Turns out my laptop is officially KO, so the lovely hubby is building me a desktop, hopefully services on CraftBlog should resume within a week, this computer free time has lead to some awesome ideas which I’m very excited to share with you. Once again, sorry about the downtime, this thoroughly sucks

Still without a laptop and sewing machine so this is just a quickie while I boot Daniel off his computer, on the upside because of all the spare time freed up by not reading all your blogs everyday I have achieved one of my goals for 2009 and have learned to knit! Anyway, Ethan got in touch with me to ask me to put the word out and see if anyone had any “Leonie Linen” in stone, Spotlight were selling [...]

Morning All, It’s Dan. I’m Fern’s other half and I’m the one responsible for keeping the site up and running so Fern can supply you with your daily fix of crafty goodness. My apologies for this morning’s technical issues with no posts appearing on CraftBlog’s front page.  Something went astray with WordPress. It’s been fixed now and everything should be OK. In other sad news after a number of years of faithful service, Fern’s laptop has left us and gone [...]

Looking for a straight stitch industrial machine in Sydney?anyone have any ideas or recomendtaions? watching eBay but not much is coming up # Retweeting @veeanca: looking for an Australia (preferably Sydney) source of habotai silk… so far no success! – can anyone help Vanessa? # *winces* I haven’t checked my feedreader for just over 24 hours, I have 1,200 posts to read, I think I need to cull my blogroll! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Ooo, bargain! Use code AD3019 to get an additional 30% off sale fabric at fabric.com http://tinyurl.com/7tvk2n woohoo! # RT @definatalie: Ughhh Burda Style are going to start charging for more of their patterns. – Kinda bummed about this. Your thoughts?? # RT @Artfire: Pancakes you can cuddle with! http://tinyurl.com/78y7cd – eee, food with faces will never not be cute # I know it’s Martha (I’m not a fan) but these boxes look so cute http://tinyurl.com/9bhg3o via @oneprettything # W00t! My [...]

BurdaStyle announced this morning that they will be charging for the “official” patterns on their site, save for the basics and some smaller projects. As part of our plan to grow BurdaStyle and to better serve our members we will need to start charging for some of our patterns. BurdaStyle patterns developed from contest winners will still be free, as will some popular basics and smaller projects. Patterns uploaded by members will still be free, as will all the other [...]

Hoppo Bumpo wrote yesterday about prewasing and the pain of watching half her fabric vanish through shrinkage and fraying. The comments on the post almost became a confessional, so many crafters admitting to the world that they didn’t pre-wash, it was like a sewers anon meeting. So, inspired by this I created some buttons for those that laugh in the face of shrinkage, for those whose quarter seams don’t get unpicked when they become a little more than a quarter [...]

Retweeting @jlyarnworks: Cute penguin stitch markers. http://tinyurl.com/ayc5yj love these! # Ginger Monkey is hosting a stash swap, send out 2 FQs and get 2 back, open internationally http://tinyurl.com/77ghje # Just added JellyBean-JellyBrain to my feedreader http://tinyurl.com/9t3q2r reading pommy blogs makes me miss home! # Ever wondered how to make puff quilts? http://www.quilterscache.com/P/PuffQuiltingBlock.html wonder no more! # the top[ tutorials of 2008 http://thelongthread.com/?p=2021 what? where’s CraftBlog # remember b4 Christmas I said I ordered 30yds of fabric?It arrived today.OMG beautiful.should hopefully [...]

interesting idea, place ads on your twitter background for cash https://www.twittad.com/a/ln thoughts? Slightly better than magpie IMO # Ooops! I forgot show and tell yesterday! Any suggestions for this weeks theme? International fame is gaurenteed! # Awesome simply quilts on the How To channel atm, using kid’s art in quilts, some of the work is beautiful. # Not crafty related,other than the awesome drawing skills but I wanted to show off how superb my son is! http://snurl.com/9gtu5 so clever! # [...]

I have been doing a LOT of browsing around Etsy, MadeIt and Artfire recently looking for some prints to put up in our bedroom, of course, I start looking at prints and before I know it I’ve got about forty tabs open with everything ranging from prints to clothes to jewellery. Now I’m certainly no photography snob, but so many times I saw something that might have been fabulous, if only the picture was a little clearer, a little brighter [...]