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Free Crochet Pattern: Oscar’s Fingerless Gloves

First published January 05, 2007; Oscar’s Crocheted Fingerless Mittens was my very first crochet pattern every published on the blog. I still remember typing up the pattern in my college apartment all those years ago — and my complete delight when my new friend Diane shared a photo with me

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Crafty Business

Ep 14: Annual Review in an Hour

Before making a plan for the next year, (Ep 01 of Craft Leftovers), let’s take an hour to consider this past year. What went well? What could have been better? What just totally missed the boat? Do you try again next year or let it go? I’m taking you through

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How To: Fabric Stitchy Bookmark

One of the things I wanted to work on this year was reading. And I have. In fact, I’ve worked on it a lot. It seemed only right to make a new bookmark to mark my place. I’ve already read more books this year than I did in all of

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Off to BlogHer!

Hey there folks! I just wanted to pop in and say “hi” before I head off to the Windy City for the BlogHer conference. It should be so much fun! I’m excited and nervous and still in shock that I’m going! I’m almost packed, including: Handmade buttons by my friend

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Holy Moly 509!

Okay so sorry about the delay in the pattern download for the hook clutch. I exceeded my bandwidth! Well, you all exceeded my bandwidth! It’s being fixed now and everything should be a-okay soon. I’ve been storing the patterns on the domain space www.craftleftovers.com so you can just click to

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Shop Stuff

Hey folks!Okay, updates finished for now. Horay! I’ve added kits for the summer knit head wrap and some more for pencil clutches. See you all later! Have a good night and keep it crafty!

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fabric, patterns & tutorials

Hook Clutch


I’ve been carrying more and more hooks around and my bag and therefore losing them all over the place, travesty!… what to do? A clutch was definitely in order. A necessity for any hooking person.

Now this is for the hookers, but next week I have something in the works for the ones with poky sticks. So this is kind of a two parter just to give you a heads up.

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Hey Folks

I just wanted to let you know:I’ll be posting the pattern in the pm… no big important reason except that I lost track of time and it’s midnight and I need to work all day tomorrow at my “real” job. So I’ll finish it up and post it in the

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Summer Sale Time!

I just wanted to let you all know I’m having a summer sale in the shop! Buy 1, get the 2nd half off!This counts for all regular priced kits, handmade items, and reclaimed craft leftovers.Just choose “other” as the payment method and I will send you a revised invoice. Oh

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BlogHer Conference Chicago!

I just wanted to let you all know that I’m going to be participating in a panel discussion at the BlogHer conference in Chicago on Saturday, July 28th @ 1:30-2:45. You should totally come check it out. The other panel members are Kathy Cano Murillo the Crafty Chica, Natalie Zee

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Happy Birthday Contest!

Okay so today is the one year anniversary of Craft Leftovers! Woo hoo to sticking to something for more than a week! As I hinted at before, I’m going to have a contest and pass out some prizes for the winners! Basically scraps are the bane of my existence. Try

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fabric, patterns & tutorials

Sweater Mouse

I have a mountain of felted sweaters that I have collected from my work. For whatever reason, people don’t understand that we really can’t resell them for two reasons, it’s summer… and they are felted. But all the better for me because I get to take them home and find

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Knit Honey Bunny Repost

I will add the link in the original post as well. But I just wanted to let you know that I finished correcting the Honey Bunny pattern. Most of the errors were more along the lines of “this would be better phased like this,” but some were just dead wrong

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Medical Emergency

Well, I was able to get two new travel tissue covers in the shop, and there are still a hole lot of great kits available from last week. So go check it out. Unfortunately, I’m having a bit of a medical emergency with the two ferrets. Edited in: After Vet

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Bottle Cap Contest

“TerraCycle is looking for a creative use for bottle caps. As a part of our production process, we collect hundreds of thousands of soda bottles per year, many of which include a bottle cap. Over the years, we’ve collected quite a few. Help us find a use for these bottle

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Updates!

There are lots of new items up in the shop. A whole lot of new kits for travel tissue covers, a couple for pencil clutches, lots of reclaimed buttons, and heatable lavender pillows! Quite a few people have asked if I could offer this for the human compainions of our

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Update!

Alright, I’ve been looking at things and in the future and past that this week is over and still no shop update (mostly due to spending all of my time trying to get through 10 loads of laundry, I am such a filth). Okay so here is the plan. I

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