald City « Tea & Cookies. I like this salad, and the lady who wrote about it!Imbibe Unfiltered: A New Hop Variety Pops in Stone?s Latest Brew.

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