I wanted to do a follow up post of these little wet felted ornaments after embroidering and putting little loops on them:
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January Craft Leftovers Monthly Preview
Last month a strange thing happened at the printers and although I’m still not sure how it happened, I ended up with 60 extra copies of the Holiday issue. So I put it up in the shop for the first time by itself. It did really well! I enjoyed selling […]
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Craft Leftovers Monthly :: Holiday Issue :: In the Shop!
I told you I would be back after 4 hours (turned out to be more like 5) to say “Hooooooray!!!!!!” And that’s how I’m feeling! I’m happy to report I had my tires fixed and arrived home safely at about 1am. It was a good drive, nice and boring with […]
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How to :: Saving my Knitting :: Part II :: Picking up Dropped Stitches – Fast.
Knitting experiences, especially early on, are scared by all sorts of odd ball issues. During my year and a half (or so) at the Yarn Exchange I came to realize that dropped stitches were the number one culprit of all time. They would stop knitters dead in their tracks. And […]
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Pack-O-Fun
My original thought was to scan one of the old issues of Pack-O-Fun that my friend Deb sent me and make it into a pdf that you all could download for free. I decided it would be fun to include some research on the publication’s history and found that it is indeed a living history! I found Pack-O-Fun’s website here, it’s now being published by a company called Amos Craft Publishing. At fist I wasn’t sure if it was still the same magazine, but after digging around on the website, I became convinced that if it wasn’t the same publication exactly, it must have been strongly influenced by Pack-O-Fun.
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Uncopyrighted Blogs, Dollars, and the Studio
I have been reading a blog for awhile now called Zen Habits and was thrilled with (cough, woops! I am so sorry about the, um, gender mistake, I knew that too, it was seriously a typo, I was thinking too many things while writing, thanks for the correction Amy) his […]
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July Project List
They have put together a great collection of July crafts over at Tipnut. And it turns out they put a Crafters Medley together for June too, so if you missed it, make sure to check it out for some great project ideas. I am fairly sure I saw this artist’s […]
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Hello Nerds
This weekend from pretty much Thursday on was such a bust in the studio wise. We have friends in town for another friend’s wedding and Jason was in the wedding party so we had dinner to go to and he had to go super early saturday and we didn’t get […]
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Hump Day Post, we are getting closer to the weekend folks!
First off I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to Natalie over at CraftZine for posting about Craft Leftovers Monthly! And I also wanted to say “Hello” to anyone who may be new to the site. “How do you do? It’s nice to meet you.” If I could I […]
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Carrying Balance
So you all know of my delay by wii fit? Well, I changed plans that day for a regular tote type bag to a Wii Fit carry all. For all your wii fit on the go needs. I had a two fold motivation for making this bag carry all for my newly acquired wii fit. The primary reason was that I needed something to protect it from ferret teeth when it was not in use. They reallllly liked the little cup feet on the bottom of the board as well as all the rubber fittings anywhere else on it. Secondly I was heading on vacation and my friend had a wii and she wanted to try it out, so I wanted to have something to carry it all in along with my mario kart wheel and wiimote. Are you nerded out yet? Haha. So this was the end result of those two needs.
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Using Used Books Part II
So on monday I covered quite a few ways to get your hands on used books. I had an oversite though, book swaps! Here is a list of the book swaps I rustled up: Book Mooch ++ Bookins ++ WhatsOnMyBookshelf ++ Title Trader ++ Read it Swap it (uk) ++ […]
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Envelope Licking Good!
Avis, over at Avis Designs, shared this great recipe on how to make your own envelope glue. I love her statement “I have been making my own envelope glue for about a year now and I talked to a lot of people at the show about the recipe and how […]
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Midweek Get Over Hump Day with Cooking
This week I’m going to do something a little bit different, instead of a craft, it’s cooking (mainly because I don’t have access to my stash at this point, i’m still out of town! Cooking crafts will be the theme for the next two weeks. I think it will be […]
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Midweek Get Over Hump Day with To-do List Crafts
Well, with all of my new year resolutions and things to do and thing to get done and things to try, doing basically, I have been making a lot of lists. Grocery lists, exercise lists, reading lists, craft projects to do lists, things to buy, things to find, things to […]
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Welcome Home!
Welcome to the new home of Craft Leftovers! Make sure to update your rss feed address to https://www.craftleftovers.com There are several reasons why I have decided to move Craft Leftovers to its own server and whatnot, but mainly it is the ability to have static pages. There are now several […]
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Crocheted H2O Slinger
Edited in: Okay, I re posted the pattern with the corrections. I had added in an imaginary round in the base! Sorry about that. There were some other smaller errors that I fixed too (spelling and such). I also added in my gauge and the yarn that pattern was written […]
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++Welcome All ++ Crocheted Welcome Mat++
Nothing quite welcomes summer (or winter for that matter) guests like a handmade welcome mat. I’ve had a ratty looking carpet sample since I moved in and with all this crocheting going on I couldn’t help but whip up a new welcome mat with some craft leftovers that I had […]
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Springy Crocheted Head Wrap
I have been oogling head bands and other things like that to show off my new bangs. It’s the first time in years. There is a problem though, art supplies or hair accessories… hmm… of course the art supplies win out. So what to do about showing off these new […]